Tagged: OECD & News
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#OI2Dublin - Innovation about execution, not just invention, says EIT’s Alexander von Gabain News
20.05.2013 As the innovation elite began to converge on Dublin for the Open Innovation 2.0 conference today and tomorrow, Ann O’Dea caught up with one of the visitors, Alexander Von...Tags: Start-ups, Biotechnology, US, Europe, OECD, Open Innovation 2.0, Entrepreneurship, KPMG, Venture Capital -
Internet is the motor engine of global growth in the 21st century - OECD News
04.10.2012 The top 250 ICT firms by revenue boosted employment by 4pc in 2010 and 6pc in 2011, with hiring growing the fastest among internet firms which grew employment by 29pc, according... -
Ireland ranks below OECD average for fixed broadband penetration News
18.07.2012 Fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions reached 314m in the OECD area at the end of 2011, with year-on-year subscriptions rising by 4.1pc, but Ireland is lagging behind the... -
Howlin to spin doctors: ‘social media may not be suited to public service’ News
26.04.2012 Ireland’s Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin, TD, appears uneasy at the prospect of social media being used by the public service and said today... -
As wireless booms, OECD warns of slowdown in fixed broadband News
01.12.2011 Demand from new wireless broadband subscribers is driving growth in high-speed internet in OECD countries but the latest data shows a slowdown in fixed subscriptions in the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Economy, eCommerce, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Education reform is urgent and inevitable News
02.10.2011 The furore surrounding declining maths teaching standards means reform is inevitable. The teachers want it; and the Minister for Education wants it. So what’s holding us back? -
Education Minister Quinn promises ‘radical education reform’ News
14.09.2011 Ireland's Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has called for radical reform of the education system with a new structure that moves away from the outmoded by-rote system to one that... -
Numbers still don’t add up for Leaving Cert maths and sciences News
17.08.2011 It’s a glass half-full, half-empty kind of picture. On the one hand, we can rejoice that the numbers of Irish students achieving A, B and C grades in high-level maths is at its... -
Advances in third-level education in Ireland News
05.08.2011 At the IRCHSS & IRCSET Postdoctoral Symposium at the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin in July, almost 150 researchers gathered to share ideas and explore new ways of...Categories: Careers and Employment, Education, Government, Investments, Research, Science, Upskilling -
Valuing intellectual capital News
07.07.2011 Enabling innovative thinking is the raw material of prosperity, says LAURA O’BRIEN, who saw for herself the fruit of state investment in the country’s PhD population. -
Access to computers in Irish schools below OECD average News
28.06.2011 The percentage of students using a computer in Irish schools (62.9pc) is significantly below the OECD average (74.2pc), a new OECD PISA report into online digital literacy has...Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Digital 21, Computers, Communications -
Broadband FAIL – fibre penetration in Ireland at only 1pc News
24.06.2011 Despite fixed line broadband jumping by 8pc by the end of last year, Ireland is trailing global leaders who have deployed sophisticated fibre-optic networks, according to the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Networks, Networking & Telecoms, Mobility, Mobile, Government, Economy, eCommerce, Communications -
International gathering in Dublin to look at opportunities in the ‘Green Economy’ News
30.05.2011 More than 200 of Ireland’s business leaders and policy makers will gather tomorrow morning at the Four Seasons Hotel in Dublin for the 2nd annual Business & Leadership briefing... -
Taoiseach says 12.5pc tax will remain, promises education reform News
26.05.2011 Ireland will not budge on its 12.5pc corporate tax rate, Ireland’s Taoiseach Enda Kenny promised today. He said to change it would represent a massive breach of trust to investors.Tags: Enda Kenny, Foreign Direct Investment, Investment, Innovation, OECD, PISA, Maths, Science, Intel -
Governments must move to the green economy – OECD News
25.05.2011 The OECD has today launched its Green Growth Strategy and says governments must look to the green economy to seize opportunities and new sources of growth and jobs.Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Intellectual Property, Green Computing, Government, Engineering, Energy, Economy, Green Tech -
Concern over major ICT spending cuts in Irish schools News
16.12.2010 Key figures in Ireland’s ICT sector have expressed concern over major cuts in State ICT spending in the recent Budget - down from €63m in 2010 to €1.5m projected for 2011. -
Alarm at Ireland's falling maths performance in PISA study News
07.12.2010 PISA, the OECD group responsible for measuring maths and literacy performance by students worldwide, has found Ireland significantly below the OECD average for maths, causing...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Science, Investments, Government, Education, Careers and Employment -
Ireland ranks above OECD average for broadband News
06.12.2010 The latest statistics from the OECD on broadband penetration again show Ireland at the bottom of the list in terms of wired access but just about above average. Globally, there... -
The digital business week News
06.12.2010 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week. -
Foreign direct investment shows green shoots, OECD says News
02.12.2010 While international investment remained flat well into the fourth quarter of 2010, there are signs of improvement over two years of steep declines in 2008 and 2009. In Ireland,...Categories: Recruitment, R&D, Mergers & Acquisitions, Jobs, Investments, Intellectual Property, Economy, Digital 21, Development