|
|
 |
| DIRECTORIES | |  | Research output keywords | | | INNOVATION | |
|
|
|
|
Barnes, J. & Lorentzen, J. (2003) Learning, upgrading and innovation in the South African automotive industry. (Unpublished discussion paper for the School of Development Studies, UKZN, November).
|
|
|
Blankley, W. & Moses, C. (2009) How innovative is South Africa?. South African Journal of Science. 105:15-18.
|
The article compares selected results form the South African Innovation Survey 2005 with those of EU member states from the fourth round of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS4). About 54% of South African industrial enterprises engaged in innovation activities between 2002 and 2004 compared to an average of 42% for European countries. South African enterprises reported that the share of turno...
|
|
|
|
Blankley, W. & Moses, C. (2009) Main results of the South African innovation survey 2005. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
|
Innovation is widely acknowledged as being key to economic growth and progress, particularly as innovation by business enterprises is vital in ensuring their future success and competitiveness in an increasingly competitive global market. With this in mind, the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (CeSTII) was commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) to...
|
|
|
|
Blankley, W. & Moses, C. (2008) Main results of the South African innovation survey 2005 (covering the period 2002-2004). (Commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), August).
|
The Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (CeSTII) was commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology to undertake a national innovation survey based on international best practice. This report presents the main
findings of the South African Innovation Survey 2005, covering the period 2002-2004. Where available, comparisons are made with the results of the Fourth ...
|
 Download full text
|
|
|
|
Blankley, W. (May/June 2007) Preliminary results of the South African innovation survey, 2005. South African Journal of Science. 103(3/4):190-192.
|
Innovation surveys indicate the extent of innovative activity in the business sector and provide information on various other measures such as different sources of information for innovation and collaborative partnerships in innovation activities. The Innovation Survey in South Africa was the first official innovation survey undertaken in the country and was based on a random stratified sample ...
|
|
|
|
Blankley, W., Moses, C., Ritter, M. & Kahn, M. (2007) South African innovation survey 2005: highlights. (Commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, April).
|
The booklet contains the main highlight results of South Africa's first official innovation survey undertaken by CeSTII on behalf of the Department of Science and Technology. The survey covers the period 2002-2004 with quantitative data for 2004. The South African Innovation Survey 2005 is comparable to the fourth round of the European Community Innovation Survey (CIS4) and is based on a rando...
|
|
|
|
Blankley, W., Scerri, M., Molotja, N. & Saloojee, I. (eds). (2006) Measuring innovation in OECD and non-OECD countries: selected seminar papers. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
|
It is widely accepted that innovation is key to economic growth. Countries where research and innovation are high on the national agenda are best suited to prosper in the knowledge-based economy. Conversely, countries whose economies are mainly dependent on natural resources and basic industries tend to lack competitiveness and flexibility in adapting to changing global trends. The Organisation...
|
|
|
|
Blankley, W. (2006) Measuring innovation in South Africa. (Paper presented at the Exhibition and Conference on Innovative South Africa, Brussels, 26-27 June).
|
|
|
Blankley, W. & Ritter, M. (2006) Progress with the South African Innovation survey 2005. (Commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, March).
|
|
|
Blankley, W. & Kaplan, D. (2006) South Africa's first survey of innovation in the manufacturing sector and recommendations for the next survey. In: Blankley, W., Scerri, M., Molotja, N. & Saloojee, I. (eds). Measuring innovation in OECD and non-OECD countries: selected seminar papers. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 217-226.
|
|
|
Blankley, W.O. & Booyens, I. (2010) Building a knowledge economy in South Africa. South African Journal of Science. 106(11/12):Online.
|
Over the past two decades the economies of leading countries have increasingly evolved into knowledge-based economies, relying less on traditional resources such as capital and labour for wealth creation and growth. It is generally accepted that the creation of new knowledge, innovation and technological change drive progress in such countries. Economic activities based on new knowledge stimula...
|
|
|
|
Booyens, I. (2011) Are small, medium- and micro-sized enterprises engines of innovation?: the reality in South Africa. Science and Public Policy. 38(1):67-78.
|
This paper examines the relationship between innovation activity and firm size in the South African context. Based on data from the National Innovation Survey (2002-2004) the paper looks in particular at the nature of innovation by small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs). The main finding is that the innovation rate of SMMEs is relatively high, with small enterprises reporting the hig...
