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Wed 09 Sep 2008Innovation stems from cultural capital
OPINION:National identity and traditions, and not solely academic research, provide the conditions for a society of innovation and entrepreneurship, write Finbarr Bradley and James Kennelly
IN HIS opinion piece (September 19th), Prof Tom Begley of UCD Business School argues that in order to compete successfully, Ireland should offer enormous salaries to academic researchers. Otherwise, he writes, the only knowledge that will exist in the Irish economy is that which "has been left in the dust by other nations".
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