Rasigan Maharajh

@tut.ac.za

Full Professor of Public Affairs. Faculty of Humanities
Tshwane University of Technology

Rasigan Maharajh


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Rasigan Maharajh is a South African academic, activist-scholar, and research leader with work experience spanning over four decades. His research focuses on evolutionary political economy of science, technology, and innovation. He has held significant leadership roles in national and international institutions and has an extensive record of scholarly publications, community engagements, and global collaborations. Rasigan has a Ph.D. in the Political Economy of Research Policy from Lund University and is concurrently: Full Professor of Public Affairs at Tshwane University of Technology; Elected Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa; Associate Research Fellow of the Tellus Institute; Ministerial Representative to the Council of Rhodes University; and Trustee of the Canon Collins Trust.

EDUCATION

1987: Reservoir Hills Secondary School: Matriculation.
1993: Development Contact Network: Logical Framework Matrix Methodology
1997 – 1998: Global Business Network: Basic and Advanced Scenario Development and Planning Modules
1998: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research: Advanced Leadership Programme Certificate of Outstanding Merit.
1999: Think Tools AG: Basic, Intermediate and Advance Methodology and Application Modules
2004: Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity: Complexity Fundamentals and Certification Course
1992: University of Natal: Bachelor of Arts (Economic History and Sociology)
1993: Harvard University Kennedy School: Education Policy Analysis and Planning Certificate
1994: University of Natal: Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Economic History
1999: Harvard University Business School: Senior Executive Programme for Southern Africa
2011: Lund University Forskningspolitiska Institutet, School of Economics and Management: Doctor of Philosophy

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Multidisciplinary, Social Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy of Science
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Scopus Publications

1357

Scholar Citations

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Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Understanding systems of innovation in Africa
    M Scerri, A Mutua, B Okolo, E Makheta, G Karuri-Sebina, M Kaggwa, ...
    2025
  • Africa’s Strategic Partnerships with BRICS and Other Emerging Countries
    R Maharajh
    New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy 98 (1) , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Africa’s Strategic Partnerships with BRICS and other Emerging Countries Review by Rasigan Maharajh
    S Zondi, H Adogo, R Maharajh
    New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy 2025 (98 … , 2025
    2025
  • Ecocide or Socialism: Ecological Challenges and Neoliberal Capitalist Constrains on Radical Transformation 1
    R Maharajh, S Tivana
    Mzala Nxumalo, Leftist Thought and Contemporary South Africa, 301-321 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Creatively Destroying Vaccine Apartheid: Emerging STI Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Combined, Uneven, yet Common, Global Context
    R Maharajh
    Reimagining Innovation Systems in the COVID and Post-COVID World, 121-132 , 2023
    2023
  • THE FATE OF MANKIND IS AGAIN CLOSELY INTERTWINED WITH THE FATE OF RUSSIA
    D Hamid, G Arvind, M Kishore, M Rasigan, X Lanxin, J Dayan, C Brahma, ...
    Russia in Global Affairs 21 (1 (81)), 50-65 , 2023
    2023
  • Innovation and Technological Change in South Africa
    E Kraemer-Mbula, R Maharajh
    The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy, 467-488 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 1
  • Dear President Ramaphosa
    B Turok
    New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy 2019 (74), 14-15 , 2019
    2019
  • Economic policy substance and process: letter to Finance Minister
    MT Mboweni, MC Ramaphosa, MR Davies, ME Patel
    2019
  • Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Need for ‘Creative Destruction’Beyond Technological Change
    R Maharajh
    Perspectives Africa 3, 30-34 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 9
  • The global crisis of inequality and its South African manifestations
    D Pillay
    New South African Review 6: The Crisis of Inequality , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 7
  • New South African Review 6: The Crisis of Inequality
    JA van Wyk, S Vally, S Oloruntoba, D Neves, J Mudronova, S Mnwana, ...
    Wits University Press , 2018
    2018
  • Education, the state and class inequality: The case for free higher education in South Africa
    E Motala, S Vally, R Maharajh
    New South African Review 6, 167-182 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 28
  • The policy environment and policy options for the South African system of innovation
    M Scerri, R Maharajh
    The Emergence of Systems of Innovation in South (ern) Africa: Long Histories … , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 3
  • Quality, free university education is necessary–and possible
    S Vally, E Motala, L Naidoo, M Hlatshwayo, R Maharajh
    Mail and Guardian 28 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 5
  • SOUTH CHINA SEA: THE ISLANDS OF DISCORD.
    GM Lokshin
    Aziya i Afrika segodnya , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 3
  • Fictions, factors and futures: reflections on Africa's' impressive growth'
    A Segobye, R Maharajh, A Sall, G Karuri-Sebina
    2015
  • Flight of the flamingos: a study on the mobility of R&D workers
    TE Pogue, G Cele, M Du Toit, M Kahn, V Reddy, W Blankley, R Maharajh
    HSRC Publishers , 2015
    2015
  • Health innovation systems, equity and development
    JE Cassiolato, MCC Soares
    E-papersServiços Editoriais , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 34
  • Being Well in the Early 21st Century: Contemporary Dynamics in the Political Economy of Health
    R Maharajh
    Chapter , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 2

