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New Ideas –
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‘Discovery Research is research that’s done for the
sake of the science, not for the sake of
applications or for economic reasons.’ – Jocelyn Bell
Burnell, Belfast-born astronomer & discoverer of pulsars, Visiting
Professor, Astrophysics, University of Oxford.
Google: a product of pure science. The ‘Page Rank’ software developed by Sergei Brin and Larry
Page emerged from a project publicly funded through the National Science Foundation in the USA.
‘It is the fundamental research that truly advances
our basic knowledge, essential understanding of
nature and natural processes, and drives the major
breakthroughs at the new frontiers of science.’
Colin O’Dowd, Director of the Centre for Climate & Air Pollution
Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)