INDUSTRY STUDIES and working papers

Year 6

  1. Localisation in South Africa: Analysis of key emerging issues

  2. Scaling up South Africa’s Black Industrialist Scheme (BIS): Opportunities and Challenges

  3. The impact of competition law remedies on public interest

  4. Digital Technology Adoption in Agro-processing Value Chains

  5. Market development for regional industrialization and sustainability: the case of the soybean to poultry value chain

  6. The IDC and green industrialisation in South Africa

Year 5

  1. Determinants of digital technologies’ adoption in South African manufacturing: Evidence from a firm-level survey

  2. Climate change policies and trade: Implications for industrial policy in South Africa

Year 4

  1. Identifying vulnerable and priority manufacturing sectors for economic recovery in South Africa: An empirical approach

  2. Emerging issues for industrial policy in South Africa

Year 3

  1. Data Governance: Towards a Policy Framework

  2. Developing International Perspectives on Digital Competition Policy

  3. Digitalisation, Data and Open Banking: A South African Perspective

  4. The Impact of Digital Platforms on Competition in the South African Tourism Industry

yEAR 2

  1. Understanding Technological Competitiveness and Supply Chain Deepening in Plastic Auto Components in Thailand

  2. Online Retailing in South Africa

  3. Strategies for Adapting to Online Entry

  4. Technological developments in South Africa’s fruit industry and implications for market access & participation

  5. Issues in the Regulation and Policy Surrounding E-Commerce in South Africa

  6. The Role of Lead Firms in the Development of Production Ecosystems in Process Equipment and Aerospace

  7. Black Industrialists, Barriers to Entry, and Appropriate Interventions

  8. Governance of poultry value chains – a comparative perspective on developing capabilities in South Africa and Brazil

  9. A critical review of international cluster and other sector-support initiatives in the mining equipment & machinery sector

yEAR 1

  1. Structural Transformation in Agriculture and Agro-processing Value Chain

  2. Structural Transformation in the Auto Sector

  3. Structural transformation along metals, machinery and equipment value chain

  4. Comparative Study: Stuck in the middle: Premature Deindustrialisation and Industrial Policy

Policy Briefs

Year 6

  1. Localisation and Industrialisation Nexus: Lessons for South Africa

  2. Ingredients for a successful localisation policy in South Africa

  3. The European Green Deal: Emerging issues and policy considerations in South Africa’s citrus and wine sectors

  4. South Africa’s Country Investment Strategy: A case for manufacturing investment for improved regional integration and industrial capacity

  5. Financing digital industrialisation in South Africa: Emerging issues

  6. Digital Technologies as Standards in Agro-processing Value Chains

  7. Digital capabilities in South African manufacturing firms: What matters?

  8. Economic regulation of the energy sector for renewable energy generation and storage technologies

  9. Enhancing Economic Regulation and Competitiveness in South Africa’s Transport Sector: Challenges and Strategic Interventions in Ports and Rail

YEAR 5

  1. Climate change and trade to the EU: Priority sectors for policy intervention in South Africa

  2. Leveraging investment strategies of African Multinational Corporations (AMNCs) for improved regional integration and industrial capacity

  3. Development finance and regional industrialisation finance

  4. Making regional value chains work: Lessons from AFCFTA

  5. Implications of COVID-19 on Digital Transformation in South Africa

  6. Digital industrialisation of freshness

  7. Large firms’ strategies and investment for economic recovery in South Africa

  8. Case studies on large firm strategy: Corporate restructuring, internationalisation and shareholder value

     

Year 4

  1. Industry associations as growth coalitions: Lessons from South Africa’s citrus industry

  2. South Africa’s economic recovery plans: What are the missing pieces for a sustainable and inclusive drive towards industrialisation?

  3. Awakening industrial economic recovery in South Africa

  4. International industrial policy responses to COVID-19: Lessons for South Africa

  5. Supporting inclusion of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in foodtech in South Africa

  6. E-commerce in a post-Covid-19 era: Building on industry gains

  7. Covid-19 and economic recovery policies in Latin America

  8. The medium- and long-term implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for the restructuring of global value chains and labour in developing countries

Year 3

  1. Note on WTO moratorium on electronic transmissions

  2. Data centres: How digitalisation and green investments come together

  3. Data governance matters: Lessons for South Africa

  4. Regulating digital platforms for economic development

  5. Policy proposals for South Africa on the digital economy

  6. Are we doing enough to support small and medium-sized food processors and alternative routes to market during and after COVID-19?

  7. The nature of funding matters - making development finance work for South Africa’s SMEs in the COVID-19 crisis

  8. E-commerce and potential responses in an era of COVID-19

  9. Data governance: Towards a policy framework

  10. Can clustering drive South Africa’s economy forward in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the Thai auto industry

Year 2

  1. Machinery, Equipment and Electronic Control Systems: Leading Reindustrialisation in Southern Africa

  2. Repositioning the Future of the South African Automotive Industry

  3. Technological Developments and the ‘Industrialisation of Freshness’ in Fresh Fruit Supply

  4. Practical Implications for the South African Food Processing Industry

  5. Repositioning the Future of the South African Chemicals Industry

  6. An E-Commerce Revolution in Retail?

  7. Repositioning the Future of the South African Clothing and Textile Industries

  8. Digital Disruptions in the Yellow Metals Industry: The Role for Government Response

  9. The Cape Town Software Development Cluster

  10. Digital Transformation of the Plastic Products Factory

  11. Managing the Transition to Electric Vehicle Technology

  12. An Effective Online Retail Strategy Will Allow SA to Catch Up with Big Guns

  13. Talk of a Fourth Industrial Revolution is Almost Meaningless Without Cheaper Data

  14. Leveraging Technologies to Boost Exports in the Fruit Industry

  15. Building Technological Competitiveness and Deepening the Auto Supply Chain Through Plastic Auto Components

  16. Black Industrialists - It’s Not Just About Funding

Year 1

  1. Concentration, profits and investment: Let’s focus on the structure of the economy, not “cash hoarding”

  2. Structural transformation to grow high-value exports and jobs: the case of fruit

  3. Structural transformation, competition and economic power

  4. Structural transformation: The impact of municipal electricity pricing policy on the foundry industry

  5. The auto industry needs regional integration – can it happen?

  6. Localisation and Supply Chain Development in the SA Auto Industry

  7. Structural transformation in agro-processing: Addressing concentration levels and greater market access in dairy and sugar value chains

  8. Upstream strategies and support in the metals and machinery value chain: Industrial policy lessons

  9. Recommendations for Structural Transformation and job creation in South Africa: Towards a Smart, Open Economy for All

  10. Rewriting the rules governing the South African Economy: A new political settlement for industrial development

  11. Stuck in the Middle: South Africa in the New Global Industrial Landscape

  12. Industrial Policies for Middle-Income Countries