South Africa’s Department of Science and Innovation and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have jointly launched a new fund to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship in the country’s tertiary education sector. The Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), as it is called, is intended to support those, at the country’s universities and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges, who seek to be innovators and tech entrepreneurs. The ambition is to grow the fund to a total of R1-billion. It will function by means of calls for proposals from interested parties, who have suitable expertise and programmes and who will work with universities and TVET colleges. The first two calls for proposals will be launched within the next two months.