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The purpose of this Ten-Year Innovation Plan is to help drive South Africa’s transformation
towards a knowledge-based economy, in which the production and dissemination of knowledge leads to economic benefits and enriches all fields of human endeavour.

The plan builds on previous work undertaken by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). It is not, however, a compendium of existing programmes. Instead, it is a high-level presentation of the principal challenges identified by the DST, starting not from where South Africa is today, but where we should be a decade from now.

 

The core projections for 2018 are summarised as South Africa’s “grand challenges” in science and technology.

The plan proceeds from government’s broad socioeconomic mandate – particularly the need to accelerate and sustain economic growth – and is built on the foundation of the national system of innovation (NSI). It recognises that while the country’s science and technology system has taken important strides forward, there is a tremendous gap between South Africa and those countries identified as knowledge-driven economies. To close this gap, the NSI must become more focused on long-range objectives, including urgently confronting South Africa’s failure to commercialise the results of scientific research, and our inadequate production (in both a qualitative and quantitative sense) of knowledge workers capable of building a globally competitive economy.

The title of this report emphasises innovation – but not innovation for its own sake. South Africa’s prospects for improved competitiveness and economic growth rely, to a great degree, on science and technology. The government’s broad developmental mandate can ultimately be achieved only if South Africa takes further steps on the road to becoming a knowledge-based economy. Transformation in this direction will necessarily shift the proportion of national income derived from knowledge-based industries, the percentage of the workforce employed in knowledge-based jobs and the ratio of firms using technology to innovate...................이하생략