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07— impact assessment report 16 contents foreword_02 our economic impact_04 our research outputs_06 our engagement with business & communities_08 transforming our research into impacts_12 our education & public engagement programmes_18 supporting our alumni & young researchers_22 our international engagement_26 concluding remarks_32 industry testimonials_34 associated investigators_36 2 1 foreword CRANN, the Centre for Research Over the past fourteen years, the Since AMBER was established, For the report, we commissioned We are delighted that the hard work of on Adaptive Nanostructures and Institute has transformed how we have attracted newer and Economic & Commercial Professor Brian Lucey, leading our researchers and staff over the last Nanodevices was established in Ireland is perceived internationally for larger industrial partnerships and economist at Trinity to undertake an 10+ years is effectively demonstrated 2003 as a Science Foundation Ireland materials science. We have established significantly grown our income from evaluation of the economic impacts in this report through the significant (SFI) Centre for Science, Engineering state of the art and in some cases non-exchequer, notably European Societal that CRANN and AMBER have had in contribution that CRANN and AMBER and Technology (CSET). The founding unique infrastructure and built deep sources. AMBER’s 30 Investigators the last 10 years and to measure the have made to the economic and members of CRANN were a group of five partnerships with industry across are driving our research excellence linkages between academics and societal wellbeing of our local, regional researchers from the Schools of Physics ICT, industrial technologies, medical and in 2016, Ireland was ranked 1st International Engagement business and community. Professor and national communities and through and Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin devices and pharmaceutical sectors. in the world for nanotechnology Lucey used the Input-Output our international reach. committed to developing a national and In 2013, CRANN came together with and 3rd for materials science*. approach to analyse our economic and international centre for nanoscience the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Policy & Public Services employment impacts in Ireland. His As we look forward to the next decade, research. Their vision was to attract University College Cork and the This impact assessment report team also empirically measured the we remain committed to making a the best international researchers Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland rigorously assesses the impacts that linkages between academics based at difference to the social and economic to Ireland and to carry out world to establish the AMBER (Advanced CRANN and AMBER have made to Health & wellbeing CRANN and AMBER and business and well-being of Ireland through the leading research, which was informed Materials and BioEngineering the Irish economy and wider society community, using a field-tested survey quality of our research and training for by industry and could impact Irish Research) centre which successfully in the last 10 years. SFI have defined instrument. We commissioned Claire graduates and our engagements with competitiveness. This initial investment secured €35M for a six year research an impact framework based on Environmental O’Connell, science writer, to put togther businesses and communities both in CRANN acted as a catalyst for progamme, as part of SFI’s national their work with the Small Advanced a number of impact case studies, to nationally and internationally. We will research in nanotechnology and Research Centres initiative. Economies Initiative. We have used highlight the reach and significance work to engage with our politicians advanced materials in Ireland and the this classification to demonstrate Human Capacity of our research across a broad range and policy makers to ensure that the country now has a proven reputation our research impacts across 7 key of communities and businesses. value to Ireland of investing in materials as a global leader in these fields. pillars – Economic and Commercial, science is evident. CRANN is a flagship research institute Societal, International Engagement, within Trinity and is a key component Policy & Public Services, Health of the university’s strategic plan. We and Wellbeing, Environmental and are housed at the Naughton Institute, Human Capacity. Throughout this a 6000m2 purpose built research report we use the icons opposite to Professor Michael Morris facility with an additional 1000m2 represent our impacts in these areas. Director | AMBER specialised laboratory space located at the Grand Canal which is home to our suite of leading edge Electron Microscopes, Polymer science and Professor Stefano Sanvito Additive manufacturing laboratories. Director | CRANN * Thomson Reuters ‘InCites’ based on Essential Science Indicators and Web of Science; Citations per paper; 2 Countries with >1000 papers published 2007—2016. 