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NEW PARADIGMS FOR UNIVERSITIES

Idowu Olayinka, University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria.

E-mail: [email protected] http://www.idowuolayinka.org

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Roles of University

Inthepast….

• Education

• Generate new knowledge

through research

• Transfer the knowledge

generated to the public

for the benefit of society

Source: Yumiko Hamano

Today,addi onalrolesofuniversi es

• Fund raising for research projects

• Evaluation of technology

• Protection of research results

• Commercialization of

research results

• Licensing negotiation

• Increased collaboration

with industry

• Technology marketing

• Entrepreneurship development

• Incubation of Spin-off/ Start-up

• IP training for researchers

• Monitoring deals

IP &Tech.

Mgt.

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Addressing Conflicting Values

and Common Interest

Source: Louis P. Berneman, 1999

UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY

Commercialization

of New and Useful

Technologies

Teaching

Research

Service

Profits

Knowledge for

Knowledge’ s Sake

Academic Freedom

Open Discourse

Management of

Knowledge for Profit

Confidentiality

Limited Public Disclosure

Development R&D

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University-Industry Collaboration Infrastructure

IP Assets

Universities and

R&D institutions

•IP Policy

•IP Committee

•TTO

Industry

•Research Funds

•Research Collaborations

•Licensing

•Marketing

•Production and

Commercialization

Government

•Economic Development (SME

Policies, market creation

•National IP Infrastructure (laws and

Regulations)

•Enforcement

•IP Strategy

•R&D Enhancement

•IP Education

•Research Funds

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Research administration roles

• Funding identification

• Proposal support

• Proposal writing

• Costing and pricing

• Contract development and negotiation

• Post-award financial administration

• Project management

• Researcher development

• Funder or subject-specific support

• Ethics, governance and compliance

• PhD student administration

• Systems and information management

• Reporting

• Policy development

• Dissemination & Knowledge Transfer

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… in Africa

• Very little activity in most countries

• Recent cases have highlighted the importance of indigenous knowledge in IP

• Financial pressure on Universities

• Changing paradigm for research

• National/regional imperatives for economic development in a global economy

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Institutional Issues

• What role does the institution want to play in knowledge/technology transfer?

• Is the institutional structure supportive of knowledge/technology transfer? Institutional mission

Institutional policies and procedures

Institutional culture

• Are institutional goals and objectives defined and understood by all?

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Research Management Issues

• Ensuring full dissemination and use of research results

• Having appropriate policies in place:

Exploitation/Knowledge Transfer;

Costing and pricing;

Conflicts of Interest;

Rewards, incentives and personal fees;

Secondment

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Roles of a University Research Management office

• Define research agenda from time to time in collaboration with the various academic and administrative units

• Develop staff capacity for research through training programmes (local/overseas), workshops, conferences and seminars

• Encourage and foster multi-, inter-, and trans- disciplinary research

• Encourage mentoring of emerging scholars

• Assist in sourcing grants for projects that align with the University strategic research vision and mission

• Ensure proper management of funds in strict compliance with the University financial regulations

• Ensure ethical performance of research projects

• Monitoring and evaluation to ensure good performance of funded projects.

• Timely and effective dissemination of information on research activities.

• Assist with patenting and intellectual property rights

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Why do we need institutional research management?

• To facilitate more research activities Crucial for national development and the reason to be

a university

• To reduce frustrations associated with the conduct of research

• To set ground rules for the ethical conduct of research

• To provide ground for mentoring and continuity • To help university improve its status and enhance

its income

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ASPECTS OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

• Development of a University Strategic Plan;

• Formulation of a Research Policy;

• Establishment of a Research Management Office;

• Sensitization of Academic and Technical Staff to Research and Innovation Management

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The University of Ibadan (UI)

• Established in 1948, first as a constituent college of the University of London, became a full fledged University in 1962.

• It is a conventional university and currently has 13 Faculties and six research centres and institutes.

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• With a full-time undergraduate population of 12,507 students and 13,803 students under the distance learning mode, the university provides access to education for a large segment of Nigerian youths desirous of obtaining quality certificates from the ‘first and the best’.



• Moreover, the Postgraduate School with 7,280 students enrolled for higher degrees of Master and PhD is easily the largest of its type in Sub-Saharan Africa.



UI STRATEGIC PLAN, 2009-2014

• Occasional stock-taking for a better and brighter future is not strange to UI. Indeed, records of such exercise date back to 1952, when it took the form of a Visitation Panel. Since then, numerous visitation panels, reports, quinquennial plans, study reviews and other ad-hoc reports have been produced. The strategic planning approach is, however, of a more recent origin.



• the ultimate desire of ensuring an institution that meets the aspiration of its stakeholders more effectively, more efficiently and more equitably remains as urgent as ever. This poses a big challenge in the face of a less-than-friendly environment, especially with declining funding of the University:

• inadequate recurrent grants to the University (only about 60% of the recurrent needs of the University for some years), and

• insufficient capital grants to rehabilitate and upgrade dilapidated buildings, broken down or obsolete equipment and, if possible, finance new projects.

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• In the circumstances, it becomes even more important that the University should have a strategic plan, one that charts its path well into the future.

• And there is no better way for us to engage the enormous challenges confronting us than to develop and implement this strategic plan.



The Vision

• To be a world-class institution for academic excellence geared towards meeting societal needs.



The Mission

• To expand the frontiers of knowledge through provision of excellent conditions for learning and research;

• To produce graduates who are worthy in learning, character and sound judgment

• To contribute to the transformation of society through creativity and innovation;

• To serve as a dynamic custodian of society’s salutary values and thus sustain its integrity.



