3rd Biennial R&D Infrastructure, Investment & Innovation Summit 2017

1. 3rd Biennial R&D
Infrastructure,
Investment &
Innovation
Summit 2017
29 – 31 March 2017, Southern Sun O R Tambo
Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa
Accredited Training
Provider By Services SETA
Accreditation No.
2287
Tel: +27 (0) 11 341 1000
Fax: +27 (0) 11 268 6785
Email: info@amc-intsa.com
Website: www.amc-intsa.com
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

2. 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

4.  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?

5.  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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Accreditation No.
2287
Tel: +27 (0) 11 341 1000
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Website: www.amc-intsa.com
P O Box 413629
Craighall
2024
SOUTH AFRICA