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BRICS Innovation Panel - South Africa,Pretoria , 29th January 2010

Objective
The objective of the BRICS Innovation panel for South Africa is to disseminate the interim findings of the South African component of the BRICS project to a wider South African audience.

Target audience
The target audience for the Innovation panel consists of academics, government agencies concerned with various aspects of the national system of innovation, NGOs and independent research organisations and international organisations. 

Main Outcomes
The response to the public seminar of the 29th January has been favourable, with a lively discussion of the research findings and a number of requests for a pre-publication circulation of a selection of the research output among the university sector as the basis for a research and teaching resource.  The construction of a website will be the location of this material which will be located within the IERI website and linked to the faculty and university sites.  The publication titled “Transforming South Africa’s National System of Innovation for Accelerated and Shared Growth and Development” has been edited and proof read and marks the start of selected research output for future dissemination.

Program

Slides