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Multiple wells can be connected to a single base station as far as 15km away.

Smart technology applied to the water supply in rural Uganda

Irish companies join a consortium to develop technology to provide safe drinking water for villages

The Dairy Processing Technology Centre at Teagasc will receive funding for a new cheese characterisation suite. ‘This will analyse cheese to see how well it slices, matures and so on,’ says programme manager Mark Whelan. Photograph: iStock

From cheese to cobots: opening new tech gateways to greatness

Enterprise Ireland’s funding programme aims to get companies engaging with R&D

“Irish companies can rise to challenges like this. They are responding to an opportunity on the one hand, but they are also motivated to find solutions to problems faced by the healthcare system and society generally”. Photograph: Getty Images

An innovative mindset is serving Ireland well as we tackle Covid-19

Irish companies could have hunkered down and waited for an upturn, but they have instead shown ingenuity and a collaborative mindset

‘Our companies must innovate if they want to export,’ says Enterprise Ireland research and innovation executive Louise Maye. Photograph: Getty Images

R&D key to Irish exporting companies remaining competitive

Enterprise Ireland executive stresses importance of innovation in face of Brexit

Eating cheese could be good for your cardio-vascular health, according to Food for Health Ireland. Photograph: Getty Images/EyeEm

Food for Health Ireland helping Irish firms develop market-leading products

Centre’s research shows eating cheese could be good for your cardio-vascular health

‘We are starting to understand much better what small companies need.’

Funding the next wave of Irish research and development

Enterprise Ireland’s Agile Innovation programme gives companies up to 50 per cent in support for development projects

Enterprise Ireland hosted an innovation arena for the sixth year at this year’s National Ploughing Championships. Photograph: Collins

Ground-breaking agritech recognised in innovation awards

Dairymaster AI milking system takes top spot in Enterprise Ireland awards

Collaborations between business and academia resulted in a 33 per cent increase in licences, option agreements and assignment agreements in 2018, research shows.

Knowledge-transfer tools point businesses in direction of research

Collaborations with academia yielded 30 spin-out companies in 2018, research shows

SoloPep founder Kevin O’Sullivan and Enterprise Ireland executive director Stephen Creaner. Photograph: Orla Murray

Spin-out companies from Irish colleges step out on public stage

UL spin-out SoloPep wins One to Watch award as 12 firms pitch to investors

GrazeBot worked with technology gateways to develop Fresh Graze, an automated moving fence system which allocates fresh grass to grazing animals.

Building technological capability by clustering

Technology gateway network gives industry access to key researchers and equipment

The Enterprise Excellence Ireland event will feature more than 32 expert keynote speakers.

Enterprise Excellence Ireland 2019: ‘Above all, it’s about improving value’

Team approach turns graffiti into a business process improvement tool

Enterprise Ireland’s programme is delivered in conjunction with the Irish Management Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (pictured) Sloan School of Management. Photograph: Getty Images/National Geographic

Enterprise Ireland scheme driving business success through innovation

Innovation 4 Growth programme has led to Irish firms generating over €150m in sales

Many companies fail to protect their inventions and other valuable intellectual property due to a lack of understanding or a mistaken belief that it’s only for large companies. Photograph: Getty Images

Intellectual property: how to protect your intangible assets

Enterprise Ireland wants to help companies keep their IP safe from thieves and copycats

Research shows firms which got RD&I support from Enterprise Ireland have 2.21 times the turnover, 2.59 times the exports and more than twice the number of full-time employees.

Building links between business and research

Innovation vouchers and partnership schemes are helping SMEs to success

The 10 technology centres span a range of sectors including pharmaceuticals, food, manufacturing, microelectronics, and composite materials, and can tap into the expertise of highly qualified researchers based in universities and institutes of technology around the country. Photograph: Getty Images

Tech centres bridging the gap between research and industry

With joint Enterprise Ireland and IDA sponsorship, companies are benefiting from R&D

SBIR Ireland manager Marguerite Bourke

A fresh tendering approach to big societal problems

Small Business Innovation Research puts problems out to tender, not solutions

Enterprise Ireland is seeking to make it easier for industry and academia to work together.

R&D and innovation key to success, Enterprise Ireland says

Firms availing of RD&I supports do better in exports, turnover and employment

Vivian Farrell, CEO of Modular Automation: ‘We are supporting multinational companies in Ireland to be more competitive and to keep jobs in Ireland’

Modular Automation makes inroads in US medtech market

Irish firm provides automation solutions for Johnson & Johnson, Stryker and Medtronic

Enterprise Ireland technology gateways programme manager Mark Whelan: “The gateways go out to industry looking for problems to solve and then find the researchers to develop the solutions.”

Technology gateway network links industry to research solutions

Network of 15 centres connects clients to researchers in institutes of technology

Enterprise Ireland’s Carol Gibbons and DCU-based SepTec co-founder Kellie Adamson: SepTec’s technology can detect sepsis-associated pathogens in whole blood within 15 minutes.

SepTec wins award for device which diagnoses sepsis speedily

Enterprise Ireland’s Big Ideas event features start-ups emerging from third-level bodies

At the end of November 2017, there were more than 1,300 research collaborations across the system in Ireland, Knowledge Transfer Ireland found.

