Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 April 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Waterford Institute of Technology: Financial Statements 2013-2014

9:00 am

Dr. Graham Love:

Could I continue because this is important? What we are trying to do with the knowledge economy is to increase the amount of this kind of research, increase the use and development of those types of technologies to spin out, to be licensed and to be attractive to foreign direct investment companies to place their investments here to employ people. That is a major part of national research and development policy. In some cases there is direct financial return, more often it is as I mentioned.