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“I think the end game for CapeRay and for me would be that CapeRay continues to exist, perhaps as a research and development enterprise where we develop new products that we ultimately license off or that get incorporated into other businesses.”
“What’s missing in South Africa is that we don’t have enough serial entrepreneurs, people who have done it two, three, four times. If you start a business the first time around, you need help.”
“We are expecting the first product, the balloon, to be ready for the first world in early 2017. Our first valves will be ready second half of 2017.”
“I don’t think our vision is to replicate the original Silicone Valley. You could never do that. The key drive is to build the ecosystem.”
“We put a very strong emphasis on hi-tech, and indeed, that is precisely what our broadband rollout has been about. We want to enable ICTs, Information and Communication Technologies, as the bedrock of why services work so well in the Western Cape,” explains Helen Zille, Premier of Western Cape.
“The Western Cape is number one on every single indicator, including economic growth, and including employment. So we do rank number one, and it’s because we’ve put an enormous effort into building a capable state,” says Helen Zille, Premier of Western Cape.
“We are definitely expanding into Africa.”
“I think the government’s biggest challenge is going to be funding it adequately. Do we have the tax base in this country to fund such a program?” asks Dr Kit Vaughan, CEO of CapeRay.
“There are people with good ideas; here in the Western Cape we have four institutions of higher learning, each of which has an engineering faculty and two of them have medical faculties and so in the medical device space there is every opportunity for new products to be developed,” says Dr Kit Vaughan, CEO of CapeRay.
“I write a weekly blog about various activities in my field including more generally about medical devices and I have compared the Western Cape as a medical device destination with other areas in the world,” says Dr Kit Vaughan, CEO of CapeRay.
