Innovation for Inclusive Development: NMMU Unpacked

PROF DARELLE VAN GREUNENCenter for Community Technologies

Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information TechnologyNelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Port Elizabeth, South Africa

DST IID Policy Seminar13 March 2015

Innovation

Development

Inclusive For Africa

By Africans

In Africa

Knowledge society

Proactive opportunities

Innovation

New or improved ways of thinking or doing things in a place where or by people for whom they have not been used before.

New ideas, perspectives, technologies, and meaningful social arrangements and relationships.

Innovation and Development

Evident advancement of societies

Inclusive Innovation

Government

Industry

Academia

Africa to be the leading innovator

The Role of Academia/Universities

New Knowledge Creation Processes

Self innovation Innovate others

Teaching and Research Approaches

Our recipe

A new perspective: Innovation for Inclusive Development

(IID)

“innovation that reduces poverty and enables as many groups of people,

especially the poor and vulnerable, to participate in decision-making, to

create and actualize opportunities, and to share the benefits of development.”

GOVERNMENT

UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY / FIRM

Inclusive model of innovation

CIVIL SOCIETY, POOR & VULNERABLE

COMMUNITIES

A fresh approach

Living Lab ecosystem

Open and engaging

Solution seeking

CreativeCommunity

Innovation for whom and for what kind of development?

Illustrative Cases

CCT – IID

User Experience

Human Capital Development

Industry buy-in: Academy

Healthcare

DST – catalyst

CSIR

NDoH

MRC

DBE

Child health Directorate

NGOs

Donald Woods Foundation

Jembi

FamHealth

Rural development

Environmental issues

Agriculture

Food security and nutrition

Human settlements

Entrepreneurship

Social development

Promotion of IKS

Inclusive learning

Access to education

Access to knowledge

Assistive technologies

What we are innovating nowM-Agriculture School Health Inclusive

EducationAssistive

TechnologiesYouth

Development

Food Security Community Care Workers

M-Learning Rehabilitation Aged Population

Farm Management

Compliance Digital Libraries

Early ChildhoodDevelopment

Biometrics

What we are doing now

Let us innovate

Prof Darelle van Greunen DirectorCenter for Community TechnologiesEmail: Darelle.vanGreunen@nmmu.ac.zaMobile: +27 825642 356

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