QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA’S INVENTIVE OUTPUTS: INTERNATIONAL PATENT ANALYSIS

<p>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article aims to identify and analyse the inventive activity of South Africans as it is manifested in the form of patents. Patents are used internationally as indicators of national and corporate inventive activity, but they rarely are reported in the context o...

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Main Author: A. Pouris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Stellenbosch University 2012-01-01
Series:South African Journal of Industrial Engineering
Online Access:http://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/80