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The Irish, US and Northern Irish Governments set up something called the US-Ireland R&D partnership. It is still running and is funded by all three jurisdictions.
As for the question of where the funding for that would come from, we might be able to divert some of the R and D money that is being used to produce high-growth firms and which, as I have suggested, is a little misplaced.
I was going to add that, only last week, the World Economic Forum published an article that compared the Queensferry crossing project with the new Bay bridge project in San Francisco, which said that Scotland got it right and America did not do so well.
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This issue has been explored by a group of scholars investigating Montgomery's impact.1Devaney, S., Purshouse, C., Cave, E., Heywood, R., Miola, J., & Reinach, N. (2018).
You mentioned earlier the headroom that is being created because of the reduction in R and D. That is not a comfortable position to be in, given that a key point in your submission is that low investment in R and D is one of the problems with the Scottish economy.