People

The Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI) is a part of the Faculty of Economics and Finance and has the same standing as a full academic department. It supplies an annual report and has a budget allocation from Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). The academic personnel of IERI teach in the Faculty's own Department of Economics and also at other Higher Education Institutions, locally and abroad. Students from the Departments of Economics and Public Sector Finance have been taken on as research interns on a number of commissioned projects. IERI staff members sit on all Faculty committees and are part of the Faculty Board. The Chief Director of IERI is the vice-chair of the Faculty Research and Innovation Committee (FRIC) and has also been elected as the deputy chair of the Faculty Board. Lindile Ndabeni chairs the Ethics Committee of the FRIC and represents the Faculty on the relevant TUT structure. IERI manages the Faculty's Research and Innovation Focus Area on the "Political Economy of Innovation and Local Development". IERI's staff complement consists of a core component of full-time staff and a select group of research associates.

The core component comprises the following:

Over its short history IERI has also developed a complement of Research Associates, ranging from Professors Extraordinaire, through research associates, visiting academics, post-doctoral researchers, doctoral students and interns. The list of associates is provided below:

Professors Extraordinaire¹

Associate Research Fellows

Visiting Scholars

Doctoral Candidates

Interns & Temporary Appointments

1. Professors Extraordinaire are formally granted this status by the Council of TUT and work on the teaching, learning, research and community engagement activities of IERI