Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Not to be confused with Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India; or the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the forerunner to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia.

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
AbbreviationCSIR
Formation1945[1]
TypeResearch and development organisation
Location
Region served
South Africa
President and CEO
Thulani Dlamini[2]
Websitewww.csir.co.za Edit this at Wikidata

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is a South African scientific research and development (R&D) organisation. It was established by an act of parliament in 1945 and is situated on its campus in Pretoria.[3] It is Africa's largest research and development organisation and accounts for about 10% of the entire African R&D budget.[citation needed] It has a staff of approximately 3,000 technical and scientific researchers.

  1. ^ Profile of the CSIR Archived 24 July 2012 at archive.today 6 October 2011.
  2. ^ [1]. 9 February 2017.
  3. ^ Profile of the CSIR Archived 24 July 2012 at archive.today. Retrieved 6 October 2011.