The Committee wanted clarity on the Department's strategy to increase research and development investment and whether their aim of spending 1.5 per cent of GDP on research and development by 2014 could still be achieved. The Department explained that GDP had grown faster than the national investment in R&D. The amount currently invested in R&D would have to double to realise the 2014 goal. The Department was currently working on a draft strategy to increase R&D investment in South Africa. Once finalised, the Committee wants to be briefed on the report.