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Mon 04 Apr 2009Research
OPINION:We are gambling borrowed money on our fourth level scientists finding a technology they can bring to market, writes DECLAN JORDAN
THE RESEARCH merger which has been announced by UCD and Trinity sets itself some very ambitious targets. It hopes to create 300 new businesses and 30,000 jobs, based on an investment of €650 million from government, industry and private funding. The fundamental basis for thinking such a merger can succeed is that the new alliance provides a critical mass of research, including important infrastructure to support commercialisation of new scientific discoveries.
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