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 Increasing High Impact Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship


Our enterprise and innovation delivers scientific and economic impact – benefiting communities locally, regionally, nationally and internationally in the era of globalization. “BU will build its research around five themes – Industrialization; Digital Futures; Health and Wellbeing; agriculture and environment; sustainable Societies and Transformative Technologies.”

Strategies and Actions

1. Recruit and develop outstanding researchers at all career stages

  • Invest in coordinated research leadership programmes at University 
  • Promote effective mentoring as a key component of the University research program 
  • Create more opportunities for undergraduates to work with leading researchers and integrate research in teaching activities as part of their taught
  • Recognize and reward high level of research excellence. 
    2. Produce and effectively share high-quality research
  • Strengthening the Directorate of Graduate Studies, Research and Innovation 
  • Increasing the number of graduate programmes and strengthening their relevance and quality 
  • Support Technology Business Incubation and Innovation Center to support skilling programs 
  • Encourage and support our researchers to develop purposeful international and industrial collaborations with the potential to improve on the quality, relevancy and impact 
  • Develop entrepreneurial capacity of the University staff and students 

3. Adopt a 'systems approach' to managing research

  • Emphasize experiential undergraduate and graduate learning, and research through integrative services, programs, and courses
  • Improve the way we market our research to increase our visibility and impact by making the most use of the Internet, advertising our research in all forms of media and at conferences and through targeted events.
  • Invest in University-wide systems and processes to develop proposals, gain funding, manage research activities and partnerships, develop research impact and nurture research excellence across our University.
  • Update institutional repository to cater for research output of BU
    Increase the effect of research and innovation through the NPDIII strategic areas to develop a smart and inclusive economy