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In recent years, Trinity has come to embrace the business world’s preoccupation with innovation and entrepreneurship. This embrace is one that has been well publicised. At a lunch hosted by the Swiss-Irish Business Association in the 1592 restaurant earlier this month, the Provost, Patrick Prendergast, emphasised Trinity’s record in innovation, citing the university’s accession to the prestigious League of European Research Universities (LERU) and its position as the leading European university in terms of educating entrepreneurs according to research firm Pitchbook, as evidence of a commitment to innovation. Students will already be familiar with entrepreneurship facilities such as Blackstone LaunchPad and Launchbox that have become integrated into the campus. Plans for future developments also suggest such a commitment, with the College’s business school to house an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub. Innovation, be it in the establishment of a start-up company or the publication of paradigm-shifting research, is obviously something that any university, and indeed society at large, should desire in its graduates. It is because of this that the recent surge in Trinity’s devotion to innovation is largely to be welcomed. Indeed it is perhaps all the more justifiable in a world where old certainties appear to be declining and in particular where universities find themselves constantly seeking to justify their existence in light of chronic underfunding. However, the holistic education that any university seeks to provide cannot limit itself to innovation and creativity. Innovation’s necessity does not make the maintenance of existing systems any less vital to society’s success. Indeed, it is testament to the quality and effectiveness of past innovations that not all of them instantly wither into obsolescence and demand replacement. However fast we can conjure new ideas, the reality is that the functioning of our society at any given moment will depend on some element of continuity with the past. Trinity’s graduates will be at the heart of both the development of new systems and the maintenance of existing ones and the apparent priorities of the university’s management should reflect this. While endorsement and resources of the kind that we have already observed should continue to flow in the direction of innovation, a failure to do the same for vital maintenance needlessly diminishes the perceived value of such essential tasks and the esteem, of those who execute them.
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Le blianta anuas, tá Coláiste na Tríonóide tar éis cúram is déánaí an ghnó maidir le nuálaíocht agus fiontraíocht a chuimsiú. Is dea-phoiblithe an cuimsiú seo. Ag lón de chuid an Chumainn Ghnó Heilvéiseach-Éireannach sa bhialann 1592 le linn na míosa seo, threisigh an Propast, Patrick Prendergast tuairisc oibre Choláiste na Tríonóide maidir le nuálaíocht, agus é ag déanamh tagartha do iontráil na hollscoile i gConradh Ollscoileanna Taighde na hEorpa (LERU) agus a rangú mar an ollscoil is fearr ó thaobh cothú fiontraithe de de réir an ghnólachta taighde Pitchbook, mar fhianaise de dhíograis i dtaobh nuálaíochta. Tá aithne ag mic léinn cheana féin ar na háiseanna fiontraíochta mar Blackstone LaunchPad agus Launchbox atá comhtháite sa champas. Léiríonn pleananna do fhorbairtí nua an dílseacht chéanna, agus Mol Nuálaíochta agus Fiontraíochta le tógáil i bhfoirgneamh nua do Scoil an Ghnó. Ba cheart do ollscoileanna, agus an sochaí ina iomlán, nuálaíocht, cibé acu i bhfoilsiú taighde a aistríonn paraidíme nó i hngnólacht nuathionscantaa chruthú atá sé, a lorg ina gcuid céimithe. Is de bharr in gur gá fáilte a chur roimh méadú tiomantais an Choláiste le déanaí don chuid is mó. Leoga, is dócha go bhfuil an tiomantas sin níos inchosanta fós agus sean-cinnteachtaí ag dul in éag de réir dealramh agus go háirithe nuair atá ollscoileanna ag iarraidh a mbeithsine féin a chosaint roimh fo-mhaoiniú leanúnach. Ach ní féidir leis an oideachas iomlanaíoch atá á soláthar ag ollscoile ar bith é féin a chur idir teorainneacha na nuálaíochta agus cruthaitheachta. Ní laghdaíonn riachtanas nuálaíochta tábhacht córais atá ann faoi láthair a chothabháil. Leoga is fianaise cáilíochta agus éifeachtachta na nuálaíochtaí atá thart nach dtéann siad go tobann in éag agus athsholáthar a éileamh. Áfach, chomh tapa agus is féidir linn nuálaíochtaí nau a chruthú, ní feidir a shéanadh an fhírinne go mbraithfidh cuid mhór de fheidhmiú ár sochaí ar ghné éigin de leanúnachas lena bhfuil caite. Beidh céimithe Choláiste na Tríonóide ag obair go dian dícheallach chun córais nua a fhorbairt agus cinn níos sine a chothabháil, agus ba cheart go mbeadh sé sin soiléir ó thosaíochtaí léirithe bainistíochtaí na hollscoile. Cé gur cheart go mbeadh tacú agus acmhainní den saghas a chonacthas cheana féin dírithe fós ar nuálaíocht, ach laghdaíonn ganntanas an tacaithe sin do obair chothabhála riachtanach luach na hoibre sin i súile an phobail agus meas na ndaoine a dhéanann iad.