SOUTH AFRICAN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION INDICATORS 2023

The 2019 White Paper on Science, Technology and Innovation empowers the National Advisory of Innovation (NACI) to monitor and evaluate South Africa’s national system of innovation (NSI). Consequently, NACI has produced the
2023 STI Indicators Report based on NACI’s NSI monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework. The report serves to provide “isibuko” or “mirror” the NSI.
The report offers an opportunity for NSI actors to pause and reflect about the state of and knowledge about the NSI through the data and information it provides. It deliberately offers little or no interpretation and recommendations.
Complementary studies are being encouraged to deepen understanding and interpretation of the evidence contained in the report.