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Title:Universities and the Business Sector: Strengthening the Links
Author:Kaplan, DavidISNI
Year:1997
Periodical:Social Dynamics
Volume:23
Issue:1
Period:Winter
Pages:68-76
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:business
universities
Bibliography/Research
Education and Oral Traditions
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533959708458620
Abstract:South Africa's universities, like Anglo-Saxon type universities in general, have tended to keep science in the ivory tower. They stress science and not its application, and the links between universities and the business sector are poorly developed. Given South Africa's developmental problems, the need to give more support to technology and the need to develop programmes to establish firmer links between the universities and other research and development performers, more especially firms, is clearly evident. A recent White Paper on Science and Technology has recognized that problem. There is currently one programme which specifically seeks to link research in the higher education sector with firms, namely, the Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme (THRIP). But there is much more that can and should be done. The flow of persons between the two sectors must be encouraged, and the functioning of research administrations and research funding will need to be changed to provide support for research linkages. Notes, ref.
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