2017/18 Research Support Fund Reporting

June 8, 2018

In 2017/18, Laurier received $2,200,172 from the Research Support Fund. The grant was allocated as follows:

• Research Facilities: $568,447
• Research Resources: $338,874
• Regulatory Requirements and Accreditation: $198,993
• Management and Administration: $1,042,575
• Intellectual Property: $51,283

Research Facilities

• Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain quality research space for faculty and student research.
• Indicator: Faculty and student research spaces are operational throughout the year.
• Output: 66,367 square feet of research space maintained and operational across all Laurier.

• • Research Support Fund information on research facilities.

Research Resources

• Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain the level of institutional support related to dissemination of faculty research through our institutional repository.
• Indicator: The number of downloads of faculty research from the institutional repository.
• Output: Support 314,000 downloads of faculty research from the institutional repository, an 21% increase over 2016/17 and a 34% since 2015/16.

• • Research Support Fund information on research resources.

Regulatory Requirements and Accreditation

• Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain annual reporting compliance as mandated by the Tri-Council policy statement.
• Indicator: All active protocols submit the required annual report.
• Output: Remained compliant with Tri-Council policies for Research Ethics Board.

• • Research Support Fund information on regulatory requirements and accreditation.

Management and Administration of an Institution’s Research Enterprise

• Institutional Performance Objective: Continue to support Tri-Council grant applications and process Tri-Council awards.
• Indicator: The number and quality of Tri-Council grant applications being submitted by Laurier faculty and the number of successful awards.
• Output: Supported the submission grants totalling approximately $41 million, including 135 Tri-Council grants. The number of grant applications submitted to the Tri-Councils increased 17% over 2016/17. Laurier is continuing to see high success rates with an NSERC Discovery grant success rate of 75%.

• • Research Support Fund information on management and administration of an institution’s research enterprise.

Intellectual Property and Knowledge Mobilization

• Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain the level of institutional support for industry-led projects.
• Indicator: The number of new industry-led projects initiated.
• Output: Industry-led project funding increased by 15% over 2016/2017 and by 50% since 2015/16.

• • Research Support Fund information on intellectual property and knowledge mobilization.