Tagged: Technology Transfer & News
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SFI-funded scientists to head to Silicon Valley News
30.04.2012 Two Irish researchers from DCU and TCD have won an opportunity to head to Silicon Valley and meet with business and scientific research pioneers. Science Foundation Ireland... -
‘Finland's R&D effort is a model for Ireland to copy’ – innovation minister News
26.04.2012 Ireland’s Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock, TD, has been checking out Finland’s R&D focus and its education system during a two-day visit to Helsinki. He said...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Government, Funding, Engineering, Engineer, Energy -
Nanoscience institute CRANN gets three new board members News
26.04.2012 CRANN, the Science Foundation Ireland-funded nanoscience institute based at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), has added three new members to its board, as the institute ramps up its...Categories: Research, Science, Sustainability, R&D, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Graduate, Government, Funding, Energy, EconomyTags: TCD, exporting, R&D, Technology Transfer, Ireland, Nanoscience, SFI, Nanotechnology, CRANN, Government -
TechBrew event to spur on start-ups in southeast News
24.04.2012 Technology Cluster South East will be holding its first free networking and innovation event TechBrew on Wednesday evening to promote tech start-up activity in the southeast. -
Irish software start-up gleans European innovation award News
17.04.2012 Xcelerit, a new software spin-out from the Science Foundation Ireland CTVR telecommunications research centre at Trinity College Dublin, has today won the PRACE innovation... -
Scientists pioneer device for angioplasty procedures News
11.04.2012 Biomedical engineers at University of Limerick have come up with new medical technology to treat narrowed or obstructed blood vessels. Their technology has just been licensed to... -
Scientists pioneer new encryption technology for Google Docs (video) News
04.04.2012 Researchers at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) have come up with a new encryption technology called CipherDocs to secure documents that are sent and stored in the cloud via Google... -
Uni teams Woogie Tap and Happy Swap win upStart awards News
29.03.2012 Woogie Tap from Queen’s University Belfast and Happy Swap from Trinity College Dublin are the two teams that have won the first-ever upStart entrepreneurship programme. Their...Categories: Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Science, R&D, Internet, Intellectual Property, Graduate, Financial, Energy, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Science Council urges Govt to seize €80bn innovation opportunity News
29.03.2012 The Advisory Council for Science Technology and Innovation (ACSTI) has today called on the Irish Government to come up with a strategic and focused approach to secure a... -
UCC shortlists finalists for Invention of the Year Award News
15.03.2012 University College Cork’s (UCC) Office of Technology Transfer has shortlisted the finalists for the university's Invention of the Year Award, which will take place on 27 March... -
£25K awards open for Northern Ireland’s scientific researchers News
12.03.2012 NISP Connect and Bank of Ireland UK have launched the 2012 £25K awards programme which reaches out to Northern Ireland’s research base involved in pioneering innovations around... -
Govt’s €500m scientific research budget to target key job-creating areas News
01.03.2012 The report findings from the Research Prioritisation Steering Group have just been announced at Science Gallery Dublin. The steering group, chaired by Jim O’Hara, former Intel... -
Researchers get €250k for drug treatment and telecoms studies News
23.02.2012 Three groups at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) have been awarded almost €250,000 by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) to progress their research around drug delivery... -
Ireland’s €6.5m boost for applied research News
23.02.2012 The Irish Government is to inject more than €6.5m in funding into 58 research awards, as part of Science Foundation Ireland’s Technology Innovation Development Award programme....Categories: Government, Funding, Engineer, Energy, Education, Economy, Careers and Employment, Graduate, Green, Intellectual Property, Life Sciences, R&D, Research, Science, Sustainability -
UCD spins out five new tech start-ups News
21.02.2012 Five new start-ups spun out of research programmes at University College Dublin in 2011 are aiming to take on a combined 50 new hires by the end of 2013. All five ventures are...Tags: UCD, NovaUCD, Ireland, Innovation, Technology Transfer, R&D, Jobs, Spin-out, Smart Economy, Knowledge Economy, Education -
New €21m School of Medicine opens at TCD News
15.02.2012 Trinity College Dublin’s (TCD) new School of Medicine was officially opened today by the Minister for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock. Set in the Trinity Biomedical... -
CPA calls for ‘National Entrepreneurship Strategy’ News
13.02.2012 In light of the Action Plan for Jobs 2012 revealed today by the Irish Government, the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPA) is calling for what it’s terming... -
'Science could save Europe’s economy' – Geoghegan-Quinn News
09.02.2012 Science "forms and informs our path to economic recovery”. That’s according to EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, who was in Ireland...Categories: Sustainability, R&D, Intellectual Property, Government, Education, Economy, Investments, Life Sciences, Science -
Institutes of technology to get technological university status? News
08.02.2012 Sources in the Higher Education Authority (HEA) have confirmed reports circulating that the process of setting up a technological university in the southeast, and potentially in...Categories: Science, R&D, Life Sciences, Intellectual Property, Graduate, Government, Engineer, Education, Economy, Careers and Employment -
Cloud start-up creates video tool targeted at SMEs News
08.02.2012 NovaUCD has been in the spotlight this week, as it is expecting 300 jobs to be created from start-ups based at the centre over the next two years. VideoCrisp is the latest...Categories: Business Intelligence, Business Software, CIO, Computers, Consumer Tech, Digital Media, Intellectual Property, Internet, R&D, Web 2.0