Innovation, The Venturesome Economy and Ireland
Dec 1st, 2008 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
President-elect Obama's commitment to maintain America’s technology leadership in the world, through an increase in public funding of basic research, has coincided with the publication of a new book on innovation, The Venturesome Economy, which questions the value of such an approach while in Ireland, billions of euros continue to be spent on university research in pursuit of the goal to become a "world class knowledge economy" by 2013 but the Irish approach lacks a clear strategy or an informed public debate.