3. Strategic Goals The Department's five strategic goals over the medium term are to: . Develop the innovation capacity of the NSI to contribute to socio- economic development; . Enhance South Africa's capacity for generating knowledge to produce world class research outputs and develop advanced findings into innovation products and processes; . Develop appropriate science, technology and innovation (STI) human capital to meet the needs of society; . Build a world-class STI infrastructure to extend the frontiers of knowledge, train the next generation of researchers and enable technology development and transfer as well as knowledge interchange; and . Position South Africa as a strategic international research development and innovation (RDI) partner and destination through the exchange of knowledge, capacity and resources between South Africa, the region and other international partners, thereby strengthening the NSI.