CURRICULUM VITAE - MARIO SCERRI* Personal details Address: Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Faculty of Economics and Finance, Tshwane University of Technology, 159 Nana Sita Street, Pretoria CBD, 0002, Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa Tel: +27 12 382 3006; +27 82 333 7521 Fax: +27 12 382 3071 E-Mail: mario@ieri.org.za; scerrim@tut.ac.za; mscerri@mweb.co.za Date of Birth 2nd November 1953 Nationality South Africa/Malta Tertiary education and academic qualifications 1994 PhD (Thesis: “The Determinants of Research and Development Activity within the Context of the South African Manufacturing Sector”) - University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. 1978 MA Economics - University of New Orleans, USA 1975 BA (Hons) Economics - Royal University of Malta, Malta. Work Record Appointments (current): Since 2004 Since 2007 Since 2015 Professor of Economics, Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI) Faculty of Economics and Finance, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Faculty of Economic Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology. (I was the founder of IERI at the Technikon North-West in 2002. IERI became operational with the appointment of Rasigan Maharajh as Chief Director and its official launch by the Minister of Science and Technology in South Africa in 2004.) Professor Extraordinary at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), Stellenbosch University, South Africa. * The spelling of my surname in my birth certificate in Malta is “Xerri” but my family adopted the spelling “Scerri” as the family name. This was allowed by Maltese law which saw “Scerri” and “Xerri” as interchangeable variations of the same surname. A change in Maltese law in 2012 required a strict adherence to the spelling of my surname as “Xerri” according to my birth record. Unofficially I still retain the spelling “Scerri” in the interest of continuity in my academic record. 1 Since 2015 Since 2014 Visiting Senior Researcher, School of Economics and Business Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Member of the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and STI Policy, hosted by the Institute for Economic Research in Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology and the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology at Stellenbosch University Appointments (past): 2004-2007 2001-2003 2001-2003 Executive Dean: Faculty of Economics and Finance, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Dean: Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Technikon North-West, South Africa. Professor: Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Technikon NorthWest, South Africa. Teaching: Since 2010 2007-2012 2011 2007-2008 1995-2001 1986-1995 1984-1986 1979-1984 1977-1979 Lecturer on Economic Approaches to Local Development in the Joint African Masters Programme in Local Development (Tshwane University of Technology, the University of Trento, the University of Botswana, the Polytechnic of Namibia and St Thomas University in Mozambique). Since 2013 the programme was changed to the MTech: Comparative Local Development, administered by the Tshwane University of Technology. Lecturer in the Science, Technology and Innovation for South Africa (STISA), for the Department of Science and Technology Visiting Lecturer - Master of Management in Innovation Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Lecturer in Microeconomics IV, Tshwane University of Technology Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Permanent Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. I have taught International Trade and General Equilibrium Analysis at third year levels and Mathematical Economics at second year level. I teach the core courses in Microeconomics at second year and Honours levels. I also give a taught course at third year level and seminar course at the Masters level in `The Economics of Technological Change'. Temporary Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Full-time permanent lecturer in the Faculty of Management Studies at the University of Malta. Subjects taught included Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Development Economics and Microeconomics. Part-time lecturer at the University of Malta. 