JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The results of a study on the modernisation of South African mining indicate that there is considerable room to increase innovation participation and intensity across the firms surveyed.
The finding was communicated at South Africa’s Mining Modernisation Showcase, where a strong partnership was visible between Minerals Council South Africa, the Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS), the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators’ specialised research unit within South Africa's Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC-CeSTII), PwC Smart Mining, the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation, and the National Advisory Council on Innovation. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)
At the event, the modernisation of South Africa’s mining sector was described as being “an urgent strategic priority for the South African economy” amid South Africa ending up tenth in a ten-country global benchmarking exercise to understand the best practices being undertaken by other mining jurisdictions across the globe and see what lessons South Africa could implement from them.
Modernisation is about building a more efficient and resilient and competitive South African mining industry that can thrive in the future.
