DST Ten Year Innovation Plan

The purpose of this Ten-Year Innovation Plan is to help drive South Africa’s transformation
towards a knowledge-based economy, in which the production and dissemination of
knowledge leads to economic benefits and enriches all fields of human endeavour.
The plan builds on previous work undertaken by the Department of Science and
Technology (DST). It is not, however, a compendium of existing programmes. Instead,
it is a high-level presentation of the principal challenges identified by the DST, starting
not from where South Africa is today, but where we should be a decade from now.
The core projections for 2018 are summarised as South Africa’s “grand challenges”
in science and technology.