3rd Biennial R&D

Infrastructure,

Investment &

Innovation

Summit 2017 29 – 31 March 2017, Southern Sun O R Tambo Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Provider By Services SETA Accreditation No.

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P O Box 413629 Craighall

2024 SOUTH AFRICA

Key Industry Speakers:

Lukonga Lindunda, Co-Founder & Director, BONGOHIVE

Sangiwe Moyo, Chief Innovation Officer, AFRICA HEALTH PLACEMENTS

Stefan Louw, Founder, INNOVATE SOUTH AFRICA

Akhona Bashe, Engagement Manager, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY

(RIIS)

Jonathan Naidoo, Chief Executive Officer, SMARTEXCHANGE

Pria Chetty, Founder and Director, ENDCODE

Fredell Jocabs, Head of Impact Assurance, ALLAN GRAY ORBIS FOUNDATION

Wynand Fourie, Senior Associate, ADAMS & ADAMS

Jayshree Naidoo, Head of Incubator, STANDARD BANK

Dov Paluch, Managing Director, CATLYST RESEARCH

Sabelo Mnukwa, Head of Social Innovation, BAMBOO NETWORK

Dr Anthon Botha , Managing Director, TECHNOSCENE

What’s New in 2017?

Understanding the role of value creation in the research and development process

In depth discussions around the concepts of open innovation and how to implement

them

Highlighting trends and developments in open innovation

Removing social, economic, and industrial blocks to innovation, and R&D

Highlighting how to maximise on the home-grown advantage

Dear R&D Executive

Experts agree that research and development (R&D) is the backbone of a globally

competitive, knowledge-driven economy. R&D investment helps develop new

products and services that drive growth, create jobs, and improve the national

welfare. Whilst it plays a critical role in the innovation process, It’s essentially an

investment in technology and future capabilities which is transformed into new

products, processes, and services.

One of the key features of the African digital renaissance is that it is increasingly

home grown. In other sectors of the African economy, such as mining or

agribusiness, much of the knowledge is imported and the wealth extracted. But

Africa’s 700 million or so mobile subscribers use services that are provided locally,

and they are also downloading more applications that are developed locally.

The other the main sources of locally developed applications are the technology

hubs that are springing up across Africa. In a recent project carried out for the

Botswana Innovation Hub, where they worked with two of the longer established

labs, the research arm of *iHub in Kenya and BongoHive in Zambia, to create a map

of tech hubs. To their surprise, there are now around 90 tech hubs across the

continent, and more than half of Africa economies have at least one.

South Africa was the first to make it into double figures but other countries are not

far behind. Indeed, hubs such as MEST in Ghana, the Co-creation hub in Nigeria and

*iHub in Kenya are widely regarded as models. It has impressed the Kenyan

government enough for it to commit to establishing a tech hub in each of its 47

counties.

Join us as we continue to expand on Africa’s role as a knowledge contributor and

be part of the 3rd Biennial R&D Infrastructure, Investment, and Innovation Summit.

Where African governments, corporate leaders and educators will be discussing the progress on key strategic and logistical

challenges as well as the way forward to improving the state of the African research and development.

I look forward to welcoming you all at the 3rd Biennial Infrastructure, Investment, and Innovation Summit 2017

Yours in kind…

Amanda Bokleni, Project Manager

AMC International

3rd Biennial R&D Infrastructure,

Investment & Innovation

Summit 2017 29 – 31 March 2017, Southern Sun O R Tambo Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Group Executive: Research and

Development

Research Manager

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Technology Officer

Senior Researcher

Project Manager

Head of Research

Director

Research Fellow

Head of Communicable Diseases

Program Manager

Project Manager

Research Scientist

Head of School

Dean

Deputy Dean

Research Unit Manager / Director

Research Fellow

Lab coordinator

Senior lecturer

Emeritus Professor

Deputy Director:

Assistant Director

Director: Special Projects

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SUMMIT AGENDA Day One: Wednesday 29 March 2017

