Dr Chux Daniels (PhD, Sussex; MBA, MSc, BSc) is a Senior Research Fellow in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School, Professor at the Department of Engineering and Technology Management, University of Pretoria, South Africa, and Director of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) Africa Hub. TIPC is a research programme that involves several countries in Africa including Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, South Africa and others. Before joining SPRU, he worked in the Information Technology, Business, Finance, and Management sectors. 

Besides teaching and postgraduate supervision of Doctoral researchers and MSc students, his on-going research projects include:
- Transformative Innovation Africa Hub (TIAH) and TIPC: This research brings together global actors to examine research and innovation systems and explore the future of innovation policy – its foundation, formulation and governance. Alongside SPRU, the founding research organisations are from Colombia, Norway, South Africa, Sweden and Finland. Chux is the Director of TIAH, based at the Future Africa Campus at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
- DSI/NRF/Newton Fund Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation, the 4th Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development - this research project include the United Kingdom (University of Sussex), Kenya and South Africa.
- ESRC-funded GCRF Inclusive Societies: How to link industrial and social innovation for inclusive development: lessons from
tackling cancer care in Africa. Countries involved: Kenya, Tanzania, India, and the United Kingdom. Project focus: innovations in
healthcare in Africa and beyond.
- Updating the Political Economy analysis of the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) in Sub-Saharan Africa: This research is funded by IDRC, Canada.
- Innovation in African Universities: transdisciplinary research involving teams from Kenya, South Africa and the UK
- Science, Technology and Innovation for addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- and more

Alongside research and teaching, Chux is involved in active STI policy work. He has, in recent years, provided STI policy research and services to organisations that include the United Nations agencies (UNIDO, UNCTAD, UNTB, UNESCO, UNESCAP), The European Commission (JRC),  and the World Bank. His services to the African Union Commission (AUC) include the development of a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework for the continental "Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa" (STISA-2024), research, training and capacity building.

His country experience includes the United Kingdom, where he is based; various African countries (including Botswana, Ghana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia), Asia-Pacific (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan), and the US Virgin Island. Chux was part of UNCTAD's team that reviewed Zambia's STI Policy and Ecosystem in 2019. In 2017 and 2018, he worked with the South African government to develop the country's White Paper on Science, Technology and Innovation. In 2020/2021, he worked with UNCTAD to develop the STI Policy Framework for Uganda.

Chux is a visiting fellow at various research, academic and policy institutions. His career spans a wide range of sectors including STI, ICT, management, finance, international business and consultancy, energy and construction, and international development.

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