“Leslie Madsen-Brooks is skeptical about the kind of disruption start-ups and tech folks promise. She highlights ways university faculty and staff are already driving thoughtful technological innovation through engaging in open source, open learning projects …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 15 May]
“Around 300 senior representatives of industry, academia and government gathered at a two day-conference organised jointly by the EPO, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Technische Universität München (TUM) to look at how to create markets out of research results …” (more)
[European Patent Office, 7 May]
“Britain is failing to secure the economic benefits of its world-class scientific research because of the lack of a ‘coherent’ government strategy to commercialise new discoveries, a parliamentary report warned today …” (more)
[Huffington Post, 13 March]
“Universities are ‘dying a slow and painful’ death in the face of utilitarian policies of the state and aggressive commercialisation of higher education, eminent educationists said last week at a seminar organised by the Delhi University Teachers’ Association …” (more)
[University World News, 9 March]
“Recommendations were put forward for reforming Trinity’s commercial strategy at a meeting of the University Board last December, and included recommendations for the potential development of the sports grounds in Santry and expanded commercial use of the Book of Kells …” (more)
[University Times, 6 March]
“… The truth is that treating a college or university primarily as a ‘profitable’ business puts the focus on cutting corners whenever possible and increasing efficiency wherever possible. Ultimately, this approach treats higher education as a globally traded commodity with no safety net …” (more)
[Paul Blake, University World News, 6 January]
“2013 is close at hand and it’s hardly a ‘man bites dog’ story that the 2006 flagship enterprise policy target to be recognised as a ‘world class knowledge economy’ by next year has been already buried …” (more)
[Michael Hennigan, Finfacts, 20 December]
“The Government is causing serious and possibly irreparable damage to Ireland’s national capacity to conduct scientific research. Its persistent demand that any State investment in science must deliver a return on investment has placed it on a path that could erode the undoubted reputational and qualitative gains in science that have been made here over more than a decade …” (more)
[Dick Ahlstrom, Irish Times, 10 December]
“The government’s determination to squeeze a commercial return from the State’s investment in scientific research may have gone too far. Researchers are warning that the shift in emphasis could threaten the future of Irish science …” (more)
[Dick Ahlstrom, Irish Times, 16 July]
“Sir, – I read with some concern Dr Peter Gallagher and Dr Emma Teeling’s letter (July 3rd). Having spent 30 years as an engineer and executive in the US, the last 20 of which in Silicon Valley, I am afraid the authors have fallen into the trap of correlating basic research in the sciences with commercial spin-outs …” (more)
[Liam Madden, Irish Times, 6 July]
“… Third level researchers are constantly encouraged to commercialise their discoveries and both money and support are available to help them along. Enterprise Ireland supports high potential start-ups coming out of third level labs and also products arising from within companies …” (more)
[Dick Ahlstrom, Irish Times, 11 June]
“On Tuesday next week, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) is throwing open its doors to show off its outstanding industry-focused research in areas such as environment and health, information and media technologies, novel materials, and culture and enterprise …” (more)
[Irish Times, 11 June]
“The government has announced a new protocol for intellectual property to make it easier to commercialise the results of publicly funded research and development (R&D) …” (more)
[Laura Slattery, Irish Times, 9 June]
“The Minister for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock TD, together with the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD, today announced new structures to make it easier to commercialise and ultimately create jobs from ideas developed through publicly-funded research, which currently receives total funding of over €800 million per year …” (more)
[The Labour Party, 8 June]
“In the previous post, Stifling Discovery: Science Foundation Ireland’s New Mission and the Jobs Myth, we examined the recent policy shift at Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) that has led to the prioritisation of research commercialisation …” (more)
[Network for Irish Educational Standards, 22 May]
“Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) is making hugely significant changes to the system by which scientific research in Ireland is funded. From now on, SFI, which awards around €150 million annually for scientific research, will only fund research where it can be claimed from the outset that it will turn a profit and create jobs …” (more)
[Network for Irish Educational Standards, 22 May]
“Deriving financial benefit from the State’s investment in research activity has become a central element of the Government’s overall science policy. It is fundamental to the recently released prioritisation plan and is now an assumed constant in any Government statement on enterprise …” (more)
[Dick Ahlstrom, Irish Times, 2 April]
“Sean Sherlock TD, Minister for Research and Innovation, has announced that the Government has approved the drafting of a bill to extend the remit of Science Foundation Ireland to include funding of applied research in order to support the development of research findings into commercial opportunities …” (more)
[Cork Politics, 25 January]
“Lord Sainsbury will be part of a new task force launched to investigate ways to turn more university research into viable businesses. Over the next 12 months the new task force, set up by the Council for Industry and Higher Education, will ask the question: ‘How does the UK maximise the value of publicly funded research?’ …” (more)
[David Matthews, Times Higher Education, 10 July]
“The Government will give priority to the commercialisation of research and development (R&D) from Irish universities in its jobs policies, Minister for Enterprise Richard Bruton has promised at a conference dedicated to tax incentives for R&D …” (more)
[Irish Times, 24 May]
