Creating knowledge networks: working partnerships in higher education, industry and innovation
OUTPUT TYPE: Monograph (Book)
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2006
TITLE EDITOR(S): G.Kruss
KEYWORDS: HIGHER EDUCATION, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, KNOWLEDGE SHARING
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/creating-knowledge-networks
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 3732
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6883
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6883
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2006
TITLE EDITOR(S): G.Kruss
KEYWORDS: HIGHER EDUCATION, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, KNOWLEDGE SHARING
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/creating-knowledge-networks
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 3732
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6883
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6883
If you would like to obtain a copy of this Research Output, please contact Hanlie Baudin at researchoutputs@hsrc.ac.za.
Abstract
The new science and technology framework has challenged higher education institutions in South Africa to create research partnerships with industry, to contribute to growing a national system of innovation. Through detailed case studies, this monograph explores how one new organisational form typical of the knowledge society, the network, is currently being created in practice, in all its complex and contingent reality, in three high technology fields. It is the third volume in the Working Partnerships: Higher Education, Industry and Innovation series. The case studies show that knowledge networks are primarily shaped by the competitive dynamics of the industrial sub-sector within which partner enterprises operate, intersecting with the levels of scientific and managerial expertise within higher education partner institutions, and facilitated by government policy steering mechanisms and intermediary partners. The intersection of interests gives all partners a stake in the research project at the heart of the knowledge network, and builds the levels of trust required to succeed. The analysis highlights some of the possibilities and constraints evident in the current policy context, suggesting that state attempts to steer the system need to be more nuanced and targeted, informed by the specificity of sectoral dynamics, and it suggests that universities need to identify their own strategic solutions to develop a flexible and adaptive institutional approach to networks.-
Related Research Outputs:
- 'Learning' through networks in South Africa
- Creating knowledge networks: higher education, industry and innovation in South Africa
- Innovation policy and higher education in South Africa: addressing the challenge
- Linking knowledge producers and marginalised communities
- Innovation studies from a southern perspective: what new insights for comparative and international education?
- The impact of institutional mergers on information systems and blended learning provision in South African higher education
- Financial or intellectual imperatives
- Higher education and contemporary challenges: investigating industry partnerships and networks
- Information and communication technology networks: leading or following the economic sector?
- Harnessing innovation potential?: institutional approaches to industry-higher education research partnerships in South Africa
- Research, research productivity and the state in South Africa
- Competition policy and innovation
- The Durban auto cluster: global competition, collective efficiency and local development
- Balancing old and new organisational forms: changing dynamics of government, industry and university interaction in South Africa
- Main results of the South African innovation survey 2005
- Towards dialogue: higher education's role in innovation and social engagement
- Conceptions of higher education, development-oriented social engagement and innovation in the SADC context
- Science communication and archival depositories of power: the need for a transdisciplinary approach to research
- Contested ecologies: dialogues in the south on nature and knowledge
- Doing things better in marginalised rural localities