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Mon 07 Jul 2009Operation Innovation
EXIT STRATEGY - SMART ECONOMY:Ireland has a lot of what's made Silicon Valley so successful - a good quality workforce, angel investors and appropriate infrastructure
THE APPOINTMENT last week of a 28-strong innovation taskforce aimed at making the "smart economy" a reality has been met with a mixed response. Is the taskforce, which will advise the Government on how it can foster innovation and entrepreneurship, a credible effort at helping to restructure Ireland's economy, or just another quango, the last thing the country needs right now?
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