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Johannesburg, 23 July 2026. Three new reports highlight the South African mining sector’s journey to modernise operations, with the Minerals Council South Africa and key stakeholders releasing studies into research, development and innovation (RDI)…

Pretoria, Thursday 30 October 2025 — The latest South African National Survey of Research and Experimental Development (R&D Survey) reveals that nominal Gross Domestic Expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) was R43.413 billion. In 2015…

Pretoria, Wednesday 4 June 2025 – The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), on behalf of the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), is calling on South African businesses to participate in two of its business innovation surveys,…

Pretoria, Thursday, 28 November 2024 – Gross domestic expenditure on R&D in South Africa, in real terms, grew to R28.282 billion in 2022/23, a 2.1 per cent year-on-year increase from R27.712 billion in 2021/22. However, according to the results…

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Pretoria, Thursday, 7 March 2024 – Innovation-active South African businesses have better access to external knowledge and are more integrated into global markets, according to results from the latest round of the South African Business Innovation…

Pretoria, Thursday, 15 February 2024 – The Human Sciences Research Council’s (HSRC) South African National Survey of Research and Experimental Development reveals that the gross domestic expenditure on research and development (GERD) has risen in…

Pretoria, Wednesday 18 January 2023 – The South African National Survey of Research and Experimental Development conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council for the Department of Science and Innovation has found that research and experimental…

Thursday, 24 February 2022 – On  14 March 2022 South Africa’s official Business Innovation Survey gets underway with fieldworkers reaching out to 5 500 businesses over the next six months. This will be the seventh time the survey…