University of Pretoria unveiled an incubator program on Tuesday called Tuksnovation to foster business ideas from postgraduate students at the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology.

Tuksnovation’s launch is supported by South African government bodies Small Enterprise Development Agency, Department of Small Business Development and Department of Trade and Industry.

The initiative, named after the university’s colloquial name Tuks, has been set up to help create sustainable enterprises and jobs by commercialising more Pretoria technologies and supporting industrial…