Dr. Graham Love:

My understanding is that the responsibility for intellectual property, the setting of guidelines and the way the system operates lies principally with Knowledge Transfer Ireland, which is a component funded by Enterprise Ireland. The latter set down, through KTI as it is called, the IP guidelines on local implementation for the operation of IP policies, protection and exploitation at our third level institutions and higher education institutions. Another piece of the State has a responsibility for that and it is why we kept it out of the provision.