Review of Ireland’s higher education research system - Higher Education Research Group

This report by the Higher education research group:

• provides an insight into the ecosystem and complex interdependencies that underpin our national

research system

• highlights the centrality of the health of our higher education system to the success of our research

system and vice versa

• demonstrates the impacts of funding patterns and prioritisation on the Higher Education Research

system

• offers a source of evidence for value-for-money arguments for increased investment in research. One

of the main tenets for increased investment is recognising the higher education research system’s

role as a national strategic asset through knowledge creation, and diffusion, underpinning Ireland’s

long-term economic and social sustainability

• identifies some of the ways in which of the ways in which the performance of the higher education research system, as a whole, could be strengthened for enhanced performance and impact, contributing to

broader national goals and objectives. This, in turn, could strengthen the value-for-money case for

increased investment in higher education research referenced above