College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2022 55 Examples of policy-relevant work in 2022 include: 1. Building a Community of Practice in Transformative Innovation Policy in South Africa (TIP SA). The Trilateral Chair, in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation, the Centre for Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators (CeSTII, HSRC), and the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC), is committed to building a Community Practice in TIP in South Africa. As part of this work in 2022, we have: • developed a capacity-building programme comprising a range of masterclasses and workshops oriented to policy actors and practitioners, as well as the academic community; • initiated several policy experiments with government departments in South Africa; • expanded our efforts to broaden the South African Community of Practice in TIP by engaging with academic communities and practitioners working on sustainability issues by presenting our work at conferences and multistakeholder fora; • developed a repository of materials (videos and written documents) to support the capacitybuilding efforts at the domestic and global levels – connecting to the efforts of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium; • continued advancing the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of TIP in the context of South Africa. As part of TIP SA, we held ten events in 2022, including masterclasses, workshops, panels, and side events in high-profile academic and multistakeholder fora, such as World Science Forum (WSF) in Cape Town (December 2022). At the WSF, TIP SA held a session on Spanning the boundaries between policymakers and researchers: a transformative innovation policy approach, with representatives in the panel from UNESCO, the Department of Science and Innovation, the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, and the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, as well as the HSRC and UJ. 2. Support the development of a 4IR Country Readiness for Namibia. The Chair developed an analysis of Namibia’s 4IR Readiness Assessment Framework as input to the Country Readiness Report by the Namibia Presidential Task Force on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The Chair led the design of a national survey and the data analysis, as well as an international benchmark based on the Assessment Framework. Prof. Kraemer-Mbula presented the study’s preliminary results at the Namibia 4th Industrial Revolution Conference and Expo 2022 with keynote speaker His Excellency Dr Hage G. Geingob, President of the Republic of Namibia, on 7-8 June 2022. 3. Study for Sector Development Plan for the micro-digester industry in South Africa. The South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI) commissioned a study to review the state of the micro-digester sector in South Africa, and the impact of projects they have implemented during the last five years as part of its Working for Energy Programme. UJ- TRCTI collaborated with UJ Process Energy and Environmental Technology Station (UJ-
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