Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Annual Report 2011: Discussion with Marine Institute
2:50 pm
Dr. Peter Heffernan:
The key attribute of designing support nationally and investing in science is not to try to pick the winner. In a sense, one has to create the environment where the best ideas will be tested. They can break it, make it and make it better so as to encourage people to fail and gain. That is the formula.