Research and Innovation

Overview

IARSAC International University is a private university, established in 2024. IIU mission is to increase the quality, affordability and access to tertiary education around the globe. At IIU we aspire to create, build and enrich life-long prosperity for the common global citizen by inspiring and advancing self-determination through education. The objectives of the IIU Research are aligned with the mission and goals of the University.

The University aims to enrich the intellectual life of IIU by enlarging its academic network and promoting high-caliber research in areas of excellence, with demonstrable impact and strong community engagement. As a private global university, our interconnectedness provides an opportunity to develop multi-cultural interdisciplinary expertise in research, which can make meaningful contributions to the international community. The University’s research collaborations with industry and the broader academic and nonacademic community will strengthen the employability of IIU graduates and enhance the reputation of our university.

Learn about how we support the University

In order to support and deliver the University’s mission it is Research and Innovation’s strategic intention to drive the exploitation of research and knowledge transfer opportunities in order to deliver significant added value to the University, the wider economy and community.

Research and Innovation will:

Provide information and intelligence.
Maintain and develop organizational capabilities
Create, enable and communicate research and knowledge transfer opportunities

Research and Innovation’s activities are:

Generating new knowledge and supporting the generation of new knowledge in the University and with partners
Exchanging, transferring and exploiting knowledge for the economic, social and environmental benefits of the University, staff, the city, the region and wider.
Winning funding and generating income for University activities and projects aligned with the University’s intentions and ambitions.

Our mission

To grow, support and safeguard IIU’s research enterprise, allowing investigators to be successful in their sponsored program initiatives.
Connects researchers to create innovations that affect the well-being of society in a sustainable manner.
To establish partnerships with other institutions that lead international research excellence.
To apply the science of quality through the pursuit of excellence, innovation and sustainability.

Our Vision

Attracting the best and brightest minds from a variety of fields and applying the science of quality through the pursuit of excellence, innovation and sustainability

Research Objectives

To create and implement a standardized scoring system to rank quality and determine funding of internally supported research projects
To promote a research-training environment focused on job-ready graduates
To establish niche research excellence, focused on the faculty’s and student’s research areas of interest
To develop internal and external benchmarks against which selected outcomes of monitoring key performance indicators can be compared to gauge success in conduct of the research mission
To deliver impactful innovation through collaborative engagement in research projects with industry, business, governments, and the communities
To focus our efforts on research excellence with interdisciplinary lens
To establish IIU wide criteria and approval process for awarding designation of “Research Center” and “Research Institute”
To create a culture of intellectual curiosity & scholarship and conduct research of the highest ethical standards to generate new knowledge through research & discovery to advance the well-being and welfare of humankind
To develop a world-class research workforce and culture at IIU
To create a reward system that includes incentives for extramurally funded research and promotion criteria that recognizes and promote collaborative investigations, including intra & inter-departmental and inter-college collaboration
To build and develop our faculty’s and students’ research to achieve international recognition
To expand opportunities for increased participation of Faculty and Students in research, including student and junior faculty mentoring program
To expand technology transfer (commercialization) program that provides both reputational and financial returns on IIU’s investment in intellectual property generating research, and, contributes to priorities for economic development and diversification in the United States.
To expand our research network to provide value to the broader academic and non-academic community including our employees
To ensure our research has demonstrable impact within the international community
To formulate and implement robust policies and programs to consistently ensure high ethical standards in the conduct of research at IIU
To generate knowledge related to the complex nature of our world by engaging in research in the humanities to address dynamic changes and rapid developments
To Enhance the Bridge between IIU’s research mission and stakeholders within the community and business leadership