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Dr Eoin O'Sullivan

Director, Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Policy (CSTI)

Babbage Industrial Policy Network, Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

 

 

Academic Interests

  • University-industry research collaboration mechanisms
  • The evolving contribution of university research to emerging technologies and industries
  • The influence of standards and regulation on emerging technologies and industries
  • The manufacturability challenges of key emerging technologies
  • The interdependencies and linkages between elements of modern technological, manufacturing and industrial systems
  • Processes for aligning science and innovation policies with governmental industrial strategies

Background

Eoin O'Sullivan joined the Institute for Manufacturing as a Senior Policy Fellow in 2007. Since then Eoin has carried out research on the ways science and engineering R&D is translated in new technologies, industries and economic wealth. Eoin's policy-related activities have included studies for the UK Department of Business, Innovation & Skills; the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council; the UK Government Office of Science; the Technology Strategy Board; and  the Higher Education Funding Council of England.

 

Eoin is one of the organisers of the Babbage Industrial Policy Network, and is on the governance committee of the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork / Teagasc. 

 

Before joining the IfM, Eoin was Special Advisor to the Director General of Science Foundation Ireland. At SFI, Eoin managed several university-industry initiatives including the national Centres for Science, Engineering & Technology (CSET) programme. Eoin was part of the original team that set up SFI. He was both a Senior Policy Advisor at Forfas, The Irish National Policy & Advisory Board for Enterprise, Trade, Science, Technology & Innovation and a Senior Programme Officer for Information & Communications Technologies at the Foundation.

 

Eoin has a BSc from University College Cork and a D.Phil. from the Physics Department of Oxford University.

 

Selected Publications & Policy Studies 

  • Probert, D., Ford, S., Routley, M., O'Sullivan, E. Phaal, R. (2013). 'Understanding and navigating industrial emergence'. Proceeding of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture. Forthcoming.
  • O'Sullivan, E. (2013). 'S&T Innovation Systems: The Role of Manufacturing, Intermediate Institutes and Leaders' in 'Addressing Research Innovation & Leadership: The Real Issue of the Middle East and the Arab Spring', Andersson, T., Djeflat, A. (Ed.s). Innovation Technology & Knowledge Management, Springer.
  • O'Sullivan, E. and Mitchell, N. (2012). 'International Approaches to Understanding the Future of Manufacturing'. A report for the UK Government Office of Science.
  • O'Sullivan, E. and Brevignon-Dodin, L. (2012). 'The Role of Standardisation in Supporting Emerging Technologies'. A study for the UK Department of Business, Innovation & Skills and the British Standards Institute.
  • O'Sullivan, E. (2011). 'International Approaches to Manufacturing Research'. A report for the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council. 
  • Phaal, R., O'Sullivan, E. Routley, M., Ford, S., Probert, D. (2010). 'A framework for mapping industrial emergence'. Technol. Forecast Soc. Change, 78: 217-230
  • Kenward, M., O'Sullivan, E. (2010). 'Impact where it matters: The economic, social and cultural benefits of higher education in the UK'. A report for the Higher Education Funding Council of England. 
  • O'Sullivan, E. (2010). 'The Role of the National Research Base as Attractor of R&D Foreign Direct Investment'. A secondment report for the UK Department of Business, Innovation & Skills.
  • Crawley, G.M. and O'Sullivan, E. (2006). 'The Celtic Tiger and a Knowledge Economy'. Industry & Higher Education, Vol. 20 (4), 225-229.
  • Kyhm, K. Taylor, R.A., O'Sullivan, E.D., et al. (2002). 'Hot phonons and non-thermal carrier states in GaN. Physica B-Condensed Matter, 314 (1-4): 30-34
  • Kim, J., Maciel, A., O'Sullivan, E.D., et al (2000). 'Fermi-edge singularities in the photoluminescence spectrum of modulation-dope v-groove quantum wires. Physica E, 7(3-4): 517-520