EDHE ABSA Entrepreneurship Innovarsity 2026
The competition is designed with four distinct categories, providing opportunities for diverse groups of innovative students to participate and benefit. The competition invites studentpreneurs to submit their entries in one of the following categories:
- Category 1: Existing Business – Tech – Designed for businesses that primarily create and develop innovative technology.
- Category 2: Existing Business – Social Impact – Focuses on businesses that leverage research, innovation, and technology to address social, environmental, or community challenges while generating profit.
- Category 3: Existing Business – General – Invites businesses with a proven track record of success, established products or services, and align with one or more of the 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Category 4: Commercialisation of Academic Research – Targets Master’s or PhD entrepreneurs who transform scientific and technology-driven experimental academic research into viable commercial ventures. Research should have been accepted by an authorised South African academic or research institution.
- Category 5: Innovative Industries – Focuses on ideas that challenge the status quo, break conventional boundaries, and demonstrate transformative, future-focused thinking.
Applications close 20 May 2026.