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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. ARI Structure - SANHARP6

7. Structure and function
Grade UG H M PhD PDoc Professions
SANHARP
THRIP ?
NRF
DST &
NSTF UG
Bursaries
Tip Top
&
Thuthuka
SAASTA
PhD Project
GMSA
SARChI
CoE ‘s 7

8. 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

9. Perceived problems & new ideas
Timing and flexibility
Cash required
? “in kind”
? ring fenced smme funds with tailored funding rules
? ????? QUESTIONAIRE

10. 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

11. What is Applied Research ?
Research in the service of society
Positively influencing human well-being
Measuring and monitoring impact

12. 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

13. Akili CII Akili complexity and Integration initiative
Knowledge and wisdom
Pan-African

14. 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

15. 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?

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