Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development: insights from Africa and Latin America
by LORENTZEN, J. (ed), 2008HSRC Press: Cape Town
Minerals economies often struggle to diversify their industrial base. Lorenzten considers opportunities for industrial diversification stimulated in resource based industries. This know-how can then migrate laterally to other industrial uses. The resource-based technology clusters programme of the Human Sciences Research Council and Mintek proposed that this could be an important way for minerals economies to…
read more >>Resource-based technology innovation in South Africa, Gunric and RGR Valves.
by ROBERTS, S., 2005Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Roberts offers a case study of technology development in South African mining. This is the story of Gunric and RGR in the development of valves.
read more >>Innovation in Resource-Based Technology Clusters: Investigating the Lateral Migration Thesis – Muti from coal: science and politics of humic substance research in South Africa
by LORENTZEN, J. , 2006Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Lorentzen offers a case study of lateral migration of technology from resource sectors in South Africa. He focuses on the extraction of humic substances from coal. SA is the third biggest producer of coal in the world, mining about 35 million tons a year. Coal accounts for more than 90 percent of the country’s energy…
read more >>Innovation in Resource-Based Technology Clusters: Investigating the Lateral Migration Thesis – An analysis of hydraulic technologies in South Africa’s mining sector
by POGUE, T.E. & RAMPA, M., 2006Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Pogue & Rampa offer a case study of technology development from a resource sector in South Africa. They examine a co-operative initiative undertaken by South Africa’s gold mining companies through the Chamber of Mines Research Organisation (COMRO) in developing hydraulic technologies for mining in South Africa. After a brief description of the structure of these…
read more >>Resource-based Technology Innovation in South Africa: Mines and Medicine: Lodox Low Dosage X-ray
by GOSTNER, K. , 2005Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
This is a case study of lateral migration of technology from resource industries in South Africa. The introduction to a story on CNN.com/Health, dated 12 June 2003, reads: ‘A digital X-ray system once used to search South African miners for stolen diamonds will now allow Baltimore trauma doctors to scan a patient’s entire body in…
read more >>South African Mining Sector Employment: Forecast To 2025
by BAARTJES, N., 2011Research report, Centre for Poverty Employment and Growth, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria
Baartjes focuses on trends in mining employment in South Africa, per sector, and includes a long-term forecast. He provides a profile of employment in the sector from 1995 to 2010, and discusses input shocks (e.g. electricity supply) and the commodity boom. He then reviews the primary mining sectors – gold, platinum group metals, coal, diamonds, iron…
read more >>Mining Employment Scenarios for South Africa to 2024
by BAARTJES, N., AUCHTERLONIE, A., SORENSEN, P. & GOODE, R., 2007Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
Baartjes et al investigate the employment potential of the South African mining industry. They assess mining investment on a commodity-specific basis, the drivers of mining employment, how these relate to investment, and whether significant technological changes (greater mechanisation) would be widely adopted. This is followed by a discussion of employment, incomes and occupational skills levels,…
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