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These pages contain the original text of the Tertiary Education Strategy documents. Only edit content if you notice the text is inconsistent with the final published document. Feel free to develop your own cross references and index structure. Improved knowledge uptake through stronger links with those that apply new knowledge or commercialisation of knowledge products
The increased alignment of tertiary research with national goals will mean that providers will have increased their connectivity with research-users across many areas, especially through the increasing funding they receive from economic, social and environment research output classes, the New Economy Research Fund, the Health Research Council and from industry and other users. By 2007, the nature of research uptake will have changed, from the previous linear ‘from academic idea to implementation or commercialisation’ approach to a much more networked approach, focussed on problem solving. An improved ‘information infrastructure’ will be evident, with end-users, providers and government working together to develop future-focussed research strategies. The TEC, in emphasising the importance of networks, will play a catalytic role here. But so will organisations such Industry New Zealand, Trade New Zealand, FRST, ITOs and other sector groups. This greater connectivity with the end-users of research will have increased the research literacy of users, so ensuring uptake of research results. There will be genuine two-way learning between researchers and users throughout the research process, including the engagement of end-users in research programme design, development, execution, and implementation, and the movement of staff and students between providers and users. This will involve greater end-user financial commitments to research programmes and students and, for economically-focussed programmes, provider consideration of how the pathway to implementation and the management of intellectual property (for example, via product or prototype development, licensing, and spin-offs) captures benefit to New Zealand. There will be increasing numbers of ventures where new knowledge has been fully commercialised through companies spun-off from tertiary providers or through joint ventures with enterprise. « Objective 33 | Index | Objective 35 » |
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