Expert claims Irish food industry not realising potential as economic driver
Professor Liam Donnelly, Teagasc’s director of food research and head of Moorepark Food Research Centre, warned the industry will be by-passed by the knowledge economy unless it raises the level of its ambitions in technological innovation and increases its R and D capability.
“Over the past two decades there has been little domestic improvement in the degree of product sophistication by our two largest food sectors, meat and dairy, which continue to manufacture predominantly commodity products... This relatively static position at home contrasts with the undoubted success of some companies in establishing manufacturing operations abroad,” he said.
