LEADERS IN SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

Created in 1945 by Parliament as the central scientific research and development resource for South Africa, the CSIR remains the country’s top technology and innovation agency.

Today the CSIR accounts 15% of total government expenditure on research and development and contributes considerably to national initiatives, strategies and projects, as well as support to the public sector.  A staff complement of about 2 300 include some of the top technical and scientific minds in the country, working from advanced research facilities in most of the nine provinces.

The CSIR is acknowledged nationally and internationally as a leader in established study areas such as biosciences, information technology and natural resources and the environment and stands on the cutting edge of scientific exploration with emerging research areas such as nanotechnology, mobile intelligent autonomous systems, synthetic biology, photonics and human language technologies.