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QUT’s key ambition in research and innovation is to undertake high impact research in selected areas, reinforcing our real-world emphasis and securing significant commercial and practical outcomes. These outcomes will include major benefits to the public good.
The Research and Innovation Plan details QUT’s aspiration to deliver research-led benefits to Queensland, to Australia and to society at large through key objectives in impact and excellence; the Plan is underpinned by a continual process of capacity building.
Over the period to 2011, national and state financial support for R&D as the bedrock of growth in the knowledge economy, as well as social and environmental sustainability will rise substantially. QUT’s aim is to increase its share of these resources that is commensurate with its size. However, competition within the higher education sector, and amongst R&D providers more generally, for access to these and other private sector investment resources will intensify. Worldwide, there is a trend towards strategic concentration of R&D effort, and this is particularly the case in Australia. The Research and Innovation Plan foreshadows actions to ensure QUT enhances its role as a leading Australian university of technology and its contribution to the advancement of society over the next decade.
Over the period to 2011, QUT will very significantly raise its research productivity and impact. QUT will:
- Increase external research income
- Continue to target substantial increased investment towards research capacity building in key thematic areas
- Provide research career development opportunities for our most promising junior and middle level academics, along with programs to attract new talent at an early career stage
- Increase research higher degree enrolments
- Enhance its international research reputation
- Be amongst the top five universities in the country for managing R&D activities with commercial potential as measured by its ability to translate research expenditure into commercial outcomes
- Achieve international leadership in disciplines and domains in which Queensland and Australia have a natural competitive advantage, including Indigenous issues.
University Research and Innovation Committee (URIC)
University Research and Innovation Committee is responsible to University Academic Board in relation to the two broad academic areas - academic policy relating to research (including research ethics), and research higher degree training (including issues of quality). University Research and Innovation Committee also reports to Planning and Resources Committee in relation to development and commercialisation issues within that Committee's financial resources oversight. |
