The COFISA Book was launched on 18 February 2010 at the COFISA CLOSING CONFERENCE by the SA National Coordinator, Mrs Nirvashnee Seetal.
INTRODUCTION
Globalisation makes countries and economies increasingly competitive and offers considerable opportunities for those who can seize what globalisation makes available. Globalisation increases the mobility of goods, money, capital, people, ideas, cultures and values across borders with increased interdependency between countries, economies and cultures. For those who are not able to do so, globalisation poses great risks of further marginalisation from global trade and investment flows, and even of disappearing from the map of global markets. Many of the leading countries in the global economy are knowledge-based economies which have invested in education, research and development and through those investments have been able to build their innovation system and science and technology base. An innovation system consists of producers of knowledge (researchers and communities of practice), users of knowledge and their interactions. The key elements of an innovation system are education, research and development, and knowledge-intensive industries. But the key question is:
Why Innovation Systems or Science and Technology?
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