2020 CBE Annual Report

College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2020 42 Imraan Valodia and Arkebe Oqubay as co-editors of the Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy. This is a landmark volume with fortyeight chapters contributed by leading national and international authors. Another volume, Structural Transformation in South Africa: The Challenges of Inclusive Industrial Development in a Middle-Income Country, was co-edited by Antonio Andreoni, Pamela Mondliwa, Fiona Tregenna and Simon Roberts. Both books will come out this year. Several of our postdocs published journal articles, for example by Dr Hlalefang Khobai in the International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy and by Dr Clement Mulamba (co-authored with Prof Tregenna) in the Journal of Regional Science, as well as articles by our PhD candidate Rex Asiama in African Journal of Business and Economic Research and in International Journal of Social Economics. We organised several research workshops or discussions, for example, one among researchers working on Global Value Chains. Students continued to participate in activities such as our biweekly seminar series, public lectures, colloquia, workshops, and conferences that were hosted or co-hosted by SARChI-ID. During 2020, Prof Tregenna was appointed to the Editorial Boards of international journals Competition and Change and Economia Politica. Various members of our team, including postdocs, reviewed for several journals. gloBal fooTPrinT We commenced an international partnership on industrial policy in Africa (AIP21), with seed funding from the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA). New institutional partnerships were forged with PRISM (UCT), the University of the West of England (United Kingdom) and Roskilde University (Denmark) and we continue to focus on strengthening partnerships with several other institutions. Prof Tregenna spoke (including keynote addresses) at various international webinar events, for example, hosted by the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (Austria), Senior Research Associate Dr Elvis Avenyo. Top: Visiting Associate Professor in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Prof Antonio Andreoni. Beow: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Milene Tessarin.

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