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SARChI-ID maintains a broad network of institutional partnerships that support its research, policy engagement, and capacity building activities. The collaborations listed below reflect sustained engagements until 2025.

Collaborations within the 东京热

  • The Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development
    (CCRED) is a key strategic partner of SARChI-ID. Between 2020 and 2024,
    the two entities collaborated on numerous initiatives, including:

    • Joint research on digitalisation and skills in manufacturing
    • The Industrial Development Think Tank (IDTT) 鈥� a major multi-year programme jointly undertaken by the dtic, SARChI-ID and CCRED (hosted at CCRED), which produced extensive policy-oriented research, primary data collection, and a wide range of events and outputs.
  • The AIP21 Collaborative Research Network

National Collaborations (South Africa)

  • SARChI-ID also worked with several South African institutions during this
    period, including:

    • Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU), University of Cape Town
    • DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Economic Growth, Poverty and Inequality Research, University of Cape Town
  • DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in City-Region Economies, University of the Free
    State
  • Africa Centre for Evidence (ACE)
  • Learning Information Networking Knowledge (LINK) Centre
  • Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
  • Policy Research in International Services and Manufacturing (PRISM),University of Cape Town
  • Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS), University of the Witwatersrand
  • Department of Science and Innovation (DSI)
  • Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ)
  • Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
  • Toyota Wessels Institute for Manufacturing Studies (TWIMS)

Continental and International Collaborations

  • SARChI-ID鈥檚 international footprint includes collaborations with:
  • Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • Africa Industrial Policy in the 21st Century (AIP-21) Collaborative Research Network
  • African Centre for the Economic Transformation (ACET), Ghana
  • African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (Aporde)
  • African Vaccine Manufacturing Initiative (AVMI)
  • Data for AI for African Trade (DAIAT), a consortium of scholars and institutions from University College Cork, Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Trade Advisory, GIBS (University of Pretoria), University of Ghana, University of Plymouth, UNCTAD, and ZINDI
  • Global Access in Action (GAIA), Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, Harvard University
  • TIDE Centre 鈥� Technology and Industrialisation for Development, Oxford University
  • United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)
  • University of Rwanda
  • University of the West of England, United Kingdom (UWE)
  • Young Scholars Initiative (YSI)

Please note: this list excludes institutions involved only in one-off events and includes organisations that partnered with SARChI-ID as part of larger multi- institutional initiatives.