Principal Investigator

Lawrence Dooley, University College Cork (photo by Tomas Tyner, UCC )

How to gain private sector funding for discovery science

By rnd-admin
on 9 November, 2020

A game of chess is how Dr Lawrence Dooley describes the strategy that academic principal investigators (PI) have had to develop to ensure funding for discovery science. He discusses how conflicts in different agenda risks stifling blue-sky research prized...

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Discovery science for the Large Hadron Collider upgrade will fast track innovation

By rnd-admin
on 9 October, 2020

The upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider requires new technologies and components. Professor Carsten Welsch believes this development that initially targets discovery science has excellent potential to translate into medical and industrial applications.

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Absorptive Capacity Audit

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