• LINKING EDUCATION AND THE LOCAL ECONOMY, intermediaries in a future ecosystem

LINKING EDUCATION AND THE LOCAL ECONOMY, intermediaries in a future ecosystem

: Kraak (A.)

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191pp., paperback, African Minds, Somerset West, 2025

ISBN: 9781067253714

 

This case study examines why South Africa's once thriving furniture industry is in decline and argues that organisations or individuals bridging gaps between education providers, firms and government can foster collaboration, knowledge exchange and innovation and help revitalise the sector.

Dr Andre Kraak is a South African educator, skills development researcher and Visiting Scholar at the University of Johannesburg’s DSI/NRF Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation, 4IR and Sustainable Development. He is currently serving as the Research Chair in the Political Economy of Skills at the Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of the Witwatersrand.