|
|
|
|
Braun, H., Kanjee, A., Bettinger, E. & Kremer, M. (2006) Improving education through assessment, innovation, and evaluation. Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
|
How is progress toward educational goals, both local and global, measured? Although assessment is most often seen as a tool to measure the progress of a single student, it also allows individuals, communities, and countries to track the quality of schools and educational systems. In theory, publicly available data enable policymakers to craft effective policies and students and parents to bette...
|
|
|
|
Cartwright, A., Gastrow, M., Lorentzen, J. & Robinson, S. (2009) Limpopo Integrated Innovation Strategy (LIIS). (Prepared for the Limpopo Provincial Government and the Department of Science and Technology, July).
|
This paper aims at identifying a way for Limpopo province to harness the power of innovation to meet its economic and social development goals.
|
|
|
|
Clark, A. (2005) Resource-based technology innovation in South Africa: innovations in South Africa's off-grid concession programme. (October).
|
This case study deals with South Africa's off-grid concessions programme, an important component of the government's National Integrated Electrification Programme. This programme was aimed at offering access to photovoltaic solar home systems in deep rural areas, pending the supply of grid electricity throughout the country. Like the other case studies in this volume, it is aimed at deepening a...
|
|
Download full text
|
|
|
|
Clark, A. (2004) Innovation in resource based technology clusters, Phase One: case study: Innovations in South Africa's off-grid concession programme. (Prepared for the Department of Science and Technology, June).
|
|
|
Gastrow, M. (2010) Engaging the industry: innovation in South Africa's motor manufacturing sector. HSRC Review. 8(4):22-23.
|
Automotive manufacturing is South Africa's largest manufacturing sector and contributes substantially to our GDP and exports. Since 1995 the sector has been integrated into global value chains, and has had to become more productive, more competitive, and more technologically intensive. MICHAEL GASTROW studies the factors that determine competitiveness in this sector.
|
|
|
|
Gostner, K., Roberts, S., Clark, A. & Iliev, I. (2005) Resource-based technology innovation in South Africa: final report. (October).
|
|
|
Gostner, K. (2005) Resource-based technology innovation in South Africa: mines and medicine: Lodox low-dosage x-ray. (October).
|
The first section describes the events that led to the appearance of Lodox in US emergency rooms. It highlights critical factors that impacted on the development of Lodox. In so doing it provides a context for the analysis that follows in the second section. The second section turns attention to these factors and analyses the way in which they drove and facilitated the process described in the ...
|
|
Download full text
|
|
|
|
Hart, T. (2005) Local innovations using traditional vegetables to improve soil quality. IK notes. 79:1-4.
|
|
|
Hart, T.G.B. (2005) Visit to Italy for the purpose of attending 18th Symposium of the International Farming Systems Association at the Salesianum, Rome. (27 October to 7 November).
|
|
|
Hemson, D. (2006) Innovation and training in community appraisal. (Paper presented at the Presentation and discussion with EWS, 15 December).
|
|
|
Kahn, M., Vlotman, N., Steyn, C. & Van der Schyff, M. (2007) Innovation policy and higher education in South Africa: addressing the challenge. South African Review of Sociology. 38(2):176-190.
|
The South African Department of Science and Technology Ten Year Plan seeks to move the system of innovation toward growing a knowledge economy. It sets ambitious targets for scientific production (PhD graduates; world share of scientific publications) whose attainment in part rests on the effectiveness of the universities. The paper commences with a thumbnail sketch of the system of innovation....
|
|
|
|
Kahn, M. (2006) Blue skies above Africa. Research Africa comment. 5:
|
|
|
Kahn, M. (2006) Blue sky II - blue skies above, everyone's in love, up a lazy river...with or without a paddle?. Innovation analysis bulletin. 8(3):10-11.
|
|
|
Kahn, M. (2005) Measuring and mapping innovation systems in Africa. (Presentation to the Globelics Conference, Pretoria, 1 November).
|
|
|
Koen, C. (2007) Postgraduate student retention and success: a South African case study. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
|
This monograph is the posthumous publication of the first part of Charlton Koen's PhD thesis in which he examines the main factors influencing the retention and success of master's students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Sadly, he passed away before completing his analysis of the extensive data he had collected, which was to have formed the second part of his doctorate.
