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Institute for Technological Innovation (ITI): Recent submissions
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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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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2014-03)We present the direct and indirect contributions of higher education institutions in South Africa to certain macroeconomic indicators such as GDP and employment, with the ultimate purpose of establishing their importance ...
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International positioning of South African electricity prices and commodity differentiated pricing (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2013-03-16)The South African electricity industry has seen a dramatic increase in prices over the past 3 years. This increase has been blanketed across all sectors and is based on a number of factors such as sector, usage and, in ...
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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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(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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(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, 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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(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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(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, 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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(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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(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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(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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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, 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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2010-01)Within a short period, Eskom has applied to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) for the third time since the 2008 electricity crisis, proposing a multiyear price determination for the periods 2010-2011 ...
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