Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has celebrated its 10th anniversary with the announcement that it has backed more than 600 partnerships between research teams and firms last year.
At a function marking the anniversary, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation Batt O’Keeffe described SFI’s journey as a “decade of discovery, pioneering research and teamwork involving brilliant minds from here and abroad who have conducted wide-ranging research on Irish soil.”
At the end of 2009, SFI-funded researchers were working with 389 firms and directly supported 3,225 researcher team members – up 15% on 2008.
The director general of SFI, Professor Frank Gannon, said: “There is now an unprecedented momentum in innovation in this country exemplified by the excellent day-to-day research conducted in laboratories across Ireland’s higher education institutions.
“The fact that there is now more engagement between SFI-funded researchers and the enterprise sector is a source of particular optimism for future commercial output.”
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