The Ekurhuleni BizSpark Incubation Centre is one of the enterprise development initiatives housed within the business centre which is realised through a tri-party partnership agreement between New Generation Mindset, Microsoft Bizspark Network and the City of Ekurhuleni, aimed at collaborating on the software incubation programme as follows:
Recruitment of 60 individuals and SMMEs who will participate in the incubation process for a period of 12 months for individual participants and three (3) years for selected SMMEs at the Microsoft Bizspark Kempton Park Centre. The programme will provide:
- Technology, software and programming mentoring;
- Business development support;
- Links to BizSpark community;
- Skills development of unemployed graduates;
- Software and business development training;
- Microsoft internationally accredited certificates for training successfully completed; and
- The funding to provide incubation and training services to selected individuals and small businesses even if they do not qualify as set out in the above clauses.