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The HSRC Research Data Service provides a digital repository facility for the HSRC's research data in support of evidence based human and social development in South Africa and the broader region. Access to data is dependent on ethical requirements for protecting research participants, as well as on legal agreements with the owners, funders or in the case of data owned by the HSRC, the requirements of the depositors of the data. We facilitate data use by preparing comprehensive metadata and disseminating data and related documents to appropriate target audiences. Data sharing is subject to an End User License agreement. Data sets from the following projects have been curated and are available for use:
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Research data: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
2021 Effectiveness of technology transfer in public research institutions in South Africa: a critical review of national indicators and implications for future measurement
South Africa's poor economic performance in recent years has prompted calls by policymakers for structural transformation. To break the impa...
2017 South African national survey of intellectual property and technology transfer at publicly funded research institutions: inaugural baseline study: 2008-2014
This survey establishes baseline indicators required to track overall activity in Intellectual Property (IP) management and Technology Trans...
Download this report2017 Technology transfer in South Africa: the road ahead
The journey of a researcher or entrepreneur's good idea to a viable and scalable technology which can be commercialised can be helped along ...
2017 Technology transformation and changing demographic patterns: perspectives for Africa
The last decade of the 21st century has so far seen many important elections on the African continent. These elections offer windows for the...