1. Dr David Lloyd Dean of Research ‘Can Research Change the World? The importance of research in addressing global development challenges’

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3. Can research change the world? YES

4. Local Mission Driving Ireland’s Development –Making Education & Knowledge Work –Enabling Ireland as a Global Citizen Roadmap –Focus on quality, not just quantity –Empower the 4 th Level –Build on research strengths –Collaboration and Partnership

5. Why Quality? Research Excellence Excellent & Innovative undergraduate education Creative, Flexible Graduates Quality & Quantity of PhD’s Specialists with the appropriate skills New Knowledge Enterprise, Policy, Culture

6. Research of Consequence

7. What is Research Generation of new knowledge Transfer of that knowledge

8. Flavours Investment Return

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10. Grand Challenges

11. Non-silo approach Excellent curiosity driven research is not walled in, it doesn’t respect or acknowledge geographic, economic or political boundaries, its hardly ever ‘directed’ – it is organic and self propelled

12. Non-silo approach Two major local challenges: –Identify such research & layer application upon it so that its consequence can be realised –Derive mechanisms for translation of output to action via policy

13. Addressing Challenges

18. Innovation Academy Discipline-based PhD Students Generic & Transferable Skills in an interdisciplinary context Higher IQ Graduates (Innovation Quotient) Creative Thinkers Commercial Innovation Policy Innovation Social Innovation Impact & Influence

19. Our next steps Advance ‘Sustainable Society’ Identify the translational paths from non- traditional origins Think on how best to programmatically link the interests of researchers (which are individual) to development-linked return on investment (which may be intangible)