2 1975-1976 Teaching assistant at the University of New Orleans Other appointments: Since 2013 2009-2014 2012-2014 2010-2011 2010-2011 2008 2003-2005 2003 2002-2005 2001-2003 1998–2000 1996-1999 1996 1995 1995-2001 1994-1995 1994 1994 Member of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Academic Forum Member of the editorial board - African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (AJSTID) Director – Institute for Comparative Studies in Local Development - Mozambique (resumed appointment held over 2006-2009) Academic Director of the Joint African Masters Programme on Comparative Local Development; this programme was the product of a consortium of tertiary education institutions (Tshwane University of Technology, the University of Trento, the University of Botswana, the Polytechnic of Namibia and St Thomas University in Mozambique). The programme commenced in 2010. Coordinator of the IDRC-IERI Doctoral Research Awards in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. Erasmus Mundus Fellow attached to the Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy. Member of the North West Research Coordinating Committee, Office of the Premier, North West Provincial Government External Examiner for Economics I and Economics II in the School of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. Member of the Sub-committee: Job Creation, Economic Development, Finances, Human Resources and Agricultural Development for the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Member on the Advisory Board of the Eastern Region Entrepreneurial Support Centre for the North-West Province Economics II co-ordinator in the Department of Economics at the University of the Witwatersrand. Member of the International Reference Group for the Indian Ocean Research Network, University of Notre Dame, Australia. Economics Honours coordinator in the Department of Economics at the University of the Witwatersrand. Founder member of the Africa and Indian Ocean Project. Member of the Higher Degrees Committee in the Faculty of Commerce, University of the Witwatersrand Coordinator of the SOAS/WITS project on academic support (mathematics and statistics) for disadvantaged economics students at the University of the Witwatersrand. Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the South African Economy and International Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science. Visiting Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. 3 1993 1989-2000 1982-1984 1978-1979 1978-1979 1975-1976 Economics II coordinator in the Department of Economics at the University of the Witwatersrand. Examiner in “Principles of Economics” for the Institute of Marketing Management. This entailed syllabus setting, the drafting of lecturers’ guides, the setting of marking criteria and the coordination of markers. First Year co-ordinator in the Faculty of Management Studies at The University of Malta Member of the Board of Examiners for the Maltese Advanced Matriculation in Economics Research executive (investment promotion policy) at the Malta Development Corporation Teaching Assistant in the Department of Economics at the University of New Orleans Research output Books 2009 The Evolution of the South African System of Innovation since 1916. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing). [http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/The-Evolution-of-the-SouthAfrican-System-of-Innovation-since-19161-4438-0160-7.htm]; electronic version: http://lib.myilibrary.com/Browse/Open.asp?ID=233448 Edited books 2016 The Emergence of Systems of Innovation in South(ern) Africa: Long Histories and Contemporary Debates (Johannesburg: MISTRA and Real African Publishers) 2014 with Soares, Maria Clara Couto and Rasigan Maharajh (eds.), Inequality and Development Challenges: BRICS National Systems of Innovation, (New Delhi: Routledge), download available at http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?Publicatio nID=1231 2014 with Arroio, Ana (eds.), The Promise of Small and Medium Enterprise: BRICS National Systems of Innovation, (New Delhi: Routledge), download available at http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?Publicatio nID=1239 2013 with Lastres, Helena (eds.), The Role of the State: BRICS National Systems of Innovation (New Delhi: Routledge), download available at https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/role-state?PublicationID=1194 2006 with Blankley, William, Neo Molotja and Imraan Saloojee (eds.), Measuring Innovation in OECD and non-OECD Countries. (South Africa: HSRC), download available at 4 http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/product.php?productid=2133 Chapters in books 2017 (forthcoming) “Modes of Innovation and the Prospects for Economic Development in South Africa and Tanzania”, in Stefan Kuhlmann and Gonzalo Ordonez-Matamoros (eds.), Research Handbook on Innovation Governance for Emerging Economies: Towards Better Models, (UK: Edward Elgar). 