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  • Capitalise on your inventions, Europe, EU commissioner says

    19.03.2010 Europe has to improve upon capitalising on its inventions, said Máire Geoghegan Quinn, the European Union's Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science. More »

  • Disney alliance with UCD to revolutionise sports coverage

    19.03.2010 Entertainment giant Disney has joined forces with a UCD research centre to examine how the use of multiple cameras can enhance the high-end broadcast of major sports events. More »

  • Belfast software firm scores cosmetic surgery breakthrough

    18.03.2010 Axis Three – a Belfast-based pioneer of computerised tools for the global cosmetic surgery industry – is gearing up to apply its world-beating 3D simulation technology to the facial reconstructive surgery market. More »

  • Tyndall brings chip breakthrough to home of silicon

    16.03.2010 It’s fitting that the next major breakthrough in semiconductor research that could extend the life of Moore’s Law is being brought on a whistlestop tour of the largest chip manufacturers on the planet in the very place the silicon chip was born. More »

  • Govt to act on Innovation Taskforce report - Taoiseach

    16.03.2010 The Irish Government will be acting on the recommendations of the Innovation Taskforce, Taoiseach Brian Cowen confirmed while launching the Enterprise Ireland Trade Mission in Silicon Valley yesterday. More »

  • 215,000 new jobs by 2020 if Ireland becomes a Global Innovation Hub

    11.03.2010 Nationwide 1Gbps broadband, the creation of a ‘European Accelerator' to attract the world’s most innovative start-ups and a sea change in structures and attitudes to start-ups were among the recommendations of the Innovation Taskforce revealed today. More »

  • Ten new spinouts emerge from Trinity College

    10.03.2010 Ten new spin-out firms have emerged out of research commercialised at Trinity College in the areas of ICT, bioscience and physical science. More »

  • Stimulus trek begins with €56m investment in 180 companies

    10.03.2010 Is this the beginning of the long-awaited stimulus plan from Government? Tanaiste and Enterprise Minister Mary Coughlan TD is to invest €56m in 180 companies and nine transformational competence centres to bring about the promised smart economy. More »

  • BT Science & Tech future business leaders identified

    09.03.2010 Seven lucky students have been awarded third-level summer placements with NUI Galway, UL and UCD as part of the BT Business of Science & Technology Programme 2010. More »

  • Nominations for European Inventor Award 2010 announced

    08.03.2010 From the Wii console to the conservation of drinking water to ‘green’ plastic and the ability to access the internet straight from a wall socket, the nominees for the European Inventor Award 2010 have been announced today. More »

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