The firs...
|
|
|
|
Kruss, G. (2012) Channels of interaction in health biotechnology networks in South Africa: who benefits and how?. International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development. 5(1/2):204-220.
|
The promotion of university-industry linkages in developing countries is contested, given high levels of poverty, inequality and human
development needs. A recent research trend offers new insights that can shift the terms of debate and inform differentiated policy approaches in a more contextually appropriate way. The focus is a framework to analyse the benefits and risks associated with diff...
|
|
|
|
Kruss, G. (2011) How do universities develop interactive capabilities to promote social innovation and development in South Africa?. (Paper presented at the "Scientific Knowledge Economy and Community Renewal: Opportunities and Challenges for South Africa", Scientific Workshop, East London, 7 March).
|
|
|
Kruss, G. (2010) How do universities develop interactive capabilities to promote social innovation and development in South Africa?. (Paper presented at Globelics 2010 8th International Conference: Making innovation work for society: linking, leveraging and learning, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1-3 November).
|
|
|
Kruss, G. (2010) How do universities develop interactive capabilities to promote social innovation and development in South Africa?. (Paper presented at the "Collaborate to Innovate" workshop, University of the Western Cape, 8-10 November).
|
Current debate aims to reconceptualise the changing role and missions of the university in development, and to research the ways in which universities can leverage their knowledge resources to the benefit of a broader range of social partners than firms communities, government, or civil society in general. However, there is insufficient empirical and research evidence to inform how universities...
|
|
Download full text
|
|
|
|
Kruss, G. & Lorentzen, J. (2011) The South African innovation policies: potential and constraint. In: Cassiolato, J.E. & Vitorino, V. (eds). Brics and development alternatives: innovation systems and policies. New York: Anthem Press. 163-189.
|
South Africa is one of the strongest economies in Africa and key to the economic and political development of Sub-Saharan Africa. But the central thrust is one of considerable economic potential, with significant constraints imposed by the legacy of the past. South Africa has potential to compete in the global economy but socio-economic developmental demands require critical efforts for long-...
|
|
|
|
Kruss, G. (2010) Towards dialogue: higher education's role in innovation and social engagement. Review of Education, Skills Development and Innovation (RESDI). June:3-6.
|
New policy in South Africa, after 1994, reflecting global trends, proposed that higher education institutions, as crucial sites of knowledge production and technological innovation, should become more responsive to social and economic needs.
|
|
|
|
Kruss, G. (2008) Balancing old and new organisational forms: changing dynamics of government, industry and university interaction in South Africa. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management. 20(6):667-682.
|
The paper considers changing triple helix relations in South African context after 1994. The organisational form of university-industry partnership, stimulated by government incentives, is emerging. However, old and new organisational forms, shaped by a tension between financial and intellectual imperatives, co-exist in the shifting relationship between university, industry and government. The ...
|
|
|
|
Kruss, G. (2006) Creating knowledge networks: higher education, industry and innovation in South Africa. Science, technology & society. 11(2):319-349.
|
This article focuses on a new organisational form that is emerging in the South African context - knowledge networks of higher education, industry and intermediary partners. The article focuses on seven case studies in two high-technology fields and their related industrial sectors - biotechnology, being relatively new, and new materials development, being relatively mature in South Africa. I...
|
|
|
|
Kruss, G. (ed). (2006) Creating knowledge networks: working partnerships in higher education, industry and innovation. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
|
The new science and technology framework has challenged higher education institutions in South Africa to create research partnerships with industry, to contribute to growing a national system of innovation. Through detailed case studies, this monograph explores how one new organisational form typical of the knowledge society, the network, is currently being created in practice, in all its compl...
|
|
|
|
Kruss, G. (2005) Financial or intellectual imperatives. (Working partnerships in higher education, industry and innovation). Cape Town: HSRC Press.
|
In 2004,the HSRC's research programme on Human Resource Development launched the Working Partnerships Series to explore the extent to which the networked practices that are believed to characterise the knowledge economy have indeed begun to penetrate South African higher education and industry.
One of four publications in the series, the focus of this study is to map the scale and form of r...
|
|
|
|
Kruss, G. (2005) Harnessing innovation potential?: institutional approaches to industry-higher education research partnerships in South Africa. Industry & higher education. 19(2):131-142.
|
|
|
Letseka, M. (2005) Government incentivization of partnerships in South Africa: an audit of THRIP and the Innovation Fund. Industry & higher education. 19(2):161-168.
|
|
|
Letty, B., Hart, T. & Buscher, B. (eds). (2007) ProlINNOVA South Africa: promoting local innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural resource management: catalogue of local innovations 2006/07.
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. (2011) Food on the table and disease at the door: insights from low-income countries and regions for measuring innovation. Innovation and Development. 1(1):77-89.
|
An important discussion regarding innovation indicators concerns their relationship with theory. It is theory that tells us something about cause effect relationships and other patterns, which in turn suggests what indicators to collect for which purpose. Therefore, as theory advances, indicator methodologies can be expected to change as well. If they do not, they may become irrelevant or victi...
|
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. (2011) Knowledge, science and interactions in South Africa's wine industry. In: Giuliani, E., Morrison, A. & Rabellotti, R. (eds). Innovation and technological catch-up: the changing geography of wine production. London: Edward Elgar Publishing.
