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Irish SMEs are being encouraged to check if they qualify for research and development tax credits. Potentially eligible R&D activities include: integration of telephony and voice technologies, smartcard interfacing, integration of mobile technologies, improvement in processes and operations, and aut...

An Taoiseach Brian Cowen T.D. today (Friday 17th April 2009) announced that CorkBIC client Abtran, a leading Irish firm specialising in business process outsourcing services, is to invest €6m in research and development and create 250 graduate-level jobs by 2010. Abtran currently employs 600 pe...

VoiceSage a leading provider of interactive notification solutions to the enterprise sector has been nominated for a Net Visionary Innovation Award by The Irish Internet Association Expert Panel.

The Net Visionary Innovation Award recognises that the convergence of internet technologies and busin...

What is PDP?

Product Development Project (PDP) course is primarily aimed at students of engineering, industrial design, or marketing who are interested in product development of investment or consumer goods. The course is intended for the final stage of studies.

Studying is based...

The Red Herring 100 is a competition that is designed to find the most promising tech companies in Europe. This year Finland has a strong representation that features seven businesses in the final forty.

Making the list are:

• Canatu – is a nanotech company which speciali...

Aalto Univesity is probably the most talked about change in the university world in the past 30 years - the creation of a multidisciplinary university that targets on innovation as a goal has created a real wave of intrest internationally. Before Aalto University opens it's doors officially the work...

Nanotechnology is now heavily used in most sectors of the Finnish industry. Spinverse Ltd (Innopoli 2 Technopolis Ventures) has undertaken its third study for Tekes and has that the overall amount of Nanotech businesses has increased significantly in a four year time frame starting 2004. There were ...