Tagged: Entrepreneurship
-
10 social entrepreneurs get €700K from Arthur Guinness Fund News
23.05.2012 Ten social enterprises are set to receive financial and business support to the value of €700,000 from the 2012 Arthur Guinness Fund. The Minister for the Environment, Community... -
Optical fibre pioneer to speak in Dublin tomorrow News
21.05.2012 Australian entrepreneur and academic Dr Simon Poole will be at Dublin City University tomorrow to give a lecture about his 30-year experience in the area of photonics and... -
Young innovators take to Dublin to network, as Sandbox launches hub News
19.04.2012 We often think of the entrepreneurs behind technology start-ups, but what about the innovators who work away in the background, helping to get new ventures up and running, and... -
Irish woman co-founds social travel network site in Sydney News
15.05.2012 Irish woman Avis Mulhall is the co-founder of a new website based in Sydney for travellers to get rewards for delivering something locally during their travels. Operating around... -
New Sweat for Equity programme to get start-ups going News
11.05.2012 Techies, creatives and those with ideas for new start-ups can now apply for Swequity Exchange, a new programme that the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) in Ireland is... -
Students’ tech brings doctor-patient relationship into the cloud News
03.05.2012 The focus on young entrepreneurship seems to be becoming all the rage now, with young people all over Ireland starting to get in on the start-up vibe. -
12 tech start-ups join UCD’s 2012 entrepreneurship programme News
02.05.2012 Twelve new knowledge-intensive business ventures and 28 researchers are taking part in UCD’s 2012 entrepreneurship programme, the university said this morning. -
Bill Liao advises investors on how to look after start-ups (video) News
20.04.2012 Internet entrepreneur and investor Bill Liao gave the second keynote at Angel MeetUp in Dublin this week, where he offered five nuggets of advice to angel investors when they're...Categories: Web, The Pitch, Sustainability, Software, Sales, Marketing, Investments, Internet, Education, Economy -
Galway student scoops €10K for his smart conferencing tech News
12.04.2012 NUI Galway student Niall O’Connor has won the NUI Galway Student Enterprise Awards for his innovation called SonorPlex, which draws on cloud computing to make conferences more... -
Android app for election canvassing wins student contest News
04.04.2012 Brendan Finucane, a final-year student in business information systems at University College Cork (UCC), has taken first prize in a Dragons’ Den-style competition for his app,... -
Free tech event to get students thinking about start-ups News
02.04.2012 A free technology event called Connector is taking place this Wednesday in Dublin to get third-level students all fired up about opting for the start-up route after they... -
Irish academic awarded honorary professorship in China News
30.03.2012 Prof Diarmuid Hegarty, the president of Griffith College, has been awarded an honorary professorship from the Beijing Information, Science and Technology University in China.... -
Emerging entrepreneurs to hit Kinsale for two days of coaching News
26.03.2012 Up to 23 emerging entrepreneurs from Ireland, the US, Spain and the UK will be heading to Kinsale, Co Cork, later this week for a coaching event to fast track their ideas. -
Silicon Valley start-up moves to Ireland, plans to create 30 jobs News
21.03.2012 A new Silicon Valley start-up called iTRACglobal has chosen to set up its headquarters in Ireland by basing itself at University of Limerick’s Nexus Innovation Centre. It now... -
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... -
Tech visionary Dr Hermann Hauser joins Intune Networks' board News
13.03.2012 Serial tech entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners Dr Hermann Hauser has joined the board of Dublin-based Intune Networks as a non-executive director.Categories: Web, Science, R&D, Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Engineering, Economy, Digital Business