This brought together its highly rated music and electrical engineering departments. Digital technologies developed provided soundtracks to Hollywood blockbusters such as Jurassic Park . The future is likely to see more emphasis on calculated risk-taking. As a venture capitalist you might argue that that it not necessarily a good thing. Arguably the biggest challenge facing Queen's is its position relative to the increasing number of alliances being formed by universities across borders.
Subject areas makes sense.
Prof Bain sees no value added in the multiple alliances currently on offer. But he is in talks to form an alliance with Trinity, Dublin, and Boston University, in the US, to form a grouping with strong cultural ties. He is looking forward to student exchanges and degrees being taken at two or three locations with work credited to the final degree. We could see it operating on the basis of staff, students, and enterprise - at least those three activities. The Museum of Ulster, in the same leafy suburb as the university, is currently showing an exhibition on enduring icons in Irish life.