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Contact Information.......................................................................................................3THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OFFICE.........................................................41. Mission and Objectives........................................................................................52. Management.........................................................................................................53. Responsibilities....................................................................................................6ACTIVITIES..................................................................................................................71. Supporting international cooperation programmes and building partnershipsin the development of high technologies, science-intensive products andservices................................................................................................................72. Supporting the alignment of South African science and technology policiesand programmes through active participation in international science.............103. Supporting through international cooperation programmes South Africa
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skills and human resource development imperatives........................................164. Attracting foreign investment to support the national and regional scienceand technology and innovation systems............................................................215. Promoting a strong South African input into the international science andtechnology for sustainable development discourse as well as NEPAD andinternational science and technology policy formulation..................................28CONCLUSION............................................................................................................30