Presentación Michael Sargent

Michael Sargent
Santiago, January 22nd, 2010

Why Use-Inspired Research? R&D Society Industry Resources Improved Society Improved Industry New Industry New Opportunities New Industry Use Inspired Research Knowledge Inspired Research

The Changing Face of Research
Research
Researcher
Environment
Data
Fundamentals
The Driver of Change: The capabilities of modern research infrastructure to produce, manage and analyse data Discipline Multi-Discipline Trans-Discipline Inter-Discipline Individual Large Teams Competitive Collaborative Constrained Limitless Synthesis Analysis

World class innovation = world class innovators . world class research infrastructure . world class collaborative environments World class innovation = world class innovators

Distribution of R&D Expenditure

Collaborations Desire to Use Desire to Know CONICYT now CORFO now Where Chile needs to increase effort

Key Australian policy outcomes
Centres for cooperative research between universities and industry
Since 1991 168 centres funded, with 48 currently active involving 1230 companies
BERD now 1.27% taking Australia to top 10 of GERD as a % of GDP
Improved proportion of post-graduate qualifications
Postgraduate qualified people are now about 5% of workforce
nearly 30% of tertiary students -over 250 000- are post-graduate students
Support for entrepreneurship
Seed funds, incubators, start-up grants,technology transfer organisations, entrepreneurs-in-residence
Community outreach programs

Research Infrastructure Categories $1M $10M $100M $1 000M Institution Project Integrated Systemic Landmark Block Grants Competitive Grants Collaborative Project Investment Increasing international significance Increasing level of funding and commitment Increased need for collaborative engagement, nationally and internationally Increased competition for resources and funds

Collaborative Infrastructure Principles
Investments should enhance R&D contributions to national priority goals
Focus on areas where the country is, or potentially is, world-class and can provide international leadership
Development on a collaborative, national basis to serve the research and innovation system broadly
Access is a critical issue. There should be as few barriers as possible to accessing major infrastructures
Consideration of whole-of-life costs and operational funding where appropriate

Some Important Gaps
ICT Infrastructure
no group had an overview of the needs and strategies for systemic intervention
Bioinformatics
organic development in silos of effort and information
Data accessibility
traditional empires of control

Collaborative Research Infrastructure Impacts
provides access by universities and industry to leading edge research infrastructure
improves the quality of research
facilitates interaction and innovative interaction across the research and innovation system
enables new ways of conducting research
provides opportunities for new types of research
attracts and retains high quality researchers

Distribution of R&D Expenditure Category Aus ($A) Aus (%) Chile Chile (%) AdvHumCap 1.1 14 88 19 Basic Res 2.5 31 207 45 Mission Res 2.9 36 83 18 Bus Innov 1.6 20 83 18 Total 8.1 461

Some Observations
Collaboration at researcher, institutional and government levels is essential
Governance and access regimes are key determinants of success
Strategic intent underpins rational prioritisation of investments
Strategic review provides a living framework for ongoing investment
Cultural change in the research sector is a key issue
(Full time) Operations resources are the key resource for sustainable investments and open access - and yet are the scarcest and most under-respected resource in the system -until you have to find them
The link between research descriptions and infrastructure descriptions is rarely a one-to-one match, so trans-disciplinary discussions on strategies are important
Systemic needs (eg modelling platforms, data management and fusion) are rarely effectively articulated as a part of the investment proposals
The larger the investment the more socio-economic groups you are competing with

National Research Priorities
Australia’s National Research Priorities are:
An environmentally sustainable Australia
Promoting and maintaining good health
Frontier technologies and transforming Australian industries
Safeguarding Australia
National Research Priorities are designed to focus the Australian Government’s research effort into those areas that can deliver significant economic, social and environmental benefits to Australia .

A Reality Check
GDP of US$800M (PPP) (about 5% of USA’s)
GDP/capita on par with the 4 dominant Western economies
Australia ranks globally 19th in size of economy
only about 5% of the size of the economies we like to compare ourselves with
Australia ranks barely in the top 20 of nations in innovative activity
In the OECD, Australia is:
in the second highest quartile in researchers per 1000 employment
in the middle quartile for venture capital investment as % GDP
in the bottom quartile of trade intensity
97% of R&D output occurs outside Australia
Smarter, focussed, cohesive Australia has a strong robust economy, an innovative socio-economic structure, and a market-oriented economy. It has : However:

Barriers
Collaborative action required
funding regime predominantly competitive or short-term project collaboration
Access to facilities
hidden costs borne by ‘owner’ and not met by research funding programs
Sustainability and strategic evolution of activity
no ongoing process to review currency and relevance

Defining Research Infrastructure Capabilities
Survey existing infrastructure
Use of focus groups and consultation to ‘translate’ from the research theme to the underpinning research infrastructure requirements
Use expert groups to define broad scope of capability required
Use steering committee to identify overlaps and gaps, and barriers to access and usage
Research Themes Research Infrastructure Capabilities

Access and Pricing Principles
  nfrastructure should be accessible by all classes of researchers including - meritorious researchers (these include research students and early career researchers); commercial users; and international users.
 The terms of access should be transparent to users and potential users.
 Pricing for  meritorious researchers should not exceed the marginal cost of providing access
 Co-investors will have a preferential price position compared with others

Governance Principles
Governance arrangements for each capability should be relevant to the proposed strategic investment plan, and ensure:
adequate oversight of the investment
oversight of the operations of the facility
management of the access and pricing regimes
coordination between partners
annual review of the strategic position, relevance and value of the facilities
The governing body must provide:
an investment and operating plan for the five year funding period
an access and pricing plan
an annual report of activities
an annual business plan for the following year
Governance arrangements may vary between capabilities, ranging from companies through unincorporated joint ventures

Some Questions
Do we know what we have?
Do we know what we need?
Is what we have being used effectively?
If not, what are the reasons for this?
If we need to make further investments, what investments?
If we need to make further investments, how should we do this?
The answer to all these were: we don't know

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