Dr David LloydDean of Research

‘Can Research Change the World? The importance of research in addressing

global development challenges’

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Can research

change the world?

YES

Local Mission

• Driving Ireland’s Development– Making Education & Knowledge Work– Enabling Ireland as a Global Citizen

• Roadmap– Focus on quality, not just quantity– Empower the 4th Level– Build on research strengths– Collaboration and Partnership

Why Quality?

Research Excellence

Excellent & Innovative undergraduate education

Creative, Flexible Graduates

Quality & Quantity of PhD’s

Specialists with the appropriate skills

New Knowledge

Enterprise, Policy, Culture

Research of Consequen

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What is Research

• Generation of new knowledge

• Transfer of that knowledge

Flavours

Investment

Return

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Bandwidth

Grand Challenges

Non-silo approach

• Excellent curiosity driven research is not walled in, it doesn’t respect or acknowledge geographic, economic or political boundaries, its hardly ever ‘directed’ – it is organic and self propelled

Non-silo approach

• Two major local challenges:– Identify such research & layer

application upon it so that its consequence can be realised

– Derive mechanisms for translation of output to action via policy

Addressing Challenges

Addressing Challenges

Addressing Challenges

Addressing Challenges

Addressing Challenges

Innovation Academy

•Creative Thinkers•Commercial Innovation•Policy Innovation•Social Innovation

Impact & Influence

Our next steps

• Advance ‘Sustainable Society’• Identify the translational paths from

non-traditional origins• Think on how best to

programmatically link the interests of researchers (which are individual) to development-linked return on investment (which may be intangible)