South Africa’s situation of financialization, low growth, unemployment, and inequality is linked here to the ‘installation phase’ of a new technology as described by Carlotta Perez. South Africa’s informational economy is examined, and the role of the financial sector is summarized. The article then considers the strengths and weaknesses of the manufacturing and service sectors, and the embeddedness in them of digital technologies. The article concludes by supporting manufacturing as the best route to a new productive economic core while other sites of digital industry take deeper root. The need to shape finance to more national ends is also affirmed.

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南非处于新技术经济范式的安装阶段

南非的金融化、低增长、失业和不平等状况与卡洛塔佩雷斯所描述的新技术的“安装阶段”有关。审查了南非的信息经济，并总结了金融部门的作用。然后，文章考虑了制造业和服务业的优势和劣势，以及数字技术在其中的嵌入性。文章的结论是支持将制造业作为通往新的生产性经济核心的最佳途径，而其他数字产业站点则更深入地扎根。也肯定了将金融塑造成更多国家目标的必要性。