Baseline Assessment of the Public Research System in Ireland in the areas of Biotechnology and Information and Communication Technologies

Forf??s commissioned this review in order to provide a ???Baseline Assessment of the Public Research System in Ireland in the areas of Information & Communication Technologies and Biotechnology???. The aim of the study was to assess the level and quality of ICT and biotechnology research and the capabilities of the Irish research base, to establish how Ireland???s current research compares with best international practice, and to provide parameters against which the progress of Science Foundation Ireland could be evaluated over the coming years.