- UPSpace Home
- →
- Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
- →
- Institute for Technological Innovation (ITI)
- →
- Research Articles (Institute for Technological Innovation (ITI))
- →
- Browsing Research Articles (Institute for Technological Innovation (ITI)) by Issue Date
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Browsing Research Articles (Institute for Technological Innovation (ITI)) by Issue Date
Now showing items 21-40 of 53
-
(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 ...
-
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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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, ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2015)This paper reports an investigation of the use of the Durban University of Technology (DUT) Library intranet as a knowledge management (KM) tool. The general objectives of the investigation were to establish what KM practices ...
-
(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 ...
-
(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 ...
-
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-03)Scientific journals play an important role in academic information exchange and their assessment is of interest to science authorities, editors and researchers. The assessment of journals is of particular interest to ...
-
(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 ...
-
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016-03)An unprecedented outbreak of the Ebola virus in 2014 claimed more than 1000 lives in West Africa and the World Health Organization declared a global public health emergency. This outbreak will undoubtedly promote additional ...
Now showing items 21-40 of 53