{"id":307,"date":"2009-07-05T22:17:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T22:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2009-07-05T22:17:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T22:17:44","slug":"innovation-research-innovation-whats-the-formula-for-a-smart-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/innovation-research-innovation-whats-the-formula-for-a-smart-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation, research &#038; innovation what&#8217;s the formula for a smart economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a debate raging at the moment in Ireland about the smart economy and it appears in these undoubtly tough times <a href=\"http:\/\/universitydiary.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/02\/my-goodness-were-struggling-with-the-innovation-idea\/\">we are struggling with the innovation idea<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2607\/3691759174_3221b92164.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: miguelpdl on flicker http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/miguelpdl\/3691759174\/ \"\nBut I wonder is this debate about the right balance between <a href=\" http:\/\/readaroundresearch.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/industry-collaboration-and-academic.html\">industry collaboration and academic research<\/a> or is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&#038;storycode=406559&#038;c=1\">the pursuit of IP a distraction<\/a>.<br \/>\nCan it be that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/innovation\/2009\/0608\/1224248124508.html\">shearing Ireland&#8217;s science budget would be a mistake of monumental proportions<\/a> because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcentral.ie\/article.aspx?id=13567\">the figures are only coming to light now<\/a>, or are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finfacts.ie\/irishfinancenews\/article_1017027.shtml\">these really all the facts and figures<\/a>.<br \/>\nMaybe this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourtechstuff.com\/techwire\/2009\/06\/why-most-of-ireland-has-little-interest-in-a-smart-economy.html\">new Innovation Taskforce will get to the bottom of it<\/a> and set us on the right track, that&#8217;s of course assuming that Ireland cares!<br \/>\nAt least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idaireland.com\/locations\/business-technology-parks\/\">the science parks are in place<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iasp.ws\/publico\/intro.jsp\">maybe the key<\/a>.<br \/>\nI leave these thoughts with a quote via @<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budiu.info\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/an-interview-with-leslie-lamport\/\">Leslie Lamport<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jean Renoir wrote in his autobiography that someone once asked his father, the painter Auguste, why he painted from nature. Renoir p\u00e8re answered that if he were to try painting a tree in the studio, he would be able to draw four or five different kinds of leaves, and the rest would all look like them. But nature creates millions [his count] of different kinds of trees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a debate raging at the moment in Ireland about the smart economy and it appears in these undoubtly tough times we are struggling with the innovation idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7O9Cj-4X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}