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Dr Jim Fitzpatrick Managing Director Fitzpatrick Associates, Economic Consultants

INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY FORUM Delivery of the NDP 2007-13 Challenges and Opportunities for the IoTs March 29-30, 2007. Dr Jim Fitzpatrick Managing Director Fitzpatrick Associates, Economic Consultants 122 Ranelagh Village, Dublin 6. Tel: +353-1-4966008 Fax: +353-1-4966028

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Dr Jim Fitzpatrick Managing Director Fitzpatrick Associates, Economic Consultants

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  1. INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGYFORUMDelivery of the NDP 2007-13Challenges and Opportunities for the IoTsMarch 29-30, 2007 Dr Jim Fitzpatrick Managing Director Fitzpatrick Associates, Economic Consultants 122 Ranelagh Village, Dublin 6 Tel: +353-1-4966008 Fax: +353-1-4966028 E-mail: jfitzpatrick@fitzpatrick-associates.com www.fitzpatrick-associates.com 1

  2. CONTENTS • HEIs and Economic Success • New NDP 2007-13 • Challenges for HEIs – national • Challenges for HEIs – regional • Opportunities and Challenges – IoTs • Some Possible Steps? 2

  3. INGREDIENTS OF MODERN ECONOMIC SUCCESS • Human resources • Innovation/RTDI • Infrastructure/utilities • Regulatory context • Environment, quality of life • Energy supplies Broadly true at both national and regional level 3

  4. MAIN SOCIO-ECONOMIC ROLES OF HEIs National… • education • research/innovation • advisory/consultancy services • cultural/artistic life Regional/local also… • major employers of skilled people • expenditure of staff/students • “buzz” factor 4

  5. NEW NDP 2007-13 • “a superb country in which to live, learn, work and play…” • €184 bn investment across the main socio-economic sectors • generally reflects other sectoral strategies (Transport 21, SSTI, ESG) • large-scale investment directly related to third level education • STI € 6.1 bn • HE €13.0 bn • many other priorities also relevant, e.g. training, environment, social inclusion • reinforces National Spatial Strategy, (inc. Gateways/hubs) 5

  6. CHALLENGES FOR HEIs/IoTs – NATIONAL LEVEL • quantity of activity • fourth-level education • life-long learning • RTDI, inc. commercialisation • economic and social role • quality/world class Already reasonably well identified/articulated by OECD, SSTI, etc. 6

  7. IRISH HEIs IN SELECTED INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS 7

  8. CHALLENGES FOR HEIs/IoTs – REGIONAL LEVEL • NDP puts NSS back centre state as Ireland’s regional policy • “regional role” much stated but less well specified • HEIs inc. IoTs emphasised in NDP Regional Development Section (esp in “new” Gateways) • SSTI also has sections on “Spatial Dimension” (p. 86) and on “Regional Innovation and the IoTs” (p. 45) 8

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  10. THE REGIONAL CHALLENGE? FULL TIME THIRD LEVEL RESEARCHERS BY LOCATION 94% of full-time researchers in the four university cities 10

  11. OPPORTUNITIES FOR IoTs 2007-13 • broad recognition of importance of your role • policy environment supportive • large-scale funding potentially available • institutional changes in train • key regional role flagged under NSS 11

  12. CHALLENGES FOR IoTs 2007-13 • scale, critical mass (esp. in smaller locations where much expected) • variety of situations (not one policy fits all) • responding to regional role (clustering) • going beyond “S&T” to a broadly based local institution • being proactive rather than reactive • prioritisation, differentiation, “USPs” 12

  13. IoT SCALE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES? Full-time undergraduate entrants to third-level courses (2002/03) • total 133,887 of which IoTs 53,586 (40%) • biggest individual HEIs: UCD 16,313, UCC 12,993, DIT 10,307 • all IoT/Technological Colleges 3.3 times bigger than largest university (UCD) • IoTs in eight non-Dublin Gateways total 32,801 full-time enrolment, 25% of all HEIs and twice as big UCD! 13

  14. POSSIBLE IoT RESPONSE • partnering with universities, Irish and overseas? • new/emerging areas (overseas students, ethnic minorities/languages, life-long learning)? • a different relationship with HEA? • shared strategies with/for local areas? • relationship with other Irish RTDI and other institutions? • more central/common functions, “common face” (a virtual institution)? “THINKING MORE GLOBALLY – ACTING MORE LOCALLY” 14

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