Some of the activities to strengthen research, development and innovation in the University

• Needs assessment to determine available research capacity.

• Recruit, retain and motivate a cadre of qualified research support staff.

• Upgrade library facilities to international standard.

• Reward research excellence through merit awards.

• Expand non-governmental sources of funds for research and development at UI through proceeds from patents, commercialization of research outputs, consultancies, endowments, and partnership with the private sector.

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• Create a technology park where UI’s inventions ready for commercialization will be showcased

• Strengthen the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

• Establishment of multi-disciplinary research laboratory.



Objectives of the UI research policy

• consolidate the position of the University of Ibadan as a centre of excellence for research activities;

• increase innovative and cutting-edge research activities among staff and students;

• facilitate continuous research capacity building among staff and students; and

• encourage the mainstreaming of research outcomes into teaching and community service



• The policy applies to all staff and students of the University of Ibadan and all users of its diverse resources for research.

• The University is to ensure that research activities are in line with its vision and mission and also respond to national research priorities.



The Research Management Office (RMO) shall

• ascertain the exact amount of unexpended or uncommitted funds;

• review any cost sharing or matching commitments, ascertaining which have been met and which will be transferred;

• review agreements for sub-grants, if any, ascertaining which ones have been completed and which have not;

• review agreements for equipment purchases; capitalized equipment purchased on the existing grant may move with the PI/PD;

• review commitments to personnel, including graduate students.



Authorship

• The University shall develop and operate a policy on authorship. A draft has been produced and circulated to all academic staff for input. This document presents guidelines for the appropriate attribution of credit and disposition of research products.



• These guidelines are intended to apply to research products in the broadest sense and to encompass research activities and materials spanning a continuum, from quantitative analysis of experimental data to qualitative interpretation of anthropological narratives.

• The guidelines also apply to other forms of intellectual product such as monographs, technical reports and briefings.



Intellectual Property Policy

• The University shall develop and operate a policy on intellectual property. Staff, students and visiting scholars shall abide by the intellectual property policy.

• Staff, students and visiting scholars shall acknowledge the contribution by the University to the success of their research activities in all publications and research outputs.



• The University shall honour all its research agreements and contracts.

• Publicity and Commercialization

• The research activities and outputs of the University shall be widely publicized.

• The University shall constantly identify its high potential research outputs and work toward their dissemination and commercialization



Organogram of the UI Research Management Office

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Vice -Chancellor

Deputy Vice-Chancellor

(Acad.)

University Central Research

Committee

Technical Manager

Capacity Development

Grant Sourcing/Information

Proposal Packaging/Development

Procurement/Maintenance

Implementation

Monitoring & Evaluation (M & E)

Admin. Manager

Capacity Development

Finance

Legal/Contract/MOU

Information Dissemination

Intellectual Property Right

University-Industry-Govt

Linkages

Linkage Manager

Information/Partnership

MOU

Faculty/College Research

Committee

Departmental Research

Committee

Innovation

• Developing a highly vibrant academic staff who are known for their expertise and entrepreneurial approach to work, are able to contribute to national and international development, and are effective mentors for the students that they are trying to nurture;

• Ensuring that knowledge transferred is always geared towards creativity, innovation and positive change;



Being dedicated to innovation and excellence in instructing and guiding students;

• Developing and nurturing our students to have critical and analytical minds, to be strategic and entrepreneurial in their thinking, to be innovative in their analysis and choices that are relevant to local, national and global challenges.



Strategic objectives of the research, development and innovation

• To promote innovative research and establish a structure for research management and financing.

• Promote research and documentation of indigenous knowledge systems

• Promote inter-disciplinary research that will impact on societal needs

• Promote the timely dissemination of research findings

• Promote ethical standards in research and development



The implementation strategies

• Ensure that resources for cutting edge research are available and adequate

• Promote multidisciplinary, national and international collaborative research aimed at knowledge, skill and technology exchanges and transfer.

• Promote and sustain UI’s leadership in key areas of research



• Promote partnership with the private sector in research and development.

• Ensure strict compliance with ethical standards for research and the protection of intellectual property rights.

• Provide incentives for viable and relevant research.



CENTRE FOR ENTERPENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION (CEI)

• The Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) was established in 2002. The main functions of the CEI include curriculum development in entrepreneurship and innovation, coordination of teaching and research in entrepreneurship and innovation, promotion of linkages with the private sector through research, consultancy,



• training and building networks and alliances, development of appropriate approaches for promoting innovation among entrepreneurs particularly of small businesses and students, and development of modalities for promoting linkage with government, including building appropriate institutional and legal frameworks for enhancing University-Private Sector Collaboration in Nigeria



The Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office (IPPTO)

• The IPPTO is supervised by the management of the CEI. It is supported by the National office of Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP).

• The IPPTO is facilitating the promotion, protection, preservation and commercialization of IP assets within and beyond the University of Ibadan.



CONCLUSION

• Beyond the conventional role of the University in teaching, research and community service, the changing role of universities requires that such tertiary institutions should be engaged in innovation aimed at national and international development.



• Measures are being put in place at the University of Ibadan in the last 10 years or so to achieve these goals as part of the Strategic Plan, 2009-2014. Some of these issues have been presented in this paper.

• It is intended that the initiatives will be continued in he years ahead with the cooperation of all the stakeholders.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• We thank the organisers for the opportunity extended to present this paper.

• And the wonderful audience for your kind attention.



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