NSI State of Science

This Report follows a request from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) to the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) for an independent critical appraisal of the State of the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) System in South Africa.
It follows and builds on two other system reviews, the 2007 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Review of Innovation Policy
and the 2012 Ministerial Review Committee report on the STI landscape. Most importantly, the Report considers how the National System of Innovation(NSI) is
conceived of within the National Development Plan (NDP) and the expectations that attach to its functioning in this context.
The six chapters of the Report take stock of where the country was in 1994, and where it is now, two decades after the fi rst democratic election. The Report
provides a critical analysis of the NSI and, where possible, seeks to make better use of economic analysis and draws on international experience to tease out the issues. It identifies knowledge deficiencies and offers some immediate recommendations and suggested areas for future research.