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2024
- 202403 Technological Capability and Industrialisation in Africa
by Emmanuel Mensah & Gideon Ndubuisi
2023
- 202310 Trade Liberalisation, Household Welfare and Earnings Inequality in South Africa
by Lawrence Edwards & Refilwe Lepelle - 202309 Upgrading Trajectories in South Africa: Exploring the Roles of Customer and Supplier Link Types in Manufacturers’ Economic, Social and Environmental Upgrading
by Rachel Alexander & Aarti Krishnan - 202308 Structural Change and Development Through Agricultural Exports: Performance and Policies
by Christopher Cramer - 202307 Introducing a South African Manufacturing Health Index (SA-MHI): Concept Paper
by Justin Barnes - 202306 Who are the Robots Coming For? The Evolving Task Content of Employment in South Africa
by Haroon Bhorat & Robert Hill & Timothy Köhler & Jabulile Monnakgotla & François Steenkamp - 202302 Digital Customs Transformation for Effective Trade Facilitation and Revenue Collection
by Lucienne Abrahams & Mark Burke & Trudi Hartzenberg - 202301 New technologies in robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, the internet of things, smart sensors and 3D printing are seen as disruptive technologies that will change manufacturing. This paper argues that the sustainability shift in apparel and textile global supply chains has led to innovations that combine digitalisation and biotechnology in ways that will have bigger disruptive effects on the global apparel and textile industry. It examines the extent to which South African textile firms are adopting 4IR technologies as well as environmental sustainability technologies in their business strategies, drawing on original empirical materials from a survey of a sample of textile firms carried out in August 2022. South Africa’s textile and apparel industry stagnated even before trade liberalisation in the mid1990s and was not competitive at the time of opening to the global economy, because firms had not kept up with technological changes. Only when the South African retailers faced growing competition from international retail corporations in the late 2010s did the industry actors come together and commit to investments to make the local supply chain more competitive. The survey findings show a quite limited adoption of 4IR technologies among textile firms. Firms that produced relatively higher value products had adopted some aspects of 4IR and newer machines. In contrast, firms producing low-value products for retailers focussed on the low-value segment did not as their product type made such technologies unnecessary, and their profit margins were not capable of affording them in the short term. The findings also point to structural constraints within the South African textile and apparel industry and the general domestic economy that limit the adoption of 4IR and sustainability technologies. In concluding, we argue that the South African textile and apparel industry is relatively well placed to capitalise on the window of opportunity to adopt the latest fibre and textile technologies and to engage in research and development in these areas, and that doing so will increase the competitiveness of the industry and position it better to export
by Lindsay Whitfield & Vuyiswa Mkhabela
2022
- 202214 The Mediating Role of IT Ambidexterity in the Relationship between Artificial Intelligence Capability and Organisational Agility
by Waseem Rawat & Justin Barnes - 202213 Determinants of the Adoption of Digital Technologies in South African Manufacturing: Evidence from a Firm-level Survey
by Elvis K. Avenyo & Jason F. Bell & Julius Nyamwena - 202212 Manufacturing Technology Intensity, Employment, Wages and Capital Formation in Africa
by Richard E. Itaman & Oluwafemi E. Awopegba - 202211 The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Implications for Economic Policy
by Arkebe Oqubay - 202210 African Industrial Hubs and Industrialisation: Diversity, Unevenness, and Strategic Approach
by Arkebe Oqubay - 202209 Digitalisation, Innovation and Productivity in South African Micro- and Small Enterprises
by Cyrielle Gaglio & Erika Kraemer-Mbula & Edward Lorenz - 202208 Industrial policy for prematurely deindustrialized economies after the Covid-19 pandemic crisis: Integrating economic, social and environmental goals with policy proposals for Brazil
by André Nassif & Paulo César Morceiro - 202207 Innovation complementarities in small and micro-enterprises in Johannesburg, South Africa
by Godfrey Kamutando & Fiona Tregenna - 202206 Is Manufacturing in Africa Constrained by Finance? An Empirical Analysis of the Finance Manufacturing Nexus
by Richard E. Itaman - 202205 Positioning the South African Economy for New Industries: Policy Lessons from East Asia
by Rendani Mamphiswana - 202204 How do cognitive proximity and knowledge networks affect firms’ innovation? Evidence from micro and small firms in Johannesburg, South Africa
by Jefferson Galetti & Fiona Tregenna - 202203 Innovation and socio-economic development challenges in South Africa: An overview of indicators and trends
by Alexis Habiyaremye & Nicola A King & Fiona Tregenna - 202202 Firm Innovation in Africa and Latin America: Heterogeneity and Country Context
by Eva Paus & Michael Robinson & Fiona Tregenna - 202201 Industrial Policy for a Just Transition to a Green Economy – The Importance of Regional Food Value Chains in Southern Africa
by Lauralyn Kaziboni & Simon Roberts
2021
- 202112 Demand-led Industrialisation Policy in a Dual-sector Small Balance of Payments Constrained Economy
by Önder Nomaler & Danilo Spinola & Bart Verspagen - 202111 Key Opportunities and Challenges for 4IR in South Africa
by Rachel Alexander - 202110 The Fourth Industrial Revolution in South African Manufacturing and Connectivity: Case Studies of Automotive and Mining Equipment Manufacturing, along with Transportation and ICT Infrastructure and Services
by Rachel Alexander - 202109 Assessing the Ability of the National Innovation System of South Africa to Facilitate the Fourth Industrial Revolution
by Rachel Alexander - 202108 The Fourth Industrial Revolution and National Innovation Systems: Key Concepts and Snapshot of South Africa
by Rachel Alexander - 202107 Late Industrialisation under Platform Capitalism
by Wim Naudé - 202106 Creating employment and reducing emissions: Options for South Africa
by Harald Winkler & Anthony Black - 202105 Growth Regimes and Uneven Development in Open Economies: Demand and Distribution Regimes in the context of Global Value Chains
by Arpan Ganguly - 202104 Input-output linkages and interdependence between countries in the southern African development community (SADC)
by Phumzile Ncube & Fiona Tregenna - 202103 Firm Innovation and Employment in South Africa: Examining the Role of Export Participation and Innovation Novelty
by Karmen Naidoo & Marta Bengoa & Erika Kraemer-Mbula & Fiona Tregenna - 202102 Challenges and Complexities of the South African Economy
by Fiona Tregenna & Arabo Ewinyu & Arkebe Oqubay & Imraan Valodia - 202101 Can Apparel Export Industries Catalyse Industrialisation? Combining GVC Participation and Localisation
by Lindsay Whitfield & Kristoffer Marslev & Cornelia Staritz