Quality of SA innovations lauded

Quality of SA innovations lauded






Government is trying to close the gap between innovation and businesses, with the introduction of the “innovation bridge”.
Tuesday marks day one of South Africa’s first “innovation bridge” in Pretoria, a Department of Science and Technology event to match-make innovators with business.
While a lot of innovation and research & development (R&D) takes place in South Africa, little of this makes its way onto the market or into companies.
Government, through the National Research Foundation, universities and research councils, is the major funder of R&D in the country, but often these developments stay in the laboratory, due to a lack of venture capital, difficulties faced by start-ups or industry ignorance.
“The [innovation bridge], which is the first-of-its-kind in South Africa, is intended to exhibit publicly funded technology innovation and create matchmaking opportunities for technology developers, financiers, funders and technology users,” Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor said on Monday, ahead of the event.
“Knowledge is the currency of the global economy. If South Africa wants to continue to compete in the 21st century, we must support research and innovation that will generate growth and jobs, now and in the future.”
But the 2010 ministerial review into the science technology and innovation landscape, published in 2012, spoke of a fragmented research-scape, in which there was little communication between government, academia and industry and that, as a result, there was a lack of co-ordination, agenda-setting and prioritisation…
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Lovely story - In reality you have people in positions that if you hit them over the head with innovation they would still not know what innovation is This is our experience with Prof. Thomas Auf der Heyde We introduced moladi as a job creation tool producing homes way back in 2009 - "In her speech the Honourable minister Pandor stated: - “the process needed to be reformed so that the South African economy and its people were able to take advantage of the innovations”. He - Prof. Thomas Auf der Heyde - did not have the courtesy to respond to this opportunity - Train the unemployed to build for the homeless - moladi an award winning technology - Prof. Thomas Auf der Heyde in our mind is a bottleneck to innovation.




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