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SFI Strategy 2009 - 2013

SFI Strategy 2009 - 2013. SFI Strategy 2009-2013. 1. Human Capital. 2. Quality Output. 4. Knowledge Transfer. 3. Global Reputation. 1. Build a critical mass of internationally competitive research teams in Ireland in the sciences and engineering underpinning BIO , ICT , and ENERGY.

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SFI Strategy 2009 - 2013

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  1. SFI Confidential SFI Strategy 2009 - 2013

  2. SFI Confidential SFI Strategy 2009-2013 1. Human Capital 2. Quality Output 4. Knowledge Transfer 3. Global Reputation

  3. SFI Confidential 1. Build a critical mass of internationally competitive research teams in Ireland in the sciences and engineering underpinning BIO, ICT, and ENERGY Human Capital …..such that 1. the Irish workforce is upskilled to the needs of a high-tech Economy 2. the absorptive capacity of the country is adjusted to the need to identify and incorporate externally developed technologies and 3. that Ireland is well placed to attract and grow high value enterprises

  4. SFI Confidential 1. . Human CapitalBuild a critical mass of internationally competitive research teams in Ireland in the sciences and engineering underpinning BIO, ICT, and ENERGY Why? • Human capital build up for a knowledge economy What? • 440 world class teams providing • 2000 PhD graduates: ~350/year  >500/year SSTI YEAR# PI TEAMS 2005: 200 2006: 236 2007: 284 2008: 336 2009-13: 440 (+104)

  5. SFI Confidential 1. Table A1: Roll Out of PhD places and graduate schedule

  6. SFI Confidential 1. Human CapitalBuild a critical mass of internationally competitive research teams in Ireland in the sciences and engineering underpinning BIO, ICT, and ENERGY Why? • Human capital build up for a knowledge economy What? • 440 world class teams providing • 2000 PhD graduates: ~350/year  >500/year • 1000 Post Doc places How? • SFI’s broad portfolio of programmes (recruit, retain, grow) • Financial SSTI resourcing (€8.2b; €1.4b) SSTI YEAR# PI TEAMS 2005: 200 2006: 236 2007: 284 2008: 336 2009-13: 440 (+104)

  7. SFI Confidential 2. Ensure that SFI-funded research teams continue to produce the highest quality output Human Capital Quality Output ……as this is the best external endorsement of the scientific value obtained from research investment

  8. SFI Confidential 2. QualityEnsure that SFI-funded research teams continue to produce the highest quality output Why? • Quality is ultimate arbiter of training • High tech enterprise seeks only quality academic output • Only top quality academic output provides sustainable knowledge for innovation What? • Quantity: >1200 publications/million population *current level of 800

  9. SFI Confidential 2. Publication Quantity

  10. SFI Confidential 2. QualityDrive the highest quality output from the SFI funded research teams Why? • Quality is ultimate arbiter of training • High tech enterprise seeks only quality academic output What? • Quantity: >1200 publications/million population • Quality: top 10 placement in citation performers** ** from current position of 17th (source Thompson 1981-2007)

  11. SFI Confidential 2. Publication Quality Citation Impact (5year overlapping periods 1981-2007) Source:Thompson ISI

  12. SFI Confidential 2. Publication Quality Source:Thompson ISI 1981 - 2007

  13. SFI Confidential 2. QualityDrive the highest quality output from the SFI funded research teams Why? • Quality is ultimate arbiter of training • High tech enterprise seeks only quality academic output What? • Quantity: >1200 publications/million population* • Quality: top 10 placement in citation performers How? • Continued peer review & tighter monitoring • International funding • Internationalisation

  14. SFI Confidential 3. Increase Ireland’s global reputation as a location of excellent scientific research and as a source of human and knowledge capital Human Capital Quality Output Global Reputation …...such that businesses creating next generation products and services are attracted to and retained in Ireland

  15. SFI Confidential 3. Global ReputationIncrease Ireland’s global reputation as a location of excellent scientific research and as a source of human and knowledge capital Why? • Specific measures are required to drive international recognition of Ireland as a magnet of attraction for academic researchers & high tech companies What? • Recruit prize-potential overseas PIs • Continue overseas PI recruitment – internationalisation • Target hosting of premium international conferences e.g. Keystone • Nimbleness for emerging challenges and opportunities by constant scanning of the environment for signals that require changes of emphasis in the SFI programmes • Assist IDA, directly and indirectly, in retaining in and attracting to Ireland high-tech foreign direct investment How? • Employ recruitment toolset & exploit key relationships • Expand conference/programmes activities • Build networks

  16. SFI Confidential 4. Knowledge TransferProvide quality inputs to the technology transfer/translational industries in Ireland and grow partnerships that enable the expansion of the national RDI footprint, to ensure that research is optimally exploited for the benefit of Irish society Human Capital Quality Output Knowledge Transfer Global Reputation

  17. SFI Confidential 4. TransferProvide quality inputs to the technology transfer/translational industries in Ireland and grow partnerships that enable the expansion of the national RDI footprint, to ensure that research is optimally exploited for the benefit of Irish society Why? • Ultimately the use of research to drive expansion in high tech/high value enterprise is the driver of all of our activties What? • Drive early IP protection; 1000 x IDs and 500 x patents • License technology (40) & spin out companies (30) • Increase MNC (50) & SME (40) participation in research How? • Communicate & monitor IP protection output of SFI groups • Drive CSET/SRC expansion • Establish periodic briefings on SFI output

  18. SFI Confidential SFI Strategy 2009-2013 1. Human Capital 2. Quality Output 4. Knowledge Transfer 3. Global Reputation

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