Executive Director: ARI, THRIP 2009 AFRICA SMME conference APPLIED RESEARCH and INNOVATION: relevance to SMME’s Tally Palmer Executive Director: ARI, THRIP

Applied Research and Innovation Spin-offs Make R’s Commercial improvement Grand Challenges - future “Well being Improvement” Save R’s NEW PROGRAMMES - dti THRIP THRIP Technology & Innovation Agency (TIA) - DST SANHARP Energy Space Bioinform- atics - DAFF (ARC) - DWAE (WRC) “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 - dti THRIP THRIP Technology & Innovation Agency (TIA) - DST SANHARP Energy Space Bioinform- atics - DAFF (ARC) - DWAE (WRC) “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 - dti THRIP THRIP Technology & Innovation Agency (TIA) - DST SANHARP Energy Space Bioinform- atics - DAFF (ARC) - DWAE (WRC) “A better life…… PUBLIC GOOD Public Benefit Foundation (PBF) Build SA’s knowledge economy through Human Resource Development & Research

ARI Structure…. 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) 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 SAASTA PhD Project GMSA SARChI CoE ‘s 7

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 Large company(s) plus minimum of 25 % by number of SMMEs 2 5% of highest contribution No financial All SMMEs All SMMEs and all BEEs

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 NRF Planning commission DST dti Environment & Water Agriculture Forestry & Fisheries Para-statals….. Provincial & local government Industry / Sector NRF Students Researchers 10

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

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

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?

Enkosi, Thank you, Re a leboga, Siyabonga, Dankie RISA