HEIF and the capacity of HEIF and the capacity of modern universitiesmodern universitiesMark Gray (Middlesex University)

The evolution of “third stream” funding 2000-2011

Programme Funding period

HEIF 4 2008/09 – 2010/11

HEIF 3 2006/07- 2007/08

HEIF 2 2004/5-2005/06

HEIF 1 36 months from award (earliest Dec 2001)

Business Fellowships Aug 2001 to July 2005

KTCF Aug 2004 to July 2006

HEACF 2 Sep 2004 to July 2006

HEACF 1 March 2002 to Aug 2004

HEROBC Transitional Funding

Aug 2003 to July 2004

HEROBC Round 2 Aug 2000 to July 2004

HEROBC Round 1 Jan 2000 to July 2003

Business engagement

Knowledgetransfer

Communityengagement

KT and BCI, 2011KT and BCI, 2011

BCI activities include Collaborative research involving public funding and funding from business (e.g. CASE awards and KTPs) Contract research for business and non-commercial organisations, where business/non-commercials are

commissioners of the work. Consultancy contracts CPD, continuing education and other courses Funded regeneration activities Granting technology licenses for exclusive or non-exclusive use by business or non-commercial

organisations Income from all other sources of intellectual property Spin-offs with various degrees of ownership Graduate business start-ups Social, community and cultural engagement by means of free and chargeable events

Characteristics of engagementCharacteristics of engagement

• Outputs of third stream work must not include core teaching provision or funded research, but may build upon them

• Outputs must have an economic impact or community/social impact that goes beyond the existing benefits of meeting the teaching and research expectations

• Outputs are market-related: they find a price determined by the interaction of largely unfettered forces of supply and demand

• Outputs from the third stream benefit a wide range of ‘clients’, including business and community agencies.

HEFCE’s (2008) perception of the role of HEIF

Source: HEFCE circular October 2008/35, p. 5

Sources of university research and innovation income

HEBCI income by type 2003 to 2009

HEIF outputs: patents, licences and spinouts from UK higher education

Planned Science and Research funding in the UK, 2011-2015

Source: BIS Annual Innovation report 2010

New HEIF round (August 2011- 2015)

• Formula approach maintained from HEIF4

• ‘incentivising performance, moving away from the capacity-building element’ in the formula

• Increasing the maximum level for allocations

• Setting a threshold allocation (removing HEIF allocation from some institutions entirely)

• Funding maintained at cash level from end of HEIF4, in each year of the new round

The March-April consultation

• HEFCE is calling upon institutions to respond to proposals for the future management and disposition of the HEIF (Higher Education Innovation Fund).

• HEFCE invites comment on the following questions:

(i) ‘Is our proposal of a threshold HEIF allocation a satisfactory and appropriate response to the need now to focus HEIF on the most effective KE [knowledge exchange] performers?’

(ii) ‘Are there additional metrics available now that capture the breadth and benefits from KE activity, including activity primarily leading to non-monetised benefits, and that could be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of KE performance and could be collected in a fairly low-burden way?’

(iii) ‘Do you have any other comments on any aspects of the policies, method and funding for HEIF 2011-15?’