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Gerryts, BA
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Buys, AJ
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2009-03-06T10:59:44Z |
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2009-03-06T10:59:44Z |
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2008-07 |
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Gerryts, BA and Buys, AJ. 2008. R&D as a source of innovation in South Africa. Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Tecnology (PICMET) Conference 2008: Technology Management for Sustainable Economies, Cape Town, South Africa, 27-31 July, pp 337-343. |
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1-890843-18-0 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3145
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Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Tecnology (PICMET) Conference 2008: Technology Management for Sustainable Economies, Cape Town, South Africa, 27-31 July 2008 |
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In investigating the link between R&D and innovation, data was used from the South African Innovation Survey of 2001 (SAIS2001). The SAIS2001 results showed that South African enterprises had a relatively high level of innovation with a low level of R&D related innovation costs. A cross tabulation was performed and a statistically significant link between innovation and R&D was found. The group of firms who innovated had a higher tendency to conduct R&D. Universities or Public Research Organisations (PROs) – the ‘conventional’ sources of R&D - was rated mostly as unimportant external sources of innovation. This is ascribed to the fact that most R&D that is conducted internally is at the experimental development level and requires little basic or applied research. Sectors also differ in their use of R&D as a source of innovation. Based on the abovementioned data, a positive correlation between R&D and innovation was found in the SAIS2001 data. However, the majority of R&D reported in SAIS2001 is in-house R&D. In contrast, national R&D programmes focus on science intensive industries where R&D (basic and applied) is an important source of innovation. These can be easily quantified by the annual R&D surveys. However, at the national industry level, the link between R&D and innovation requires more frequent quantification as an input into STI policy. It is therefore recommended that in a developing country such as South Africa, R&D should be closer aligned to enable innovation at industry level |
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Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Tecnology (PICMET) Conference 2008 |
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dc.subject |
Innovation |
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Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Tecnology |
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PICMET |
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dc.title |
R&D as a source of innovation in South Africa |
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Conference Presentation |
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dc.identifier.apacitation |
Gerryts, B., & Buys, A. (2008). R&D as a source of innovation in South Africa. Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Tecnology (PICMET) Conference 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3145 |
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Gerryts, BA, and AJ Buys. "R&D as a source of innovation in South Africa." (2008): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3145 |
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitation |
Gerryts B, Buys A, R&D as a source of innovation in South Africa; Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Tecnology (PICMET) Conference 2008; 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3145 . |
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TY - Conference Presentation
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DP - CSIR
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