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Irish Times managing director Liam Kavanagh; Edmond O'Reilly from Trustwater, the overall Innovation award winner; and Thomas Hunter McGowan, CEO, Inter Trade Ireland, at the award ceremony on Friday night. Trustwater lands top innovation award

Tipperary bottling technology business delivers major increases in productivity

Google encourages its engineers to dedicate 20 per cent of their work time to side projects, an initiative which gave rise to Google Earth Garage open to Microsoft employees to park and share ideas

The top technology companies are continuously trying to stay ahead of the game

Innovation Talk: Sacrificing ease of use on the altar of design

Good design doesn’t just involve attractive colour schemes and judicious font choices, it’s also about rigorous attention to detail and exceptional usability

Siobhan and Paul Lawless of Foods of Athenry New Innovator: Foods of Athenry

Dan Stevenson: "You won't see us spending a lot of money on advertising - it's more about communicating at grassroots level." Sony puts its customers in the frame

Challenge for electronics giant is to communicate the quality of its products to customers, according to senior executive Dan Stevenson

Jonathan Cloonan created Dr You, a TV show in which 25 per cent of the content suggested people should use a particular pharmaceutical brand Ad man has just the prescription for ailing industry: big sponsorship

Jonathan Cloonan has a way of coming up with ideas that has helped him get ahead in advertising fast

Support for research is available – why not make use of it?

Prof Colin Mayer says that corporations such as the BBC have significant features such as clearly defined values, long-term ownership structures and strong boards Corporations flawed to the core

Discredited model of operation is responsible for financial crisis and lack of trust in business, says author of new book

New innovator

Chimney Safe

An advertisement for Clarks from a bygone era 190 years of keeping it in the family

Shoemaker Clarks has reinvented itself, fought off take over bids and skirted bankruptcy while remaining a family-owned business

Bright ideas to bring IP into the digital age

Prof Ian Hargreaves’ influential report into the UK’s intellectual property (IP) system has generated much discussion globally

Mark Ennis of Invest NI: “What is particularly pleasing is that within these results is a strong set of achievements by local businesses.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne Invest NI created 7,400 jobs since 2012

Posts created in this financial year expected to deliver £111m salary boost to economy

European commissioner for research, innovation and science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn: “Events are moving so quickly that there is less and less time to dig deep, to reflect and weigh options. That is why social sciences and humanities research is more essential than ever.” Photograph: Paul O’Driscoll Social sciences are a compass in demanding times

Opinion: While hard facts are vital to knowledge, the humanities help us make sense of it all

Bedside device combines access to medical information with entertainment options

Point-of-care terminal not only gives doctors and patients access to medical records but allows patients watch video-on-demand

Ger O'Sullivan of Flip IQ New innovator

Flip IQ

Connected world puts onus on the individual

Conpanies will do less for you. Unions can do less for you. There will be fewer limits, but also fewer guarantees. Your specific contribution will define your specific benefits

More power to your batteries

Researchers in Ireland are looking at early-stage innovations that could keep mobile electronic devices going for longer

Brad Feld: "The long-term highest priority is to have a good life, with room for both love and work" Taking time to get the balance of work, rest and play right

A new business can be all consuming with no time for anything else, but it doesn’t have to be like that

If nothing is changed, then nothing will be ventured

The recent drop in activity in the sector illustrates that for successful venture capital activity, the key factor is not the quantity of venture capital available but the returns generated

Opinion & Analysis

“You’re no better than a bloody civil servant,” a woman shouted at chairman Alan Cook, above, who by this point was starting to fray around the edges. Photograph: Barry Cronin Booing, slow hand-claps, shouts of fury – Permanent TSB’s Cook feels the heat
Apple chief executive Tim Cook, centre, before a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting this week. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters Cantillon: Bitten Apple may represent tax tipping point
People walk past the Apple logo near an Apple Store at a shopping area in central Beijing. Photograph: Petar Kujundzic/Reuters Scrutiny of Ireland begins to bite in Apple tax inquiry

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