The National Institute of Technology Management, based in University College Dublin, is to host the 23rd Annual Conference on R&D Management in the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business on September 6th and 7th, 2001. The conference, on the theme "R&D Opportunity and Technology Entrepreneurship", comes to the Republic for the first time.

The conference, initiated and supported by academic journal R&D Management, will feature academic researchers from Europe, North America and Asia.