KOYA, Kushwanth and CHOWDHURY, Gobinda (2020). Measuring impact of academic research in computer and information science on society. In: APIT 2020: Proceedings of the 2020 Asia Pacific Information Technology Conference. New York. USA, Association for Computing Machinery, 78-85. [Book Section]
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Abstract
Academic research in computer & information science (CIS) has
contributed immensely to all aspects of society. As academic
research today is substantially supported by various government
sources, recent political changes have created ambivalence
amongst academics about the future of research funding. With
uncertainty looming, it is important to develop a framework to
extract and measure the information relating to impact of CIS
research on society to justify public funding, and demonstrate the
actual contribution and impact of CIS research outside academia.
A new method combining discourse analysis and text mining of a
collection of over 1000 pages of impact case study documents
written in free-text format for the Research Excellence
Framework (REF) 2014 was developed in order to identify the
most commonly used categories or headings for reporting impact
of CIS research by UK Universities (UKU). According to the
research reported in REF2014, UKU acquired 83 patents in
various areas of CIS, created 64 spin-offs, generated £857.5
million in different financial forms, created substantial
employment, reached over 6 billion users worldwide and has
helped save over £1 billion Pounds due to improved processes etc.
to various sectors internationally, between 2008 and 2013.
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