Knowledge transfer thriving between Irish industry and entrepreneurs

Collaboration between research bodies and Irish companies stabilising, survey finds

Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund Programme aims to stimulate the creation of technology-based start-up companies and the transfer of innovations developed in higher-education institutes to industry in Ireland.

Irish third-level research fuels surge in spin-out companies

Enterprise Ireland funding key to rise of start-ups spun out from college programmes

Humanisation of pet foods helps Irish Dog Foods break into US market

Naas-based company’s supersnack bar and jerky product tapped into emerging trend

Irish exporters so successful in China direct flights start next month

Enterprise Ireland is targeting a further increase in exports by 2020 bringing total to €3bn

Dr Michael Maguire with fellow directors Dr Gillian Hendy and Dr Shirley O’Dea

Irish company developing new cancer treatments awarded €2.1m

Avectas will use EU Horizon funding on its Solupore intracellular delivery system

Orla Battersby from Enterprise Ireland say it is very difficult to have a conversation about the Irish food and beverage industry without mentioning Brexit. Photograph: Colm Mahady/Fennell Photography

Enterprise Ireland’s drive for innovation in food industry

‘Innovation is centre stage across everything. There would be no new products without it’

Axonista chief operating officer Dee Coakley: “Horizon 2020 funding has been really transformative for us.”

EU funding programme aims to help SMEs step up to next level

SME strand of Horizon 2020 has funded 81 Irish firms over past four years

Enterprise Ireland innovation development manager Declan Black: “Long-term studies have shown that at least 50 per cent of companies who do not actively innovate have ceased to trade after 10 years.”

Innovating for growth and international success

Innovation support can boost company growth fourfold, Enterprise Ireland says

Agritechnica trade fair in Germany: Irish exhibitors this year include Combilift, Malone Farm Machinery, Athlone Extrusions, Mastek, and Burnside Autocy. Photograph: Getty Images

Agritechnica 2017: Putting Irish agri-tech on the international map

World’s largest agricultural machinery exhibition a ‘Mecca for the sector’

Deirdre Glenn of Enterprise Ireland: “The indigenous medtech sector is a really good news story for Ireland.” Photograph: Colm Mahady/Fennell Photography

Medtech – A thriving industry based on innovation

Med in Ireland event a key opportunity for Irish firms in the medical technologies sector

Export Summit

Export Summit to help companies throughout Ireland grow overseas markets

One day event organised by Local Enterprise Offices, Enterprise Ireland, IDA, Údarás na Gaeltachta and WDC to be held in Galway on November 9th

Over the past 10 years, project management has become a fundamental part of an organisation. Photograph: iStock

Honouring excellence in project management

The inaugural National Project Awards will take place in November

A lot of work which might be seen as routine or an ongoing part of running a business or organisation can also be helped by good project management. Photograph: iStock

Overcoming challenges using best project-management practice

Project management has applications for meeting the challenges facing both public- and private-sector organisations

The green agenda has become part of day-to-day business. Photograph: iStock

Keeping the green agenda to the fore of business planning

Project management is playing a key role in delivering sustainable infrastructure

UpStarter

UpStarter: a tech talent search that puts you face-to-face with potential candidates

Accenture, like many others, is coming to the Oct 3rd UpStarter event with real jobs to fill, says Vicky Godolphin, managing director, Accenture Digital

The Irish space industry is growing exponentially, and expanding rapidly to take in a whole range of technologies. Photograph: iStock

Joining the space race

There is a growing Irish presence on the final frontier

Jules Fallon of the 1st Options agency Photograph: Rob O’Connor

Be One. Inspire One: ‘My glass is always half full’

Model turned agent Jules Fallon didn’t finish school but has learned everything on the job

Julie Sinnamon, chief executive of Enterprise Ireland: There is also a new process for smaller projects eligible for funding of less than €150,000

Enterprise Ireland changes to make R&D funds easier to access

‘Now they can send in an outline proposal to us, we’ll take a look at it and if we think it could be eligible for support, we’ll help them complete the full application’

Dr Alison Campbell, Director of Knowledge Transfer Ireland. Enterprise Ireland. Copyright Fennell Photography

Knowledge Transfer Ireland: ‘A hook-up service for research collaborations’

The body’s mission is to help industry find, connect, engage with and benefit from publicly funded Irish research

KPMG tax director Damien Flanagan

A good place to innovate but could do better

Red C poll for KPMG finds 88 per cent of companies saying they are engaged in it either in Ireland or overseas, an increase of eight percentage points on 2016

Enterprise Ireland research and innovation manager Gearóid Mooney: “Sometimes a company might need to hire somebody to lead the entry into a new market.”

Exporters must brace themselves for Brexit, warns Enterprise Ireland

Irish firms cannot wait until 11th hour to diversify into markets other than UK

Enterprise Ireland’s Mark Whelan: “For a lot of the companies involved, this is their first time collaborating with a higher education institute so it is a very important step for them.”

Driving R&D in Irish firms with Enterprise Ireland

Gateways in 11 Institutes of Technology have fostered industrial solutions

Enterprise Ireland research and innovation divisional manager Gearóid Mooney.

Enterprise Ireland plan puts innovation at top of growth agenda

Agency to assist client companies seeking greater international research funding

Calling Ireland's innovators We want to reward you for turning a bright idea into reality. Entry is free, so what are you waiting for?

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