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An interesting debate has started up in Ireland in the past few months on the justification for Ireland's investment in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET), now more usually called Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) to emphasise the importance of the potential exploitation of the results of research by relevant industries.

This page aims to catalogue some primary inputs to this debate, and does not of itself espouse a particular position. For that see other articles I have published on Ireland and STI. This blog does not have comments enabled, so if you wish to comment please email me at mofoghlu attt tssg.org -- I am happy to add additional content as long is it available publicly on-line.

• Sunday Business Post articles:
  
  
  
  • 16th Aug - Response to Tol's article (see below) by Graham Love (SFI)
    http://www.thepost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=NEWS+FEATURES-qqqm=nav-qqqid=43759-qqqx=1.asp
  
  
  • 09th Aug - Article questioning current Irish STI policy by Richard Tol (ESRI)
    http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=GUEST+WRITER-qqqm=nav-qqqid=43614-qqqx=1.asp
  
  
  • Blog version of 1st by Tol with comment responses from the Internet
    http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2009/08/10/ireland%E2%80%99s-flagging-innovation-strategy-needs-a-radical-overhaul/
    
  
  
• Irish Times articles
  
  
  
  • 20th Aug - Article on Science Funding by Michael Hennigan (Finfacts)
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0820/1224252951654.html
  
  
  • 06th Jul - Article on Innovation Taskforce in Innovation Magazine
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/innovation/2009/0706/1224250001121.html
    
  
  
• Chris Horn's blog - he is on the Innovation Taskforce
  
  
  
  • 18th Jul - Comment on 1st meeting of Innovation Taskforce
    http://chrishornat.blogspot.com/2009/07/innovation-task-force-first-meeting.html
  
  
  • 18th Aug - Comment on statistics he gathered on Irish exits 2000-2009
    http://chrishornat.blogspot.com/2009/08/irish-technology-exits-2000-2009.html
    
  
  
  • 19th Aug - Irish Venture Capital investments 2008/2009 (link to GoogleDocs via twitter):
    http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BxsAN4FL7PFsZjIyNDgxZGUtZmMyYy00N2RkLWE5NWQtNDY1MWVmMGY2YjMx&hl=en
  
  
• Innovation Blog
  
  
  
  • 06th Jul - Post critiquing lack of debate on smart economy by Karl Whelan (UCD)
    http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2009/07/06/some-more-contributions-to-innovation-debate/#more-2984
  
  
  • 29th Jun - Commenting on Innovation Taskforce by Karl Whelan (UCD)
    http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2009/06/29/innovation-taskforce-appointed/#more-2882
  
  
• UCD/TCD Innovation Alliance Initiative
  
  
  
  • 11 Mar - Announcement of TCD/UCD "Innovation Alliance"
    http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/news/pressreleases/pressRelease.php?headerID=1121&pressReleaseArchive=2009
  
  
• The Innovation Taskforce
  
  
  
  • Announcement:
    http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/Government_Press_Office/Taoiseach%27s_Press_Releases_2009/Taoiseach_Appoints_Innovation_Taskforce_to_Support_the_Development_of_the_Smart_Economy.html
    
  
  
  • Main web page:
    http://www.taoiseach.ie/eng/Innovation_Taskforce/
  
  
  • Call for Submissions (DEADLINE Fri 18th Sep 2009):
    http://www.taoiseach.ie/eng/Innovation_Taskforce/Request_for_Submissions/
  
  
  • The Innovation Task Force tag on twitter
    http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23itaskforce <- does a twitter search for the tag
  
  
• Mícheál Ó Foghlú's blog
  
  
  
  • 16th Aug - Comment on nature of Research Institutes
    http://www.ofoghlu.net/log/2009/08/does_ireland_need_independent.html