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • New activities of universities in transfer and extension: multiple requirements and manifold solutions
    B Göransson, R Maharajh, U Schmoch
    Science and public policy 36 (2), 157-164 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 219
  • South Africa: Reforming higher education and transforming the national system of innovation
    R Maharajh, E Motala, M Scerri
    Universities in transition: The changing role and challenges for academic … , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 204
  • Global innovation in emerging economies
    P Reddy
    Routledge , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 125
  • Inequality and Development Challenges: BRICS National Systems of Innovation
    MCC Soares, M Scerri, R Maharajh
    India: Routledge , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 102
  • Overcoming underdevelopment in South Africa's second economy
    M Aliber, M Kirsten, R Maharajh, J Nhlapo-Hlope, O Nkoane
    Development Southern Africa 23 (01), 45-61 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 97
  • Introduction: New challenges for universities beyond education and research
    B Göransson, R Maharajh, U Schmoch
    Science and Public Policy 36 (2), 83-84 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 84
  • Innovation Systems for ICT: The case of South Africa
    R Maharajh, A Baskaran, M Muchie
    Bridging the Digital Divide: Innovation Systems for ICT in Brazil, China … , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 78
  • Flight of the Flamingos: A Study on the Mobility of R&D Workers
    M Kahn, W Blankley, R Maharajh, TE Pogue, V Reddy, G Cele, M du Toit
    Cape Town: HSRC Publishers, 128 , 2004
    2004
    Citations: 78
  • Health innovation systems, equity and development
    JE Cassiolato, MCC Soares
    E-papersServiços Editoriais , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 34
  • Innovation Strategies in Developing Countries
    R Maharajh, E Kraemer-Mbula
    Innovation and the Development Agenda, 133-151 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 32
  • The anti-capitalist dictionary: Movements, histories and motivations
    DE Lowes
    Zed Books , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 32
  • Innovating beyond Racial Capitalism: A Contribution towards the Analysis of the Political Economy of Post-Apartheid South Africa.
    R Maharajh
    Lund University , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 31
  • Education, the state and class inequality: The case for free higher education in South Africa
    E Motala, S Vally, R Maharajh
    New South African Review 6, 167-182 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 28
  • Technological Change for Local Economic Growth and Development
    R Maharajh, T Pogue
    Sustainable Manufacturing?: The Case of South Africa and Ekurhuleni, 46-60 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 17
  • The Co-evolution of Innovation and Inequality
    M Scerri, MCC Soares, R Maharajh
    Inequality and Development Challenges, 1-18 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 14
  • The informal sector and the challenges of development in South Africa.
    LL Ndabeni, R Maharajh
    2013
    Citations: 13
  • Fictions, Factors and Futures: Reflections on Africa's ‘impressive growth’
    G Karuri-Sebina, A Sall, R Maharajh, A Segobye
    Development 55 (4), 491-496 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 11
  • Africa toward 2030: challenges for development policy
    E Lundsgaarde
    Springer , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 10
  • Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Need for ‘Creative Destruction’Beyond Technological Change
    R Maharajh
    Perspectives Africa 3, 30-34 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 9
  • Sustentabilidade socioambiental em um contexto de crise
    JE Cassiolato, MG Podcameni, MCC Soares
    CEP 20, 006 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 8