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(Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2007-03)This article presents part of the findings of the Research Marketing and Technology Commercialization Survey conducted in South Africa during 2005 and 2006. Part IV (Q4) of this survey was designed to examine nine drivers ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2016-08)The purpose of this paper is to review, summarize, and critically assess the academic studies that have dealt with either the causal relationship between energy consumption and growth or the determinants of energy demand ...
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An overview of the electricity externality analysis in South Africa within the international context (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2010-11)Externalities are an integral part of South Africa’s electricity power generation sector as the country is highly dependent on coal as the primary fuel source. While there have been significant efforts to account for the ...
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(Elsevier, 2019-03)This study assessed the inventive activity through patents registered by South African researchers worldwide using the WIPO database. South Africa is the most prolific producer of patents in the African continent. In this ...
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(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2011-11-01)Intellectual property rights systems are important policy instruments in the armoury of governments. They have the potential to have favourable or adverse consequences for the relevant national system of innovation, ...
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(Routledge, 2018-05)The paper aims to define the optimal thresholds of publications and Research and Development (R&D) expenditure and to investigate their impacts on patenting in OECD and BRICS countries. To do so, we use a dataset of 25 ...
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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2009-05)This article aims to identify and analyse the inventive activity of South Africans as it is manifested in the form of patents. Patents are used internationally as indicators of national and corporate inventive activity, ...
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(Springer, 2014-03)Scientific co-authorship of African researchers has become a fashionable topic in the recent scientometric literature. Researchers are investigating the effects, modes, dynamics and motives of collaboration in a continental ...
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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002)This paper gives a review of the theory of technology transfer mechanisms. It is intended as an overview for practitioners. Technology transfer is defined and the technology transfer process discussed. Various technology ...
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(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2012)This article reports the findings of a scientometric analysis of South Africa’s research performance during the period 2000–2010. A multitude of government incentives were introduced during the period and their effects ...
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(Taylor and Francis and NISC (Pty) Ltd., 2016-06)A scientometric analysis of selected research priority areas in South Africa was done using the Web of Science database for a period 2002 - 2012. The performance of the country in the areas of biotechnology, energy, ...
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(Springer, 2010-10)This article reports the results of a scientometric assessment of the Southern Africa Development Community countries. The National Science Indicators database of Thomson-Reuters and the online ISI Web of Knowledge are ...
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(Water Research Commission, 2014-10)Regular assessment of the state of water research and development (R&D) in South Africa is a necessary component of science policy and successful R&D implementation. Among others, effective R&D has a direct impact on water ...
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(Springer, 2011-09)The influence of the National Research Foundation’s (NRF) rating system on the productivity of the South African social science researchers is investigated scientometrically for the period from 1981 to 2006. Their output ...
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(Springer, 2012)This document provides an analysis of scientometric research in South Africa and it discusses sources of growth in the country’s research literature in general. South Africa is identified to have limited expertise in the ...
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(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2008-09)The quality and quantity of research publications are used as benchmarks to monitor the performance of South Africa's national system of innovation. The indicators are pertinent to the policies of the Department of Education, ...
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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2006)The article makes the point that instrumentation is critical to the science and technology infrastructure. Furthermore, it reports the results of a relevant national survey. Information is available for three groups – ...
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(Springer, 2009-05)This article reports for first time the state of science and technology in the African Continent on the basis of two scientometric indicators - number of research publications and number of patents awarded. Our analysis ...
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(Economic History Society of Southern Africa, 2007)This article traces the causes of tension among stakeholders in carrying forward the MIDP from a historical perspective. It reviews the genesis of the programme and industry performance under the dispensation. Achievements ...
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(Adonis & Abbey, 2009)South Africa has since the dawn of democracy progressively built the science and research support components of the National System of Innovation (SANSI) with consistency. At national government level, science and technology ...
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