“There are a lot of surprising innovations coming from South Africa,” says David Kaplan, an economist at the University of Cape Town who specializes in tracking technological change. “But the gap between esoteric knowledge and economic applications remains large.”
开普敦大学关注技术变革的经济学家大卫·卡普兰强调，“南非涌现了许多令人赞叹的创新成果，但是在深奥理论和实际经济应用之间的差距仍然很大。”