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'Technologies for the marketing of Live Shellfish' achieved their objective, and reduced their own relevance, by developingsystems which met the major company needs for maintenance of live lobsters.Nature of Applied R&D: Another important distinction was between Centres which focused on "market led R&D" and thosefocused on "S&T driven R&D". The former were quicker to attract early industry interest and interaction, but industry attractiondiminished when the market-relevant aspects of the centre's expertise were either commercialized or shown to be non-viable.For those centres which offered services, those which were market-led were dramatically more effective, but the rigors ofdelivery were often not attractive to academic staff. It remains to be seen if there is a difference between these two categoriesin terms of longer term sustainabilityIn summary, there were some interesting variations in the design and method of operation of the 10 Centres. This public fundingis being scaled down and will probably be phased out over the next few years. Already there is evidence that some of theseCentres cannot and will not survive when they are forced to sustain themselves. Valuable lessons about long term sustainabilityof these centres has been learned and these are being used by Enterprise Ireland to develop new centres.Madrid, October 20, 21 & 22 - 2010289