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Indicators used in tracking innovation in Africa are borrowed from high-income countries. Getty Images

July 29, 2025

Africa’s innovations are overlooked because global measures don’t fit: what needs to change

Abiodun Egbetokun, De Montfort University; David Adeyeye, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM); Glenda Kruss, Human Sciences Research Council; Il-haam Petersen, Human Sciences Research Council, and Maruf Sanni, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM)

Many of Africa’s most powerful innovations are not being measured correctly.

Mining and utilities businesses have low levels of innovation. Getty Images

July 20, 2020

Survey shows South African firms in some sectors are highly innovative

Glenda Kruss, Human Sciences Research Council and Moses Sithole, Human Sciences Research Council

South African businesses have typically invested in innovation activities that help them prepare for technological and organisational change.

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June 4, 2018

How South Africa’s services sector can help tackle poverty and inequality

Glenda Kruss, Human Sciences Research Council and Moses Sithole, Human Sciences Research Council

South Africa needs to harness its service sector into an innovative and export orientated way to push back poverty, unemployment and inequality.

Tankiso Motaung, an unemployed South African university graduate, takes his hunt for a job to the street in Johannesburg. The Star/Paballo Thekiso

September 20, 2016

Class and race shape how young South Africans access the job market

Glenda Kruss, Human Sciences Research Council

Many young South Africans struggle to get a job due to the high levels of unemployment. But access to information, which is influenced by race and class, increases the chances of getting employed.

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