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. & Mohamed, R. (2011) Where are the poor in innovation studies?. HSRC Review. 9(1):24-25.
|
The poor hardly feature in innovation studies, yet could really benefit from a new look at how their innovation systems work, write JO LORENTZEN and RAHMA MOHAMED.
|
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. & Mohamed, R. (2010) ... to each according to his (or her) needs: where are the poor in innovation studies?. (Paper presented at Technical change: history, economics and policy. A conference in honour of Nick van Tunzelmann, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, 29-30 March).
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. (2010) Ghana's innovation system: what's wrong with it, and why. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development. 2(2):106-133.
|
STI are expected to play a key role in lifting Ghana to middle-income status by 2020. Ghana is not alone in wanting to promote STI as a means to socio-economic development, governments throughout Africa have been making political commitments in support of the knowledge economy. The paper provides a micro-assessment of the Ghanaian national innovation system (NIS) and in particular of the role...
|
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. (2010) Low-income countries and innovation studies: a review of recent literature. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development. 2(3):46-81.
|
This is a review of the literature on innovation in the world's poorest countries, published between 1997 and 2008. It asks what role innovation plays in these countries, and how much and what exactly we know about it. It shows that traditional innovation studies, in particular, has rather neglected the know income countries. Most research addresses problems concerning agriculture and health...
|
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J., Muller, L.B.B. & Manamela, A. (2010) A technology gap analysis of leading firms in Cape Town. (Paper presented at the Globelics 8th International Conference: "Making Innovation Work for Society: Linking, Leveraging and Learning", University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1-3 November).
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. (2009) The geography of innovation in South Africa: a first cut. International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development. 2(3):210-229.
|
The geography of innovation in the developing world is poorly understood, both because certain spatial economic data are difficult to access or do not exist at all and because the existing information is rarely submitted for analysis at subnational level, where the relevant literature would conceptually and empirically inform the research questions. This paper makes a contribution to addressing...
|
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. (2009) Learning and innovation: what's different in the (sub) tropics and how do we explain it?: a review essay. Science, Technology & Society. 14(1):177-205.
|
Much innovation research views catch-up as a process that at low levels of development starts with imitation, and whose end point is innovation; and it posits that different stages require different frameworks to explain what is going on. In its more extreme versions it adds a horizontal to the over-time differentiation and demands that individual or groups of countries be appreciated for their...
|
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. (2009) Learning by firms: the black box of South Africa's innovation system. Science and Public Policy. 36(1):33-45.
|
South Africa designed its post-Apartheid science and technology policies in the mould of the national innovation system approach. Yet policymakers knew little about the determinants of technological upgrading in latecomer firms either in the developing world more generally or in South Africa specifically. These two blind spots made for a veritable black box hiding the engines of innovation.
Po...
|
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J., Robbins, G. & Barnes, J. (2007) The Durban auto cluster: global competition, collective efficiency and local development. In: Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, B. & McCormick, D. (eds). Industrial clusters and innovation systems in Africa: institutions, markets and policy. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. 189-210.
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. (2007) Regional and local innovation systems. (Commissioned by NACI, March).
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. & Mollgaard, P. (2006) Competition policy and innovation. In International handbook on industrial policy. Bianchi, P. & Labory, S. (eds). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 115-133.
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J. & Barnes, J. (2004) Learning, upgrading, and innovation in the South African automotive industry. The European journal of development research. 16(3):465-498.
|
|
|
Lorentzen, J.P. (2004) The knowledge of numbers: S&T, R&D and innovation indicators in South Africa. (Paper prepared for School of Development Studies Conference Reviewing the First Decade of Development and Democracy in South Africa, 20-22 October 2004).
|
|
|
Michie, J. (2003) The institutional underpinnings of the unemployment-inflation relationship: a review paper. (October).
|
The Phillips curve depicted a trade-off between unemployment and inflation. As the economy grows faster and unemployment falls, it becomes easier for workers to gain wage rises and for firms to raise prices ? either to pass on increased costs or even to
raise profit margins. This is particularly so if bottlenecks occur because of insufficient capacity. If there is a shortage of a particular ty...
|
|
Download full text
|
|
|
|
Moses, C., Sithole, M., Labadarios, D. & Blankley, W. (2011) South African innovation survey: main results 2008. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.
