College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2022 60 2022 also saw the appointment of one prestigious visiting scholar under the Global Excellence and Stature track, dedicated to the 4IR (GES 4.0) at UJ: Visiting Professor (GES 4.0) Joanna Chataway, based at the University College London, UK. We also welcomed the appointments of Senior Research Associates Dr K Chandra Shekar, Dr Olga Ustyuzhantseva and Dr Mike Awoleye. This growing community continues to provide a fertile ground for the exchange of ideas, mentorship, and learning. With reduced international travel and mobility restrictions, the Chair has also hosted several visiting scholars at our new JBS Park in Johannesburg offices. In 2022 we had visits from: Prof Jacob Park, Prof. Rasmus Lema, Drs Rob Byrne, Ann Kingiri, Chux Daniels and Prof Schot, Vusa Ncube, Dr Olga Ustyuzhantseva, Prof. Keun Lee, Dr Lucy Baker, and a cohort of students from the Netherlands doing their minor dissertations in Frugal Innovation: Floortje Broekman, Vera van Dijk, Sanne Kleinveld and Jakob Schwaiger CAPACITY BUILDING We launched two new Postgraduate programmes: an MPhil and a DPhil with a specialisation in Innovation and Development. These new interdisciplinary programmes will receive their first cohort in 2023. They are the first to be offered at any South African higher education institution (HEI) and are set to deliver cutting-edge research that will inform innovation policy and the scholarly field of innovation and development. The programmes will train the next generation of scholars, practitioners and policymakers who will go on to further study and promote innovation relevant to their communities. • In 2022 we deepened our collaboration with Africalics in providing training for our postgraduate students. We also incorporated a module on Transformative Innovation Policy as part of the 8th AfricaLics PhD Academy on Innovation and Competence Building Systems on 13-24 June 2022 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Academy included a two-day workshop on Transformative Innovation Policy with contributions from Prof. Johan Schot, Prof. Erika Kraemer-Mbula, Dr Rob Byrne, Dr Ann Kingiri, Prof. Rebecca Hanlin, and Dr Chux Daniels. These sessions were designed to engage with the different theoretical frameworks and thematic areas relevant to our research programme. In addition, the programme had interactive sessions with policy actors and practitioners who were involved in the TIP Africa Policy Experiment Pilots in Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa. • The Africalics PhD. Academy allowed our partners, PhD students and Postdoctoral Fellows, to meet in person after three years of mostly virtual engagements due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We had a full day dedicated to the Trilateral Chair and engaging with our members. It was fantastic having everyone under the same roof. • Reading Club. The students of the Chair continue to lead the activities in their Reading Club, a convivial social platform for scholarly engagement on foundational theory aligned with the Chair’s academic programme. In 2022, this practice continued and expanded. Reflection sessions held at the close of the preceding year suggested that our cohort of PhD students and Postdoctoral fellows also found great value in sharing personal experiences, perspectives, and challenges. In early 2022, the students undertook a survey to identify themes and activities of interest, which included issues on gender and entrepreneurship, global value chain participation in Africa, and innovation in the context of African modernity and traditional art. Members also used the standing online MS Teams link to host ad hoc e-meetings for ‘coffee and catch-up’. • In 2022, the Club invited its first guest speaker, Dr Bipashee Ghosh, as the lead author of “Decolonising transitions in the Global South: Towards more epistemic diversity in transitions research”. Decolonisation was the central theme of 2021, and our members welcomed the opportunity to engage with new material on this subject and reflect on their learnings from prior sessions. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN SUSTAINABILITY, INNOVATION AND THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (4IR) Our research is positioned for impact. Impact manifests in different ways - from “intangible” impacts, such as shifting attitudes about a particular issue, raising awareness, or influencing decisionmaking, to more “visible” results, such as creating economic opportunities and prospects for social mobility or improving our natural environment. The projects in our research portfolio show the diversity of impact areas and types of impacts emerging from our research activities: • Emerging technologies in South Africa: a landscape analysis. The Chair was contracted by the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s Eastern and Southern
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