Overview of research partnerships in high-technology fields, revealing tensions between financial imperatives and intellectual goals.
This article presents an overview of research partnership activity across the South African higher education system in three cutting-edge high-technology fields. An analytical matrix of partnership forms is developed, shaped by distinct responses to the tension between the new financial imperatives and the traditional intellectual project of higher education.
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Human Sciences Research Council (2026) studied this question.