Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed)

Professor Cormac Taylor:

Yes, we build on it and some is stand-out work. Similarly, within innovation, the analogy is that we do not rate a university on how many papers it publishes but it the quality of those papers and the impact they have. We should not be judging innovation success on how many start-ups there are but on the successful start-ups. There might be one successful start-up-----