Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) Initiative: Proposal to Include Uptake of Research as an Indicator for the Assessment of Applied Research

It proposes a way of doing this based on assessment by experts of brief information provided by the institution for each FOR code. ATSE is willing to assist ARC in identifying suitable assessors for this process.

ATSE is of the view that a necessary component in the assessment of the quality of applied research in the Government’s ERA initiative should be the consideration of whether the research in question, in addition to being of high quality, has had significant uptake by the private or public sectors and could thus be regarded as an exemplar of applied research excellence within Australia.