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(Energy Research Insitute, University of Cape Town, 2009-05)Energy poverty affects more than 40% of the world’s population. Fuels and appliances used by low-income groups have been of low-quality, expensive, non-durable and have posed serious health and safety risks to users. ...
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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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(South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2021-12-17)BACKGROUND: Experts recommend support to patents for stimulating innovation. Also, the South African government supports patents, in particular, international patents. In this paper it is examined how this strategy can be ...
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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, 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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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002-11)This paper reports on research into the technology transfer activities of South African aviation industry companies. The technologies surrounding the maintenance function were investigated, since this is one of the main ...
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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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(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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