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SMME conference Spier 2009. APPLIED RESEARCH and INNOVATION: relevance to SMME’s Tally Palmer Executive Director: ARI. Applied Research and Innovation. Spin-offs Make R’s. Commercial improvement. Grand Challenges - future. “Well being Improvement” Save R’s. NEW PROGRAMMES.
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SMME conference Spier 2009 APPLIED RESEARCH and INNOVATION: relevance to SMME’s Tally Palmer Executive Director: ARI
Applied Research and Innovation Spin-offs Make R’s Commercial improvement Grand Challenges - future “Well being Improvement” Save R’s NEW PROGRAMMES THRIP - dti THRIP Technology & Innovation Agency (TIA) - DST SANHARP Energy Space Bioinform- atics - DAFF (ARC) - DWAE (WRC) - NIPP “A better life…… PUBLIC GOOD Public Benefit Foundation (PBF) Build SA’s knowledge economy through Human Resource Development & Research
Applied Research and Innovation Spin-offs Make R’s Commercial improvement Grand Challenges - future “Well being Improvement” Save R’s NEW PROGRAMMES THRIP - dti THRIP Technology & Innovation Agency (TIA) - DST SANHARP Energy Space Bionfom- atics - DAFF (ARC) - DWAE (WRC) - NIPP Human well being : “A better life……” Public Benefit Foundation (PBF) Build SA’s knowledge economy through Human Resource Development & Research
Applied Research and Innovation Spin-offs Make R’s Commercial improvement Grand Challenges - future “Well being Improvement” Save R’s NEW PROGRAMMES THRIP - dti THRIP Technology & Innovation Agency (TIA) - DST SANHARP Energy Space Bionfom- atics - DAFF (ARC) - DWAE (WRC) - NIPP Human well being : “A better life……” Public Benefit Foundation (PBF) Build SA’s knowledge economy through Human Resource Development & Research
THRIP 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…. 5
ARI Structure SANHARP 6
Structure and function Grade10-12 UG H M PhD PDoc Professions SANHARP THRIP ? NRF DST & NSTF UG Bursaries Tip Top & Thuthuka SARChI CoE ‘s SAASTA PhD Project GMSA 7
Perceived problems & new ideas • Timing and flexibility • Cash required • ? “in kind” • ? ring fenced smme funds with tailored funding rules • ? ????? QUESTIONAIRE
How we work in ARI Planning commission DST dti Environment & Water Agriculture Forestry & Fisheries Para-statals….. Provincial & local government Industry / Sector NRF Students Researchers
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 theory • linked social-ecological systems • ecosystem services • what ecosystems do for people • integration and implementation science • new skills needed