The role of technology transfer in the industrial expansion of South Africa's cryogenic gas industry

M.Tech. (Operations Management)This dissertation studies South Africa‟s industrial foundation and its formation. It aims to establish whether this base can be expanded through technology transfer mechanisms. It took a brief view of the cryogenic gases sector as a baseline to the study and used it as a focus in determining its role within the industrial phenomena in question. This was done with the intention of establishing the extent to which technology transfer in this sector can act as a catalyst to improve South Africa‟s industrial state. The study specifically looked at the cryogenic sector as an important contributor to the manufacturing industry within the overall industrial phenomena ..