Browsing by Author "Botha, Louisa"

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    The evaluation of innovation for inclusive development projects
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03) Botha, Louisa; Grobbelaar, Sara; Bam, Wouter; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Engineering. Dept. of Industrial Engineering.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Innovation for inclusive development aims to not only produce products and services for base of the pyramid (BoP) markets, but also to improve innovative capacity and empower those in marginalised communities. Although a wide range of actors aim to support innovation for inclusive development, they lack proper methods to assess the impact that these projects have. This study sets out to develop a framework and tool to guide the evaluation of University-driven Technology-based Innovation for Inclusive Development (UTIID) projects in order to evaluate performance, identify weaknesses and classify project outcomes. A systematic literature review is conducted to identify an evaluation approach from the extant literature that may best be able to evaluate UTIID projects. Based on the review, a process-level, innovation system (IS) approach, namely the component-function approach is identified as the most appropriate approach for the evaluation of UTIID projects. This approach is focused on the components within a system and the changes that occur through the interaction of the components in the system functions. An empirical study is conducted on 16 UTIID projects from four different universities in the Western Cape region of South Africa. These case studies are used for several purposes (1) to investigate the current state of monitoring and evaluation in UTIID projects; (2) to map the inputs, outputs and outcomes of these projects in order to construct a typology; and (3) to validate the use of the component-function approach as an UTIID project evaluation approach. The empirical findings reveal that there are no incentives for UTIID projects to perform outcome evaluations. Several inputs, outputs and outcomes were identified for the studied UTIID projects and these were synthesised into a typology. The application of the component-function analytical framework to the 16 UTIID projects indicated that the component-function analytical framework was an effective method to evaluate the system performance, identify system weaknesses and to propose tools to address the systemic weaknesses within UTIID projects. Lastly, the developed typologies and component-function analytical framework are used to assemble an UTIID project evaluation tool that enables the evaluation of UTIID projects at a systems level and classify project outcomes.
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    Towards a framework to guide the evaluation of inclusive innovation systems
    (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2016) Botha, Louisa; Grobbelaar, Sara; Bam, Wouter
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Innovation for inclusive development aims not only to produce products and services for ‘base of the pyramid’ (BoP) markets, but also to improve innovative capacity and empower those that form part of the BoP. Although a wide range of actors aim to support innovation for inclusive development, they lack proper methods to assess the impact that these projects have. This paper sets out to identify an appropriate method or approach for evaluating systems change brought about by innovation for inclusive development projects. Based on a systematic literature review, a process-level approach is proposed. This approach is focused on the components within a system and the changes that occur in the system functions.