2016 “The Long History of Innovation Systems in South Africa”, in Scerri (ed.), op. cit. 2016 “From Union to Apartheid”, in Scerri (ed.), op. cit. 2016 “The Regional Setting of the South African System of Innovation”, in Scerri (ed.), op. cit. 2016 with Thomas Pogue, “The Colonial System of Innovation”’ in Scerri (ed.), op. cit. 2016 with Lebs Mphahlele, “The Human Factor in the Evolution of the South African System of Innovation”, in Scerri (ed.), op. cit. 2016 with Rasigan Maharajh, “The Policy Environment and Policy Options for the South African System of Innovation”, in Scerri (ed.), op. cit. 2015 with Erika Kraemer-Mbula, “Southern Africa”, in Susan Schneegans (ed.) UNESCO Science Report: Towards 2030 (Paris: UNESCO Publishing), available at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002354/235406e.pdf 2015 “Sistema Nacional de Inovação em un periodo de Crise Econômica Global (The National System of Innovation in a period of Global Economic Crisis)”, in Jose Eduardo Cassiolato, Gabriela Podcameni and Maria Clara Couto Soares (eds.), Políticas estratégicas de inovação e mudança estrutural - vol. 1 (Strategic Innovation Policy and Structural Changevol.1), Editora E-papers, Rio de Janeiro, available at http://www.e-papers.com.br/produtos.asp?codigo_produto=2607 2015 “Africa’s Economic Relations with the Indian Ocean Rim”, in Dennis Rumley (ed.), The Political Economy of Indian Ocean Maritime Africa, (New Delhi: Pentagon Press). 2014 with Maria Clara Couto Soares and Rasigan Maharajh, “The co-evolution of Innovation and Inequality”, in Soares, Scerri and Maharajh (eds.), op. cit. 2014 with Ana Arroio, “Small fish in a big pond: SME and innovation in BRICS” in Arroio and Scerri (eds.), op. cit. 2013 “South Africa”, in Scerri and Lastres (eds.), op. cit. 2013 with Helena Lastres, “The State and the Architecture of National Systems of Innovation” in Scerri and Lastres (eds.), op. cit. 2012 “Economic Integration in Africa – The Systems of Innovation Approach”, in Mammo Muchie, Olusanya Osha and Matlotleng Matlou (eds.), The Africana World: From Fragmentation to Unity and Renaissance (South Africa: Africa Institute of South Africa). 2011 with Rasigan Maharajh, Chapter 2 in African Innovation Outlook 2010 (AU-NePAD) 2011 with Rasigan Maharajh and Enver Motala, “Post-apartheid Higher Education and the System of Innovation: Enduring Challenges” in Göransson, B. and Brundenius, C. (editors) Universities in Transition - the Changing Role and Challenges for Academic Institutions (IDRC Publishing & Springer, New York). 5 2010 “Provincial Systems of Innovation and Globalisation in South Africa” in Dallago, Bruno and Chiara Guglielmetti (eds.), Local Economies and Global Competitiveness (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan). 2006 “Introduction”, in Blankley et al (eds.) 2006 “The Conceptual Fluidity of National Innovation Systems: Implications for Innovation Measures”, in Blankley et al (eds.) 2003 “The Competitiveness of the Southern African Customs Union within the Context of the Indian Ocean Rim” in Gwyn Campbell (ed.), The Indian Ocean Rim: Southern Africa and Regional Co-operation., (Routledge-Curzon: London & New York):123-42. 2003 “The Prospects for Regional Innovation System(s) Within Sub-Saharan Africa” in Mammo Muchie, Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Peter Gammeltoft (eds.), Putting Africa First: The Making of African Innovation Systems. (Denmark: Aalborg University Press) reprinted in Piyushi Kotecha (ed.) The Challenges of Regional Integration and it Implications for Higher Education (SARUA Leadership Dialogue Series – Vol. 1 Number 2 2009). Articles in scientific journals 2014 “Modes of Innovation and the National Systems of Innovation of the BRICS Economies”, STI Policy Review, 5(2): 20-42. 2013 “Modes of Innovation and the Prospects for Economic Integration in Africa”, Africa Insight, 43(3): 80-99 2012 “The Introduction of the Systems of Innovation Approach in Economics Curricula”, International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, 5(1/2): 1227 2009 “Neoclassical Theory and the Teaching of Undergraduate Microeconomics”, South African Journal of Economics, 76 (4): 749-764 1998 “The Parameters of Science and Technology Policy Formulation in South Africa.”, African Development Review (Special Issue: Information, Knowledge and Africa’s Development), 10: 73-89 1995 with Gwyn Campbell, “An Indian Ocean Rim Economic Association”, South African Journal of International Affairs, 2: 11-37 1995 “Towards a Science and Technology Policy for the South African Manufacturing Sector”, Development Southern Africa, 12: 49-62 1990 “R&D and the International Competitiveness of the South African Manufacturing Sector”, South African Journal of Economics, 58: 341-356 1988 “Research and Development in South African Manufacturing Industries”, South African Journal of Economics, 56: 111-123 6 Conference Papers 2014 “Africa’s economic relations with the Indian Ocean Rim: A Systems of Innovation Approach”, Conference on the Political Economy of Maritime Africa in the Indian Ocean Region Nairobi, 12-14 March 2014. 