3 our economic impact CRANN/AMBER IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT 2007–16 The economic impact assessment for CRANN/ Table 1.1 shows the economic impact of CRANN/AMBER Employment impact 2016 AMBER over the 10 year period of 2007–2016 on the national output over the last 10 years. The output demonstrates a very positive impact for the Irish multiplier for a sector refers to the change in total output Table 1.2 shows the employment impact of CRANN/AMBER for the economy as a whole resulting from a unit change in on the national labour market over the last 10 years. During economy; with a total income of €108 million from the final demand for that sector. To implement the input- the whole period, the Type II employment multiplier for 2007 to 2016, CRANN/AMBER generated gross output analysis for CRANN/AMBER, the first thing to do CRANN/AMBER is 12.80, which compares favourably with 14,279 output nationwide of over €505 million. was to construct a disaggregated input-output table, which the employment multipliers for each of the 21 Irish HEIs as JOBS views CRANN/AMBER as a separate ‘sector’ within the reported by Zhang et al, which ranged from 4.45 to 8.84*. NATIONWIDE ‘Education Service’ sector as a whole from the National The main driver behind our high employment multiplier is Accounts, based on Central Statistics Office data. The that CRANN/AMBER, when compared with each HEI, has Type I output multiplier for a particular industry is defined raised very significant funding relative to its headcount to be the total of all outputs from each domestic industry (larger ratio of income to number of staff). With a total required in order to produce one additional unit of output, employment of 1116 staff, CRANN/AMBER generated while the Type II output multiplier incorporates not only the 14,279 jobs nationwide. increase in demand for intermediate inputs but also induced household consumption effects. In other words, the Type I Employment refers to the total FTEs of CRANN/AMBER €505m multiplier can be defined as direct and indirect effects, and between 2007 and 2016. The Type II employment multiplier GROSS OUTPUT NATIONWIDE the Type II multiplier can be defined as direct, indirect and is the ratio of direct, indirect and induced employment induced effects. As we are concerned with wider economic changes to the direct employment change. impact of CRANN/AMBER on the national economy, it is the Type II output multipliers that are presented here. Table 1.1 Economic impact of CRANN/AMBER Table 1.2 Employment impact of CRANN/AMBER in the input-output approach in the input-output approach YEAR INCOME TYPE II OUTPUT IRISH ECONOMIC YEAR NUMBER OF TYPE II EMPLOYMENT 1,116 MULTIPLIER IMPACT EMPLOYEES EMPLOYMENT ON IRISH STAFF MULTIPLIER ECONOMIC IMPACT 2007 7.05 4.31 30.39 2007 60 8.34 500 2008 8.78 4.11 36.09 2008 60 6.40 381 2009 15.71 3.51 55.14 2009 85 4.48 381 2010 7.28 4.17 30.36 2010 107 12.84 1374 2010 8.21 5.43 44.58 2011 71 11.49 816 2012 9.80 4.66 45.67 2012 119 11.74 1397 2013 11.09 6.12 67.87 2013 131 17.17 2249 2014 14.33 4.83 69.21 2014 137 10.81 1481 €108m 2015 12.05 4.93 59.41 2015 162 19.65 3183 TOTAL INCOME 2007–16 2016 13.43 4.94 66.34 2016 184 13.66 2513 Total €107.73 4.69 €505.05 Total 1116 12.80 14279 (Current prices, million euro) (Current prices, million euro) 2007 For every 1 euro invested, CRANN/AMBER has helped the Irish economy to grow by 5 euro * Zhang, Q., Larkin, C. and Lucey, B.M. (2017), ‘The economic impact of higher education institutions in 4 Ireland: evidence from disaggregated input-output tables,’ Studies in Higher Education, 42(9), 1601—1623 5 our research outputs CRANN/AMBER IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT 2007–16 Our high impact publications have included: Citation impact Ireland is consistently improving in global • Professor Jonathan Coleman’s • Professor Ed Lavelle’s publication The Field-Weighted Citation Impact is a measure of how scientific rankings, and CRANN and AMBER Nature Materials publication (2014) in Immunity (2016) which provides the number of citations an institution has received in a are significant contributors to these rankings. on his novel method for producing a new perspective on the design particular discipline relates to the global average. Shown industrial quantities of high quality of vaccines. One of the key in Table 2.2 is the calculated Field-Weighted Citation for Since the start of AMBER in 2013, the country graphene by liquid exfoliation. The components in a vaccine is an Trinity College (2.06) in comparison to other recognised has risen in the international materials science research led to the technology being adjuvant, which serves to enhance global leaders in materials science including the top five rankings (by citation) and in 2016, was ranked transferred to Thomas Swan Ltd. our body’s immune response to universities as identified in QS subject rankings (MIT, 1st in Nanoscience and 3rd in Materials Science as a royalty bearing license.