Innovation in Resource-Based Technology Clusters: Investigating the Lateral Migration Thesis – Muti from coal: science and politics of humic substance research in South Africa
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…
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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…
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