2012 “Modes of Innovation and the Prospects for Economic Integration in Africa”, prepared for the Second Scramble for Africa Conference, Africa Institute of South Africa, Tshwane, South Africa, 23-24 May 2012. 2011 "National Systems of Innovations in the time of Global Economic Crisis", draft paper prepared for Seminar on Innovation Policies and Structural Change in a Context of Growth and Crisis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13-15 September 2011 – Forthcoming as a book chapter (2012). 2011 "Economic Integration in Africa – The Systems of Innovation Approach", Africa in the 21st Century and the Quasquicentennial of the Scramble of Africa: An International Symposium, Africa Institute of South Africa, Tshwane, South Africa, 25-27 May 2011 – Forthcoming as a book chapter (2012). 2009 “Modes of Innovation and the Evolution of the South African National System of Innovation”, GLOBELICS 7th International Conference, Dakar, Senegal, 6-8 October, 2009 (available at http://smartech.gatech.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1853/35504/1252916417_MS_1.pdf?s equence=1). 2008 “Provincial Systems of Innovation and Globalisation in South Africa”, International Conference on “Apparent Antithesis: Globalisation and Local Development”, School on Local Development, University of Trento – Trento, 9th - 11th October 2008. 2001 “The Prospects for Regional Innovation System(s) within Sub-Saharan Africa”, International Workshop on African Systems of Innovation and Competence-building in the Era of Globalisation, Aalborg University, Denmark 2001 “The Conceptual Fluidity of National Innovation Systems - Implications for Innovation Measures” DACST/OECD Seminar on Innovation Measurement in OECD and non-OECD Countries, Pretoria, South Africa 1998 with Paola Beck, “Cultural Industries in South Africa: Implications for Cultural Development”, Tenth Biennial International Conference on Cultural Economics, hosted by The Association for Cultural Economics International, Barcelona, Spain. 1995 “The Competitiveness of the Southern African Customs Union Within the Context of the Indian Ocean Rim Region”, Conference on France, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean, Africa and Indian Ocean Project/French Institute for Scientific Research on Development in Cooperation, Johannesburg. 1994 "The Technology of an Education in Economics" - The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Sixth Annual International Conference, (HEC, Jouy-en-Josas, France). 1993 “The Determinants of R&D Activity within the South African Manufacturing Sector”, EBM Research Conference, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein 1979 Presented the Maltese proposal on `Regional Industrial Co-operation' at the CSCE Meeting of Experts on the Mediterranean, Malta. 7 Working Papers 2010 with Helena Lastres, “Comparative Report on the State and the National System of Innovation in BRICS”, RedeSist, http://brics.redesist.ie.ufrj.br/proj_idrc/cp_report/Comparative_report_on_State.pdf 2010 with Maria Clara Couto Soares and Rasigan Maharajh, “Comparative Report on Innovation Systems and Inequality in the BRICS”, RedeSist, http://brics.redesist.ie.ufrj.br/proj_idrc/cp_report/Comparative_report_on_Inequality.pdf 2010 with Ana Arroio, “Comparative Report on the Role of Small and Medium Enterprise in the National System of Innovation in BRICS”, RedeSist, http://brics.redesist.ie.ufrj.br/proj_idrc/cp_report/Comparative_report_on_SME.pdf 2009 IERI WP_002, “Modes of Innovation and the Evolution of the South African National System of Innovation” 2008 “The Post-apartheid National System of Innovation”, School of Local Government, University of Trento 2008 IERI WP 005, "Provincial Systems of Innovation and Globalisation in South Africa" 2004 “Neoclassical Theory and the Teaching of Economics”, Faculty of Economics and Finance, Tshwane University of Technology 1994 “The Determinants of R and D within the Context of the South African Manufacturing Sector”, Working Paper, Political Economy of Development Seminars, (Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University) 1994 “Appropriate Technology and the Teaching of Undergraduate Economics”, Working Paper, Centre for Economic Policy for Southern Africa, (Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University). Presentations 2016 ‘STI Measurement, Policies and Convergence within the SADC Region’, at the Regional Workshop on Capacity in Data Development in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) and STI Policy Implementation for Sustainable Development in Africa, 21-25 November 2016, Southern Sun Hotel OR TAMBO, Johannesburg, South Africa 2016 ‘The Global Economy in 2025’, for World Expo 2025 South Africa-Development of theme Workshop, for the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), 8-9 September 2016, Cedar Woods Conference Centre, Sandton, South Africa. 