Aisling Dolan (Fine Gael)
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I am interested in this so I will ask for an example. Who are those teams? Do they exist already? We have technology transfer teams and we have commercialisation officers in our research offices. Who are the teams the professor is speaking of? Who identifies the people who are the entrepreneurs or the innovators? The science is there. Whatever the results are from research, and there is something that may have an impact and that may make a difference - it could be in the social sciences, medicine, engineering or so many different areas - how do we identify the person who will take that and say "I can see an application and a way that will make a difference in someone's life and it could be in the market in three to four years time"?