|
This report presents the main findings of the South African Innovation Survey 2008, covering the period 2005 - 2007. It presents key indicators describing the activities and patterns of innovation in the business sector in South Africa, including resources and investment provided for innovation in enterprises; the types of innovation activities carried out; the level of novelty of innovations (...
|
|
Download full text
|
|
|
|
Ntombela, S. (2010) Towards inclusive education and training: developing the South African system for the challenges of change. Journal of Educational Studies. 9(1):69-81.
|
Schools are by nature generally rigidly structured hierarchies and tend to operate counter to innovation in general. Some scholars have also argued that schools and those who inhabit them find it difficult to change their thinking and practice. In the light of these assertions, the critical question then is: how can stakeholders be assisted to reach a similar understanding of an innovation an...
|
|
|
|
Petersen, I. (2009) Innovation in sub-Saharan Africa: competitiveness, capability and achievements in South Africa, Nigeria and Uganda. (April).
|
The Research on Knowledge Systems (RoKS) 2006 competition provided funding that has opened up a new field and delineated the contours of a research agenda in relation to the changing role of the university in sub-Saharan Africa. Governments in developing countries are increasingly imitating developed countries, by adopting policy, incentives and programmes aimed to promote linkages between uni...
|
|
Download full text
|
|
|
|
Pogue, T.E. (2007) Moblility of human resources and systems of innovation: a review of literature. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
|
In any system of innovation, the constituency of participating individuals plays a large role in determining its strengths and weaknesses. A fundamentally mobile resource, individuals are influenced by a complex nexus of factors prompting their movements. This book is a review of the literature on the topic and is designed as a resource for anyone interested in analysing human mobility and the ...
|
|
|
|
Pogue, T.E. & Rampa, M. (2006) Innovation in resource-based technology clusters: investigating the lateral migration thesis: an analysis of hydraulic technologies in South Africa's mining sector. (Commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, February).
|
|
|
Reddy, V. & Khan, N. (2006) Required physical infrastructure to attain the vision of the NSI: secondary school education component: "hands on and minds on". (Study commissioned by the National Advisory Council for Innovation, November).
|
|
|
Roberts, S. (2005) Resource-based technology innovation in South Africa: Gunric and RGR valves. (October).
|
Historically, valves have been sourced from European producers, especially German firms. This reflects industrial capabilities, coupled with the importance which the mines and other local customers attach to reliability. The repair of these valves by
South African firms, coupled with immigration of engineers from Europe (particularly Germany) provided the impetus for local production. A combin...
|
|
Download full text
|
|
|
|
Roberts, S. (2005) Resource-based technology innovation in South Africa: Multotec Process Equipment: dense medium cyclone for materials separation. (October).
|
Multotec Process Equipment's main motivation for developing firm-specific capabilities and making ongoing innovations is the local demand from industries, principally mining, for equipment to meet their specific needs. This demand has provided the base for export capabilities. At present, approximately 30% of output is exported. The main markets are Norway, Russia and Australia. The firm is al...
|
|
Download full text
|
|
|
|
Setswe, G., Peltzer, K., Banyini, M., Skinner, D., Seager, J., Maile, S., Sedumedi, S. & Gomis, D. (2007) Report and policy brief from the 4th Africa Conference on social aspects of HIV/AIDS research: innovations in access to prevention, treatment and care in HIV/AIDS, Kisumu, Kenya, 29 April-3 May 2007. Sahara J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 4(2):640-651.
|
This report and policy brief summarises the key findings and suggested policy options that emerged from rapporteur reports of conference proceedings about the following themes:
1. Orphans and vulnerable children
2. Treatment
3. Prevention
4. Gender and male involvement
5. Male circumcision
6. People living with HIV/AIDS
7. Food and nutrition
8. Socio-economics
9. Politics/Policy
|
|
|
|
Stoop, W. & Hart, T. (2005) Supporting farmer innovation: bridging the gap between scientific theory and the diverse farming practices of smallholders. (Paper presented at the HSRC Winter Conference, Birchwood Conference Centre, Boksburg, 27-28 July).
|
|
|
Wilkinson, I. (2009) Innovation comes in small packages. HSRC Review. 7(4):23.
|
Small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs), a central policy focus area in South Africa, specifically with regard to economic growth and employment creation, have the potential to become engines of innovation. But lack of funding hampers the sector's innovation development. Irma Wilkinson believes that current SMME policies and programmes need to be broadened to stimulate innovation.
|
|
|
|