08:00 Registration and Early Morning Refreshments

08:50 Opening Remarks and Welcome Address

The Role of Global Innovation On Research and Development in Africa

09: 00 EVALUATING THE BUSINESS CASE FOR INNOVATION

AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH IN A COMPETITIVE

GLOBAL ECONOMY

Analysing the contributions made by private R&D

toward employment and growth

Ascertaining how innovation and industrial research

can influence policy makers

Discussing the impact on open markets and

economies

Lukonga Lindunda

Co-Founder & Executive Director

BongoHive

09:45 DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING COLLARATIONS

BETWEEN BUSINESS INDUSTRY AND HIGHER

EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN RESEARCH AND

DEVELOPMENT

Developing and evaluating management and

relations systems for effective relationships with

collaboration

Highlighting the pitfalls of minimal risk assessments

and planning when undertaking a collaboration

Determining best practices for effecting

transformation within these partnerships

Addressing the challenges in processes and

governance and coordination

Sangiwe Moyo

Chief Innovation Officer

Africa Health Placements

10:30 Midmorning Refreshments and Networking

11:00 ENABLING GRASSROOTS INNOVATON BY YOUTH

The role of grassroots innovation within South

Africa's innovation system

How to motivate the next generation of innovators

through gamification

Knowledge building through experiential learning

Building an enabling institutional context for

grassroots innovation

Lessons for developing a more inclusive innovation

system in South Africa

Stefan Louw

Founder

Innovate South Africa

11:45 PUTTING AFRICA’S DIGITAL RENAISSANCE INTO

PERSPECTIVE

Highlighting how to make the most of the home

grown advantage

Boosting innovations as a result of identifying needs

Utilising mobile connectivity to expand

opportunities for innovation

Discussing illustrations of controversies in the

African tech domain

Akhona Bashe

Engagement Manager

Research Institute of Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS)

12:30 NETWORKING LUNCH

13:30 OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES THAT HINDER

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION ON THE CONTINENT

Identifying the bottlenecks to development

Reviewing the progress made in the region as an

emerging entrepreneurship hub

Developing systems that bolster economic

development through entrepreneurship in

technological innovation

Ascertaining the feasibility of economic

transformation on the continent

Jonathan Naidoo

Chief Executive Officer

SmartXchange

Infrastructure and Investment Considerations Unique to the

Regional Landscape

14:15 REVIEWING THE LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES THAT

