INDICATORS OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY CO-OPERATION
Attachment 12:Indicators Of Sustainability
Definition:It should be emphasised that use of the term ‘sustainability’ does not refer to environmental factors or social balance, but refers to the project/case itself.In simple terms there is sustainability of the direct activities of the project/case, i.e. its successful completion and continuation; and sustainability in terms of secondary or structural effects that sustain the aims and ideas of the project through other means and additional resources.
Sustainability covers issues such as duration, continuity, balance, permanence and stability of the case/project and its development.
Project sustainability
Duration:
- has the project continued throughout its planned duration or funding period?
- what % of total project funding has been utilised?
Continuity:
- does the project have clear plans and funds to continue?
- has the project secured external sources of funding to enable it to continue?
Self-sustaining:
- is the project designed to become self-sustaining after an initial investment (e.g. loan repayments that will then support further ventures)?
- does the project have a forward business plan for generating its own internal revenue?
Secondary effects
Projects that create economic or social impact that causes or accelerates further changes (e.g. training schemes for trainers; projects that alter attitudes; increasing the availability of enabling technology).
Effects:
- have any project participants been engaged in subsequent related activity resulting directly from the project?
- have any outcomes, products, publications etc of the project been adopted subsequently in other related initiatives or activities?
- have any profits or income generated by the project been subsequently invested in or used to support other related initiatives or activities?
Equity:
- are these secondary effects proportionate to the target enterprise/SME and gender and ethnicity composition of the project (i.e. have similar numbers proven to have benefited and progressed from the project) in the following sectors?
- business and employment
- academic/research, teaching, training
- public/government positions
Stability:
- does the project organisation and infrastructure have a finite lifespan?
- does the project have a plans to maintain the organisation and structure beyond the lifespan of the project?
- no. of enterprises or organisational units who are dependent on continuation of the project.
- no. of jobs (FTE) that are dependent on continuation of the project.
- has the project made a risk assessment and contingency for failure to secure funding?
Enabling:
- no. of individuals/organisations that have used products (publications, ‘tool kits’ etc) from the project
no. of businesses/organisations that have formally used patent licenses from the projec
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