Woman in Engineering and the Built environment

Adrie El Mohamadi

NFTN Project Leader

HARVARD Professor and Economist Michal E. Porter in his book “Competitive Advantage of Nations”

• National prosperity is created, not inherited…..

• Sustained productivity and economic growth requires that an economy continually upgrades itself……

Technology Transfer & Innovation is like

swimming against the Current

Innovation Capability at Firm LevelCreativity of Employees at all Levels

Innovation-friendly organizational structureNetworked Research and Development

Education & Training System

Primary EducationTechnology-related Secondary Education

Skills Development for the WorkplaceHigher Education, especially in

Engineering

Technology-related Institutions

Applied Research & DevelopmentResearch & Development Financing

Technology Transfer & Extension Testing, Measuring, Quality

Control & Standards CertificationIntellectual Property Rights Protection`

Political, Legal, Regulatory and Macro-Economic Framework

that stimulates learning and innovativeness

Technological Capabilities

emerges from interaction

Policy InstitutionalInnovation Support

ProgrammaticInnovation Support

Actors

National Innovation Policy

Regional Innovation Policies

Innovation Friendly Regulations

Educational Policy

Cluster policy

Technology Transfer Centres

Science & Technology Parks

Funding Agencies

Clusters

Innovation Service Providers

Business Promotion Agencies / Associations

Technology Transfer Support Schemes

Fundamental STI Funding

Entrepreneurial Support Schemes

Applied STI Funding

Accompanying Mea-sures to Support STI

Collaborative STI Funding

Cluster Development Schemes

Universities

Public R&D Institutions

Private Investors

Private R&D Institutions

Entrepreneurs

Large Firms

Inventors

SME

Macro Level Meso Level Micro

Education and Training Provider

Determinants of a National Innovation System

Technology Transfer

Networking

Technology

Innovation system

Innovation

Innovation management

UJ MCTS

Johannesburg University

NMMU ACTS

CSIR

WC Provincial Government

NFTN

DTI

MERseta

German Foundry Institute

WCIF

Unido

Freiburg UniversityGermany

Others

AIDC

AFSA

SAQA

SAIFSCAW

DST

Tshumisano

GTZ

World Foundry Institute

WCIF Training Centre

Atlantis

Mittal SMEs

“Opportunities and challenges for technology transfer intermediaries to move beyond firm level to innovation system level interventions”

BY SHAWN CUNNINGHAM AND ADRIE EL MOHAMADI

Thank You

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