Government, funders, end users and other stakeholders
Geri helps institutions, researchers and related professionals improve their engagement, relevance and impact beyond academia. It does so by growing engagement capabilities using the Geri approach.
Research by McKinsey highlights the importance of capabilities in enabling individual and organisational success (1). For countries such as Australia that historically rank below many OECD competitors when it comes to leveraging research into industry, the value of Geri should not be underestimated.
Growing Geri capabilities across the research value chain delivers value to government, funders, end users and other stakeholders. For instance:
Research impact - whilst research impact is increasingly considered alongside research quality, without investment in engagement capability development unlocking this value is being impaired.
Investment attraction - institutions and researchers have a critical role to play in investment attraction, growing Geri capabilities aids this.
De-risk major investments (e.g. precincts) - currently millions is spent on new and existing research-related infrastructure and projects with little regard to engagement capability development; this impairs the ability of investments to realise their potential, wastes money and reduces economic development.
Knowledge intensive job creation - institutions and researchers directly and indirectly contribute to knowledge intensive job creation; by focusing on Geri capability development we are likely to increase this.
Return on investment of R&D - growing Geri capabilities amongst institutions, faculties, teams and individuals promotes a more strategic, value-driven approach to engagement.
Industry competitiveness and transformation - against a backdrop of technology fuelled innovation, many sectors are undergoing transformation. Growing Geri capabilities is likely to improve knowledge transfer or exchange between institutions, researchers and industries.
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What working with Geri might look like:
Meeting to discuss and share insights on Geri and the Geri approach in the context of your priorities
Investigating a Geri pilot. For example, there may be a specific research-related investment, project or project team that could benefit from Geri capability development
Engaging the researchers or institutions with whom you interact to understand current, planned and potential engagement/ impact capability development initiatives
Sponsoring a Geri workshop or PD program
Collaborating with Geri and specific institutions/teams to develop and roll out a program that is responsive to funder / government priorities.
(1) McKinsey, (2014) ‘Building capabilities for performance’.