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SAVING SCIENCE:The absence of a secure career path is a huge obstacle to attracting the very people needed to help create a ‘smart economy’ in Ireland

IT’S A PRETTY big ask, to raise an Innovation Island from the ashes of economic ruin. But that’s one of the aims of the Government’s proposed “smart economy”, which plans to turn scientific research into innovative gold.