AHMAD SADDAM HUSEIN

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Pada tahun 2006, Departemen Pendidikan Australia mengumumkan implementasi the
Research Quality Framework (RQF) yang bertujuan untuk mengarahkan agar penelitianpenelitian yang dilakukan memiliki impact yang luas di masyarakat. Impact yang hendak dicapai
dalam framework tersebut mencakup aspek sosial, ekonomi, lingkungan, dan budaya (Duyrea et
al, 2007). Kajian serupa dilakukan oleh Brody (2006) yang mengevaluasi impact hasil-hasil
penelitian di Fakultas Teknik, Sains, dan Matematik, Universitas Southampton.
Dr Michael Spence (2013) said that All research is designed to have impact, like
generating new understanding of the universe or of our collective history.
Impact measures included: outstanding social, economic, environment, or cultural benefit;
adoption of new policies, products, attitudes, and behaviors; or efforts to deal with issues of
societal importance. All things that are easily observed over the life cycle of a government.
Social benefit:
Improving quality of life; stimulating new approaches to social issues; changes in community
attitudes, and influence upon developments or questions in society at large; informed public
debate and improved policy-making; enhancing the knowledge and understanding of the nation;
improved equity; and improvements in health, safety and security.
Economic benefit:
Improved productivity; adding to economic growth and wealth creation; enhancing the skills
base; increased employment; reduced costs; increased innovation capability and global
competitiveness; improvements in service delivery; and unquantified economic returns resulting
from social and public policy adjustments.
Environmental benefit:
Improvements in environment and lifestyle; reduced waste and pollution; improved
management of natural resources; reduced consumption of fossil fuels; uptake of recycling
techniques; reduced environmental risk; preservation initiatives; conservation of biodiversity;
enhancement of ecosystem services; improved plant and animal varieties; and adaptation to
climate change.
and Cultural benefit:
Supporting greater understanding of where we have come from, and who and what we are as a
nation and society; understanding how we relate to other societies and cultures; stimulating

creativity within the community; contributing to cultural preservation and enrichment; and
bringing new ideas and new modes of experience to the nation. (Donovan)
Research Quality Framework (RQF) is a component of Backing Australia's Ability, an
initiative of the Australian Government to formulate a best practice framework for assessing
research quality and the impact of research, and ensure that public funding is being invested in
research which will deliver real benefits to the wider community.
The Australian Government has therefore decided to develop a Research Quality
Framework (RQF) that will provide a more consistent and comprehensive approach to assessing
the quality and impact of publicly funded research. An RQF, when developed, may be the basis
for future allocations of research funding.
The development of an RQF will involve a detailed examination of the twin issues of
research excellence and research impact. In relation to research impact, two issues need to be
explored: impact within the academic context; and its broader impact for society, through
economic, environmental and social benefits. To this end, there is a series of targeted proposals
that need to be discussed, including such topics as how the quality and impact of research should
be recognised and measured and who should assess the quality and impact of research in
Australia.
A research impact is an occasion of influence and hence it is not the same thing as a
change in outputs or activities as a result of that influence, still less a change in social outcomes.
Changes in organizational outputs and social outcomes are always attributable to multiple forces
and influences. Consequently, verified causal links from one author or piece of work to output
changes or to social outcomes cannot realistically be made or measured in the current state of
knowledge.
A research impact is also emphatically not a claim for a clear-cut social welfare gain
(i.e. it is not causally linked to a social outcome that has been positively evaluated or validated
as beneficial to society in some way).
Research and experimental development (R&D) are one component of innovation
comprising creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of
knowledge.1 The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) classifies R&D into four types of
activity: pure basic research; strategic basic research; applied research including new ways of
achieving specific and predetermined objectives such as clinical practice; and experimental
development.

Research innovation is possible to creat an innovative and creative research that can
develop application of a new science or a new way to apply science and technology before into a
product or process.
What are functions of research innovation?
Innovation is a key determinant for long term economic growth and development. Increasing the
innovation speed at a national level is a highly complicated process, yet influencing the
innovation direction is even harder (Hekker et al. 2007).
The research innovation functions are
1. Knowledge development
2. Guidance of the other research
3. Creation of legitimacy/counteract resistance to change
4. Make it easier for the organism activity and life
5. Solved the current problem
6. Increased the human productivity
When the time and level of maturing at the optimal condition, the reseearcher have to support
the research before with innovation research. If there is no innovation research, it will be
decreasing of maturing level through aging/decay.
Penelitian kreatif adalah penelitian yang memiliki kemampuan gagasan atau ide untuk
menciptakan sesuatu yang lebih menarik.
Penelitian inovatif adalah kegiatan penelitian, pengembangan, dan/atau perekayasaan
yang bertujuan mengembangkan penerapan praktis nilai dan konteks ilmu pengetahuan yang
baru, atau cara baru untuk menerapkan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi yang telah ada ke dalam
produk atau proses produksi.
Referance
Brody, T.D. 2006. Evaluating Research Imthrough Open Access to Scholarly Communication.
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southampton.
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Duryea, M, Hochman, M, dan Parfitt, A. 2007. Measuring the impact of research. Research
Global. The Australian Technology Network of University.
Spence, Michael. 2013. How best to measure the value of research. The Chronicle of Higher
Education. http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=12096
Hekker et al. 2007. Functions of innovation systems: A new approach for analysing
technological change. Technological Forecasting & Social Change 74 (2007) 413 432.