It was refreshing to read that one of the outputs of Ireland's recent Innovation Task Force Report has been the establishment of an Innovation Fund RTE, Irish Times, Bloomberg.
Chris Horn explains the context in his excellent blog post: Innovation Fund: Go, Ireland, Go ｫ Chrisjhorn's Blog
For the TSSG's view of research and innovation in Ireland see our submission to the Task Force, the page also has links to the resulting Task Force Report.
The TSSG has published a series of editorials in Public Service review: Science & Technology. This lists them all with links to the on-line version.