APPLIED RESEARCH

and INNOVATION:

relevance to SMME’s

Tally Palmer

Executive Director: ARI

SMME conference Spier 2009

THRIP

Technology & Innovation Agency

(TIA)

- dtiTHRIP

NEW PROGRAMMES

Commercial improvement

Spin-offs

Make R’s

Grand Challenges - future

“Well being Improvement”

Save R’s

“A better life…… PUBLIC GOOD

Build SA’s knowledge economythrough

Human Resource Development & ResearchHuman Resource Development & Research

- DSTSANHARPEnergySpaceBioinform-atics

Public Benefit Foundation (PBF)

Applied Research and InnovationApplied Research and Innovation

- DAFF(ARC)- DWAE(WRC)- NIPP

THRIP

Technology & Innovation Agency

(TIA)

- dtiTHRIP

NEW PROGRAMMES

Commercial improvement

Spin-offs

Make R’s

Grand Challenges - future

“Well being Improvement”

Save R’s

Human well being : “A better life……”

Build SA’s knowledge economythrough

Human Resource Development & ResearchHuman Resource Development & Research

- DSTSANHARPEnergySpaceBionfom-atics

Public Benefit Foundation (PBF)

Applied Research and InnovationApplied Research and Innovation

- DAFF(ARC)- DWAE(WRC)- NIPP

THRIP

Technology & Innovation Agency

(TIA)

- dtiTHRIP

NEW PROGRAMMES

Commercial improvement

Spin-offs

Make R’s

Grand Challenges - future

“Well being Improvement”

Save R’s

Human well being : “A better life……”

Build SA’s knowledge economythrough

Human Resource Development & ResearchHuman Resource Development & Research

- DSTSANHARPEnergySpaceBionfom-atics

Public Benefit Foundation (PBF)

Applied Research and InnovationApplied Research and Innovation

- DAFF(ARC)- DWAE(WRC)- NIPP

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THRIPTHRIP• Co-investment from the dti & industry

• Project grants to researchers partnered by industry

• Human capital development – postgraduate students& industry-academic exchanges

• Applied research for industry

• Feeds into TIA (innovation fund)

ARI Structure….ARI Structure….

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ARI StructureARI Structure

SANHARP

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Structure and functionStructure and function

NRF

SAA

STA

PhD Project

Tip Top

&Thuthuka

GM

SA

SANHARP

THRIP

Grade10-12 UG H M PhD PDoc Professions

?

SAR

ChI

CoE ‘s

DST &

NSTF U

G

Bursaries

THRIP & smme’s

Industry Partner(s)

THRIP contribution

Large industry

contribution

Small & medium Enterprise

Contribution

Very Small & Micro Enterprise

contribution

Large company(s) only

1 3 N/A N/A

Large company(s) plus minimum of 25 % by number of SMMEs

1 2 5% of highestcontribution

No financialcontribution

All SMMEs 1 N/A 1 No financialcontribution

All SMMEs and all BEEs

2 N/A 1 No financialcontribution

Perceived problems & new ideas

• Timing and flexibility

• Cash required

• ? “in kind”

• ? ring fenced smme funds with tailored funding rules

• ? ????? QUESTIONAIRE

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How we work in ARI How we work in ARI

NRF

Industry /Sector

Students Researchers

Planning commission

DST

dti

Environment & Water

Agriculture Forestry & Fisheries

Para-statals…..

Provincial & local government

EnkosiEnkosi,, Thank youThank you, , ReRe a leboga, a leboga, SiyabongaSiyabonga, , DankieDankie

RISA

What is Applied Research ?

• Research in the service of society

• Positively influencing human well-being

• Measuring and monitoring impact

Implications of application

• All that research and a deteriorating planet…..

• Moving from data generation to application – central role of VALUES

• Requires engaging with complexity

& integration

Akili CII

• Akili complexity and Integration initiative• Knowledge and wisdom• Pan-African

Akili CII Goals…

Using a range of concepts

To support the capacity to practice integration in complex contexts

To address the compelling question:

How do we learn to share benefits?

Some useful concepts

transdsciplinarity (TD)working across discipline and other boundaries

resilience theorylinked social-ecological systems

ecosystem serviceswhat ecosystems do for people

integration and implementation science new skills needed