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Director, Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Policy (CSTI), Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge
Professor O'Sullivan is a Research Professor and Babbage Fellow of Technology & Innovation Policy in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Eoin is the Director of the Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Policy based at the Institute for Manufacturing. Eoin is currently a member of the Board of Research Ireland-Taighde Éireann, Ireland's national research & innovation funding agency.
His academic interests include:
- Government foresight and strategy development for key emerging technologies
- Comparative analysis of international innovation systems, institutions, policies
- University-industry research collaboration and commercialisation mechanisms
- Intermediate R&D institutes and university-based research centres
- The 'manufacturability' and 'scale-up' challenges of key emerging technologies
- Innovation agency support for emerging science and technology R&D
Eoin O'Sullivan joined the Institute for Manufacturing as a Senior Policy Fellow in 2007. Since then Eoin has carried out research on the ways science and engineering R&D is translated in new technologies, industries and economic wealth.
Before joining the IfM, Eoin was Special Advisor to the Director General of Science Foundation Ireland.
(Link to biography: Professor Eoin O'Sullivan - Institute for Manufacturing (IfM))