2016 ‘The viability of systems of innovation in the SADC region’, SADC – Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Indicators meeting, 1st April 2016, Cresta Lodge Hotel, Gaborone, Botswana. 2015 Chair and Moderator – ‘Creatively destroying Africa: Rethinking Inclusion, Integration, and Sustainable Development through Science, Technology and Innovation’, DST Science Forum, 8th December 2015, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria. 8 2014 “The emergence of BRICS: A new phenomenon in the global innovation system?”, HSRC BRICS Seminar Series, 14th October 2014 and Broadening Participation Division (BPD) Department of Trade & Industry, 2nd December 2014. 2014 “Systems of Innovation and STI Policy – from Theory to Practice”, Critical Mass Training Workshop, Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) Federal Democratic republic of Ethiopia, 9th - 14th August 2014, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 2014 “Modes of Innovation and the BRICS National Systems of Innovation”, BRICS in the XXI Century Conference, COPPE Institute (Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de PósGraduação e Pesquisa em Engenharia of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro-UFRJ) and INTERSUL (the Institute for Strategic Studies for the Integration of South America), 20-23 May 2014, Rio de Janeiro, at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0By2retOfN0xoSGx1a2F5bng3RjA/edit?pli=1 2014 “Perspectives on Science, Technology and Innovation Diplomacy”, Redefining South Africa’s Science and Technology Diplomacy – Seminar on South Africa’s Science and Technology Diplomacy, Department of Science and Technology, Pretoria, 13th May 2014. 2014 “Africa’s Economic Relations with the Indian Ocean Rim: A Systems of Innovation Approach”, Conference on the Political Economy of Maritime Africa in the Indian Ocean Region, Indian Ocean Rim Association – Academic Forum, Nairobi, 12th March to 14th March 2014. 2012 “STI policy, legislation, regulation and guidelines”, STI Reform Workshop, Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 15th – 17th August 2012. 2012 “Promotion of inclusive innovation and grassroots innovation”, STI Reform Workshop, Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology, Dar es Salaam, 15-17 August 2012. 2012 “Understanding the Emerging Rising Powers: G20 and BRICS Acting in whose Interests?”, Overview of the geo-political shifts and political economy shaping SouthSouth relations and emerging economies joining the global elite formations such the G20, IERI, Tshwane, 15 November 2012. 2011 “South Africa within the BRICS: an innovation system perspective”, at the Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS) unit at the University of Twente, Netherlands, on the occasion of my role as an opponent at the PhD thesis defence of Britta Rennkamp (“Innovation for all? Legitimizing science, technology and innovation policy in unequal societies”), on the same day, 28th October 2011. 2010 “The Introduction of the Systems of Innovation Approach in Economics Curricula Strategies and Consequences” at the Innovation for development: frontiers of research, policy and practice International symposium organised and hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, February 2010 2009 “The role of the state in the South African System of Innovation” to the International Seminar on Innovation and Development under Globalisation: BRICS Experience, 19-21 August, Trivandrum 2009 “Transnational corporations and National Systems of Innovation: the case of South Africa” to the International Seminar on Innovation and Development under 9 2008 Globalisation: BRICS Experience, 19-21 August, Trivandrum. “The State and the National System of Innovation” to the International Seminar on Innovation and Development under Globalisation: BRICS Experience, 28-30 August, Stellenbosch Commissioned Research 2016 The Global Economy in 2025, for World Expo 2025 South Africa, funded by the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), South Africa 2014 with Carl James, Teija Lehtonen and Henriika Lindroos, Mid-term Evaluation of the Southern Africa Innovation Support Programme (SAIS), funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. 2013 with Rasigan Maharajh, Current Debates on Innovation, Development and Social Upliftment (Review Article commissioned by the National Advisory Council on Innovation of South Africa). 2012-2013 with Rasigan Maharajh and Maclean Sibanda, A System of Innovation that Works: An External Review of the Background Report on the National System of Innovation of the United Republic of Tanzania, (Tanzania: Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology; South Africa: Department of Science and Technology). 