Orientation: The development agency could be equipped with a model that will assist them in supporting mobile application development entrepreneurs towards enhanced competitiveness that could assist in alleviating poverty and reducing economic inequality.Research purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the evolution of a model to support mobile application development entrepreneurs towards enhanced competitiveness.Motivation for the study: This study was motivated by the views on black economic empowerment where little has been done to impact the lives of black people on a larger scale. Broader participation of black people in the formal economy is required to achieve sustainable development and prosperity. Studies suggest that innovation through technology transfer is regarded as a contributor to economic growth.Research design, approach and method: This study adopted the Critical Realist Methodology Model via an inductive research approach. Focused interviews with academics, small and medium-sized enterprises in the innovation and technology industry and development agencies were conducted.Main findings: There is business potential in mobile applications, but entrepreneurs have difficulty in commercialising these. They could be assisted with a model that would transform their applications into real business opportunities.Practical/managerial implications: The antidote to disruptive innovation is a management response. What is required from management is that it needs to bring about a paradigm shift in the way that the whole notion of a business is remodelled.Contribution/value-add: This study reveals a multi-factorial strategy model in the form of the Disruptive Innovation State Response Model that could support mobile application development entrepreneurs towards enhanced competitiveness.
Die modellering van slimstede stel ’n verskuiwing in fokus voor, vanaf statiese e-regeringsbeleid tot pragmatiese Internet van Dinge (IoT)-oplossings wat voortdurend dinamies op burgers en die omgewing inwerk. Die doel van hierdie studie is om vas te stel hoe Kaapstad as ’n slimstad tot die sosio-ekonomiese ontwikkeling in Afrika kan bydra en die Smart Africa-inisiatief kan bevorder. Aangemoedig deur ’n versoek van Smart Africa, is hierdie sosio-tegniese studie van mening dat inligtings- en kommunikasietegnologie (IKT) en die kennisgedrewe ekonomie Afrika se mededingendheid in die globale ekonomie kan verhoog. Afrika het daarin geslaag om op hoogte te bly van tegnologiese tendense, veral in telekommunikasie. Die implementering van 5G verg egter meer as om bloot aansluiting te lewer, aangesien dit ’n magdom moontlikhede vir slimstede bied. Hierdie studie stel voor dat die grondslag van Smart Africa in ’n geloofwaardige beleid en regulerende omgewing gesetel is wat die werkskepping, volhoubare entrepreneurskap en die uitruil van kennis sal aanvuur. Hierdie studie het triangulering van teorie, die opstel van databronne en datainsamelingsmetodes toegepas wat op die beginsels van die Smart City-manifes gebaseer is. In die empiriese fase is sleutel-IKT-beamptes van die Stad Kaapstad en die Wes-Kaapse Regering (WKR) genooi om deel te neem aan die indiepte-onderhoude wat in Junie 2019 gevoer is. Dié studie ondersteun die sienswyse dat Kaapstad as ’n slimstad deur middel van die Smart Africa-beginsels vir sosio-ekonomiese ontwikkeling tot die sosio-ekonomiese ontwikkeling van Afrika kan bydra. Hierdie aanbevelings dien as riglyne vir IKT-strategieë, beleid en stadsbeamptes in hulle transformasie tot slimstede, veral in Afrika.
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