The maps on research concentration among the "eight great technologies" are more predictably concentrated around the Russell Group, but Witty takes care to link rather than separate the two – the economy doesn't work like that and neither should higher education.
The arguments for research concentration do not rest on privilege.
The notion that there would be greater research concentration in a limited number of institutions does not sit well with egalitarian Australian notions.
The system being designed by the coalition – which rewards prestige, high tuition fees and research concentration – will strip funding away from universities that are disproportionately populated by working class students, forcing them to close and cut student numbers.
The recent research concentration is reflected in its publication output [76, 77]. Figure 3 shows the number of published items spanning 36 years from 1980 to 19 March 2015.
The growing acceptability of the natural gas as an energy source yields to place a higher research concentration on improving the centrifugal compressor design and performance prediction techniques.
Ng (2013) pointed out that, with present port research concentration on day-to-day port operations (that is, port performance and competition, port management and governance, ports and supply chains), research on port-region relationships has decreased considerably since the 1990s.
The report, "The Research & Innovation Performance of the G20," presents breakdowns of each G20 nation's particular areas of research concentration, along with assessment of scientific influence as reflected by citations.
Her research concentration has been on risk analysis of human and organizational factors along with technical elements, which was applied to offshore drilling, with a focus on the Negative Pressure Test in the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout as a case study.
He has also very publicly backed higher fees, and has been at the forefront of arguing for research funding concentrations, which would have left poorer universities facing closure.
