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Understanding interactive capabilities for skills development in sectoral systems of innovation: A case study of the tier 1 automotive component sector in the Eastern Cape


Date posted:

2022/11/01

Publication year:

2015

Corporate author/s:

Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP)

Person/s author/s:

McGrath, Simon

Output-type:

working paper

Format:

pdf

As part of a larger study of sectors of the South African economy and their interactions with the post-school education and training system, this report focuses on the Eastern Cape and on the Tier 1 firms: the main component suppliers to the automotive manufacturers. The report proceeds by describing the automotive SSI in Chapter 2, through a mixture of consideration of the existing policy and academic literature about the sector (including its national and global contexts) and a variety of mapping approaches, including network analyses, the presentation of an SSI conceptual model and a spatial representation of the sector in the Eastern Cape. Chapter 3 explores the skills needs and strategies of 21 Tier 1 firms. Chapter 4 looks at a set of public and private intermediary organisations working with the sector in the Eastern Cape to gauge their contribution to sectoral alignment. Chapter 5 focuses on post-school education and training providers, considering, in turn, public higher education; public further education and training; and private provision to explore their competences and capabilities to support the SSI. Finally, chapter 6 summarises the report and considers its potential policy implications.

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