Geographical Indication (GI) options for Ethiopian Coffee and Ghanaian Cocoa

Innovation & Intellectual Property
Table 13.1: Research indicators for UCT (ZAR = South African Rand, m = million)
Research contracts signed
1,056 (2010)
882 (2009)
Foreign research funding
ZAR 382.5 m (2010)
ZAR 334.7 m (2009)
Invention disclosures
31 (2010)
25 (2009)
Licence agreements
8 (2010)
6 (2009)
Licence income
ZAR 3.5 m (2010)
ZAR 136,494 (2009)
Research contract value
ZAR 550 m (2010)
ZAR 543.9 m (2009)
Local (South African)
research funding
ZAR 167.7 m (2010)
ZAR 209.2 m (2009)
Patent applications filed
57 (2010)
46 (2009)
Materials transfer
agreements (outbound)
29 (2010)
21 (2009)
Profit from UCT-incubated
companies
ZAR 400,000 (2010)
ZAR 693,630 (2009)
Total research income
ZAR 760.5 m (2010)
ZAR 768 m (2009)
Publications*
1,188.22 (2010)
1,086.15 (2009)
Patents granted
36 (2010)
47 (2009)
Spin-out companies
0 (2010)
1 (2009)
Total income from IP
ZAR 3.9 m (2010)
ZAR 830,699 (2009)
Source: UCT (2011), p. 3.
* These publication counts have decimal points as a result of DHET’s method of calculation, which
translates publications into units and half units and shares them between institutions where a publication
is co-authored.
Researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering, the Department of
Molecular and Cell Biology and the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular
Medicine (IIDMM) are among UCT’s top inventors, as evidenced by their very
high publishing outputs (UCT, 2010, pp. 7–8). Recent research in these departments
has been focused on minerals, the creation of human and animal vaccine
candidates, preventive HIV vaccines, anti-malarial drug discovery and the development
of a device that enables in situ evaluation of ferro-metallic catalysts (UCT,
2010, pp. 17–27, 65).
Administration perspectives
UCT’s TTO function is performed by its RCIPS office, which in the last few years
has focused its efforts on implementing the IPR-PFRD Act and Regulations. RCIPS
296