2010 with Rasigan Maharajh, Chapter2 in African Innovation Outlook 2010 (AU-NePAD) 2009-2013 with Helena Lastres, editor: The state and the national system of innovation: a comparative analysis of the BRICS economies, for the Fundação Universitária José Bonifácio project on project on National Innovation Systems of BRICS Countries (GLOBELICS/IDRC) 2009-2013 with Ana Arroio, editor: The Role of Small and Medium Enterprise in the National Innovation System of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, for the Fundação Universitária José Bonifácio project on project on National Innovation Systems of BRICS Countries (GLOBELICS/IDRC) 2009-2013 with Maria Clara Couto Soares and Rasigan Maharajh, editor: Innovation and inequality in the BRICS economies, for the Fundação Universitária José Bonifácio project on project on National Innovation Systems of BRICS Countries (GLOBELICS/IDRC) 2009 “The Role of the State in the South African System of Innovation” in Scerri and Lastres (eds.) 2009-2011 Consultant for the Department of Human Settlements, South Africa 2009 with Alan Penny, David Freer and Nuria De La Fuente Teixido, Formulation of a Project to create an Erasmus Mundus South Africa window, for The European Commission Delegation, Pretoria, South Africa. 2009 “The Role of the State in the South African System of Innovation” for the Fundação Universitária José Bonifácio project on project on National Innovation Systems of BRICS Countries (GLOBELICS/IDRC) 2003 with Mojalefa Ralekhetho and Michael Antwi, The Mayaeyane Village Project: An 10 2001 2001 2000 2000 1999 1999 1998 1997 1996 1996 1996 Economic Analysis, for the Research Directorate, Office of the Premier, North West Provincial Government. From September 2000 to March 2001 I was co-opted by the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST) to assist in the planning and the organisation of an international seminar on the measurement of innovation activities. The seminar was held in Pretoria on the 28/29 March 2001. This seminar was jointly organised by the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Directorate for Science and Technology Policy. To this end I was engaged to establish a team consisting of four graduate students and two staff members (an economist and a biotechnologist) to work on this project and to build research capacity in this area. Apart from the obvious implications for the measurement of technological innovation in South Africa, one of the main planned outputs of this project is a book on appropriate innovation measures for developing economies. Member of the DACST team attending the annual meeting of the National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators working party of the OECD in Rome. Evaluation of the Inter-Agency Agreement between the South African Department of Labour and the United States Department of Labour. Evaluation of research projects funded by USAID. Establishment of the criteria for the Project Monitoring Performance evaluation for the USAID Strategic Objectives. Development of a Supra-Economic Index for South Africa for USAID. Project coordinator on “The relevance of SADC on the Trade Patterns of Member Countries and Wholesale Price Differentials for Selected Commodities”, Aurora Associates, USAID with Bangani Ngeleza, “A National Register on Further Education and Training”, National Institute for Community Education with Peter Karungu, "The Impact of the Declining Rand on Inflation in South Africa", internal report submitted to the Central Statistical Services, Pretoria. Among other considerations the study involved collection of price indices (consumer and producer) with specific attention to the impact of inflation on various income categories. “An Assessment of Strategic Objective 4: Economic Policy Capacity”, USAID. The scope of this consultancy was to develop indicators relevant to capacity building within policy advisory bodies concerned with addressing problems of economic development and poverty within South Africa. “An Assessment of Strategic Objective 5: Sustainability of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises”, USAID. The objective of this project was to ensure the financial and advisory support to SMMEs playing a significant role in the process of development in South Africa. The main thrust of the project was to ensure the initiation of a process of economic empowerment for previously marginalised population groups. 11 Awards 1989 The Convocation Distinguished Teacher's Award in the Faculty of Commerce, University of the Witwatersrand. 1988 J J I Middleton Award for the best first article published in the South African Journal of Economics by a South African resident. 12