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Browsing Institute for Technological Innovation (ITI) by Type "Postprint Article"
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(Elsevier, 2016-09)Being a semi-arid country with limited fresh water resources and also a fossil fuel based energy intensive country, South Africa encounters the added pressure of allocating limited water resources. Roughly 90% of electricity ...
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(Elsevier, 2015-03)Energy-environmental impacts associated with non-renewable electricity generation have attained critical importance in South Africa. These impacts are quantified in order to obtain a monetary cost relative to local ...
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(Elsevier, 2013-06)In this paper we test whether the use of a set of technology management tools (TM-tools), a specification of alliance portfolio capability, influences the relationship between alliance portfolio diversity and a firm's ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)The South African bioeconomy strategy did not clearly articulate the measurement framework to monitor the implementation of the strategy. This paper provides an analysis of bioeconomy patents, the most prolific organizations ...
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(Springer, 2020-10)This document provides an analysis of bioeconomy research in South Africa and it discusses sources of growth in the country’s bioeconomy literature in general. We performed bibliometric analysis as indexed in the Web of ...
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(Springer, 2015-01)This paper examines the causal relationship between the economic growth and research output of the BRICS countries (i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) for the period 1981–2011. Essentially this study ...
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(Elsevier, 2010)Rankings of higher education institutions are important for students, research administrations, industry and academics. A number of rankings are published internationally, most of which aim to identify the top universities ...
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The development impact of solar cookers : a review of solar cooking impact research in South Africa (Elsevier, 2007-03)Solar cooking is often considered “a solution looking for a problem”. Solar cookers have long been presented as an interesting solution to the world's problem of dwindling fuel wood sources and other environmental problems ...
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(Association for Information Science and Technology, 2015-08)The causal relation between research and economic growth is of particular importance for political support of science and technology as well as for academic purposes. This paper revisits the causal relationship between ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-06)Improvement of energy efficiency has been accepted as one of the most cost-effective approaches towards sustainable economic development and reduction of the continuously increasing energy consumption internationally. South ...
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(Springer, 2009-01)Fluorine research has been identified as a priority area in South Africa and the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA) is embarking in an effort to expand its hydrogen fluoride and aluminium trifluoride production ...
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(Elsevier, 2007-12)The inventive capacity of South African universities and researchers is investigated through analysis of university patent applications. Patent applications to the South African Patent office from 1996 to 2006 are used as ...
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(Springer, 2013-04)An increasing number of researchers have recently shown interest in the relationship between economic growth of a country and its research output, measured in scientometric indicators. The answer is not only of theoretical ...
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(Elsevier, 2009)The present study investigates whether activities related to the patenting of inventions impede or are in conflict with the academic performance of university professors, particularly the publication or the production of ...
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(Elsevier, 2010-08)There is growing pessimism among certain academics and policy scholars that the conduct of innovation-related activities (e.g. patenting, transfer, and commercialization of scientific or technological development) may ...
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(World Scientific, 2012-02)Investment in state of the art machinery and tooling and in R&D is widely seen as a prerequisite for achieving industry competitiveness in the long term. Investment-based incentives that countries provide for these inputs ...
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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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(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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(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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