This document charts an investment path for achieving South Africa’s science and socio-economic ambitions. This NRF proposal centres on an increase in the country’s current investments in human capital development at the high-end skills levels, making it possible to generate 1% of global R&D output (based on 2011 figures), to produce some 6 000 PhDs per annum and to make the adjustments to the graduate pipeline that will be needed to achieve these goals.