ARISE IN INNOVATION INFRASTRUCTURE

DEVELOPMENT

Addressing the need for policies and legislation to

evolve and encourage structures that harness

innovation

Examining international trends in policy changes

regarding innovations

Emphasizing the ethical dilemmas and implications

that new technologies present

Adapting policies to align with changes in the

dynamics

Pria Chetty

Founder & Director

EndCode

15:00 AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS

15:15 HIGHLIGHTING APPROACHES TO INCLUSIVE

INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS

BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS

Effectively initiating partnerships that mobilise

inclusive infrastructure

The role of tech hubs in inclusive infrastructure

development

Discussing the impact of inclusive infrastructure in

building capacity for technological innovation

Prioritising social inclusion in the development

blueprint

16:00 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks

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SUMMIT AGENDA

Day Two: Thursday 30 March 2017

08:00 Early Morning Refreshments

08:50 Opening Remarks and Welcome Address

09:00 ASCERTAINING AND IMPROVING THE BANKABILITY

OF INNOVATION INVESTMENT PROJECTS

Discussing the key elements in ensuring the

project’s financing is successful

Emphasizing the considerations which improve

bankability

Ensuring the project preparation and proposal

packaging is sufficient

Reviewing the options available for financing

Fredell Jacobs

Head of Impact Assurance

Allan Gray Orbis Foundation

09:45 ENSURING THE FRAMEWORK IS RIGHT: POLICIES AND

REGULATIONS FOR INCLUSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

Determining what constitutes as the right

framework for inclusion

Benchmarking against international cases and

instances

Identifying opportunities for empowering end

users through policies and regulations

Creating an environment that drives investment

policy towards innovation

Wynand Fourie

Senior Associate

Adams & Adams

10:30 Midmorning Refreshments and Networking

Open Innovation and Implications of Emerging

Technologies

11:00 EXAMINING VALUE CO-CREATION AND OPEN

INNOVATION AND DETERMINING THE EXTENT TO

WHICH THESE PARADIGMS ARE CONVERGING

Discussing value co-creation as an emerging

paradigm in management literature

Understanding the various ways coupled open

innovation processes are recognized

Illustrating how co-creation has been considered

as a means to enable union between open

innovation and user innovation theories

Ascertaining to what extent open innovation and

value co-creation paradigms converge

Jayshree Naidoo

Head: Incubator

Standard Bank

11:45 UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPLES OF VALUE

CREATION IN THE CONTEXT OF OPEN INNOVATION

Understanding the open innovation landscape

Creating value from open innovation while

simultaneously addressing risks to value capture

Delving into the causes of tensions between value

creation and value capture

Investigating strategies and solutions to the

tensions that arise

Discussing proven approaches to managing and

resolving the tension between value creation and

value capture

OPEN DISCUSSION

12:30 NETWORKING LUNCH

13:30 CROWDSOURCING, DIGITISATION AND

ACCELARATION: IS CORPORATE R&D DISRUPTING

ITSELF?

Investigating new approaches to developing

innovative products and services

The role of Automation and digitisation and how

they are influencing R&D processes

Ascertaining whether corporates will disrupt

themselves or whether they will remain relevant

as they are in the near future

Examining casework and research findings

Dov Paluch

Managing Director

Catalyst Research

14:15 MANAGING THE UNCERTAINITIES OF EMERGING

TECHNOLOGY SCALE-UP

Discussing the dynamics that allow for

technologies to create economic, social or

environmental value

Understanding the challenges faced by various

R&D, manufacturing and deployment activities

Understanding how these challenges threaten to

reduce the functionality, manufacturability and

viability of the resulting product

Discussing the relevance of these challenges to

researchers and their funders and how

researchers have become sensitised to them

Exploring how these risks might be anticipated

and effectively managed

Sabelo Mnukwa

Head of Social Innovation

Bamboo Network

15:15 AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS

15:30 REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS AND THE IMPACT

ON ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT, CLUSTERS AND

NETWORKS

Capitalising on entrepreneurial discovery and

smart specialisation for regional development and

growth

Understanding how best to stimulate enterprise

and cluster development to enhance such

regional innovation systems

Stimulating entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial

activities in existing business and how this links to

clusters and networks

Investigating from a global perspective how

different countries are addressing such policy

challenges

OPEN DISCUSSION

16:15 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks

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Day Three: Friday 31 March 2017 08:00 Early Morning Refreshments 08:50 Opening Remarks and Welcome Address

Half-Day Workshop: Organisational Bottlenecks and Barriers to Innovation: Insights for New Innovation Policy Instruments Innovation policy covers a broad range of instruments to respond to complex socio-economic and institutional dynamics associated with new technologies. In this context policy instruments are often designed to remove obstacles and barriers that could hinder organisations' and/or innovation systems' ability to innovate. They represent government interventions that effectively solve problems on the intra- and inter-organisational as well as on the system level. However, little is known regarding R&D bottlenecks and barriers on the organisational level and its implications for the choice and design of innovation policy instruments. The purpose of this session is to promote empirical and conceptual contributions, which give insight into specific R&D and innovation management bottlenecks as well as policy instruments in order to discuss new or adjusted policy requirements. Dr Anthon Botha Chief Executive Officer TechnoScene 10:30- 11:00 Mid-morning Refreshments 12:30- 13:30 Lunch Close of conference

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3rd Biennial R&D Infrastructure, Investment &

Innovation Summit 2017 29 – 31 March 2017, Southern Sun O R Tambo Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa

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