Silicone Cape: A Catalyst for Tech in the Western Cape
“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.”
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“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.”
Joaquim Alberto Chissano, former President of the Republic of Mozambique, shares his vision for the development of agriculture and agroindustry in the country.
“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.
“The revolutionary part is the ability to combine the two technologies. Traditional mammography relies on x-rays and that has been around for forty or fifty years, while ultrasound has also been around for forty or fifty years,” explains Dr Kit Vaughan, CEO of CapeRay.
“CapeRay is a spin out company from the University of Cape Town. It spun out 6 years ago. The focus of the company is the detection of breast cancer; we have developed imaging products that are specifically geared towards women who have dense breast tissue,” says Dr Kit Vaughan, CEO of CapeRay.
Manuel Vieira, Chairman of Meridian32, gives an overview of the group, which operates in segments such as real estate and infrastructure, technology and knowledge.
A revolution in breast imaging. An innovative dual-modality imaging system that integrates full-field digital mammography and automated breast ultrasound in a single platform.