comprehensive assessment of the innovation system of SouthAfrica, focusing on the role of government, and providing concrete recommendations on how to improve policies which impact on innovation performance, including R&D policies. Post-apartheid SouthAfrica has succeeded in swiftly opening its economy to [...] is key to a sustained improvement of living standards based on productivity-driven growth. This review assesses the national innovation system of SouthAfrica from this perspective, identifying areas and means for improvement with an emphasis on the role of public research organisations and policies.
dates of 1 and 5 December 2014, with the general theme of “Global Change Research in SouthAfrica: towards integration across disciplines, sectors and scales”. The Global Change Grand Challenge (GCGC) is now in its 4th year of implementation and together with related NRF/DST programmes on global change issues [...] the first NRF/DST conference was held. The main purpose of this conference is to bring together the diverse global change research community in SouthAfrica in order to share recent research progress and outcomes across the broad scope of the Global Change Grand Challenge programme. This will provide [...] discussed with the research community present at the meeting. Furthermore, several new national, regional and international initiatives focused in southernAfrica have been or are being established in the area of global change research and it will be useful opportunity to consider how these could be better
and operating the SKA telescopes in Australia and SouthAfrica, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. In March 2019, seven countries became the initial signatories to the Convention: Australia, China, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, SouthAfrica and the United Kingdom. Others are expected to join [...] ion level or are represented as observers: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, SouthAfrica, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Moreover, there are eight African partner countries : Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagaskar [...] effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope, with eventually over a square kilometre (one million square metres) of collecting area. Both SouthAfrica ’s Karoo region and Western Australia ’s Murchison Shire were chosen as co-hosting locations for many scientific and technical reasons, from the
amended by Act 27 of 2001) and is the principal agricultural research institution in SouthAfrica. Its core mandate as defined in the Act is to act as the principal agricultural research institution in SouthAfrica so as to conduct research, drive research and development, drive technology development
The South African Survey of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at Publicly Funded Research Institutions is the inaugural baseline survey, which was conducted as an initiative of the Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA), the National Intellectual Property [...] required to track overall activity in Intellectual Property (IP) management and Technology Transfer (TT) at publicly funded research institutions in SouthAfrica. The study period starts in 2008, the year when the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act (IPR Act) was [...] An oversight committee consisting of members from SARIMA, NIPMO, DST and CeSTII was established to assist with adaptation of the instrument to the South African context.
Hosted by the European Union (EU), the African Union (EU) and the Republic of SouthAfrica, the first ever AU-EU Innovation Festival will take place on 15 June 2023 in Cape Town, SouthAfrica. This Festival will run as a large hybrid, whole-day event, which could be attended both in person- and online [...] entrepreneurs’ insights and perspectives on the AU-EU Innovation Agenda, and will feature pitching sessions and exhibitions of innovations from both Africa and Europe. This Festival will occur only 2 days after the adoption of the AU-EU Innovation Agenda at the second AU-EU Research and Innovation Ministerial
Das PEESA-Projekt hat das Ziel, die Zahl hochqualifizierter Experten im Bereich der regenerativen Energien und die Qualität der Hochschulbildung im südlichen Afrika zu erhöhen. Aufbauend auf ein im Ra
Inhalt der Veranstaltung: Unterstützung der SADC Region bei der Entwicklung eines regionalen Forschungs- und Innovationsprogramms im Bereich erneuerbare Energien mit Fokus auf Solarenergie. Sondierung
The Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 10-Year Research Plan has been developed to ensure the successful implementation of the 2005 National Nanotechnology Strategy. The plan identifies programmes to be p