Project

Technological knowledge: A new structure

The purpose of this project is to help energize the innovation chain — the sequence of events that leads from scientific discovery, to technological progress and on to practical application.

Rias Van Wyk

Project

Informational Development and Human Development: South Africa in a Global Perspective

In a current comparative research project the interaction between informational development and human development has been examined in various contexts, including Finland, Silicon Valley, Chile and Taiwan.

Manuel Castells Manuel Castells

Project

Seaports and Development: Nigeria and Angola since the 1980s

Can seaports function as growth poles outside the Traditional Maritime Nations?

Ayodeji Olukoju Ayodeji Olukoju

Publication

Threshold effects of public debt on economic growth in South Africa: an application of a regression kink with an unknown threshold

Ndoricimpa, Arcade. 2022. Threshold effects of public debt on economic growth in South Africa: an application of a regression kink with an u...

Arcade Ndoricimpa Arcade Ndoricimpa

Publication

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World

Deirdre N. McCloskey. 2011. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World. University Of Chicago Press. 592 pp. ISBN-10: 0...

Publication

Sklaven des Wachstums

Reiner Klingholz. 2014. Sklaven des Wachstums. Campus Verlag (Frankfurt am Main, 348 pp). ISBN: 978-3-593-39798-6

Reiner Klingholz Reiner Klingholz

Project

Science and development: Growth, expansion and role of university systems in emerging economies

The challenge of economic growth for middle income countries includes technological upgrading, which, in turn, demands expansion and improvement of the higher education and science system.

Robin Cowan Robin Cowan