The role of universities has expanded to include being a driver of innovation. We suggest that any such body so charged is perhaps best suited to achieve this if it itself is innovative. We review the literature on corporate innovation, discuss a recent metric of innovative culture and present...

In a time when there are only limited funding and staffing but ever-increasing enrollments of students, to assess the efficiency of universities becomes a crucial task, which itself is vital for effective allocation and utilisation of educational resources. The main aim of this paper is to...

The aim of this legislation is to address some of the unfinished business related to the development of a consolidated legislative framework for higher education and research in Ireland. At present there are over half a dozen pieces of legislation related to higher education. These were drafted...

This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the funding mechanisms for higher education across sixteen countries which builds upon existing work on educational institutions, educational outcomes and welfare regimes. We focus upon the current financing dilemma within the Irish higher education...

We provide, for the first time, a disaggregated input output table for Irish higher education. Using this we constructed type I and type II multipliers for gross output. We find that Irish higher education institutions have high, but explicable, Type II multipliers. Taking account of the...

We present the results of a survey of Irish higher education staff, the aim of which was to ascertain a broad picture of the nature and extent of their engagement with various stakeholders. Contrary to the stereotype of academics living in 'ivory towers' and not being engaged with 'the real...