“The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is staging a demonstration to highlight what it describes as the inaction of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’ Keeffe, in tackling high levels of graduate unemployment …” (more)
[Clare Herald, 16 August]
“Two groups of scientists at Tyndall National Institute in Cork will each receive up to €5m over the next five years for research that could yield new products for the electronics and medical devices industries, according to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe …” (more)
[Carmel Doyle, Silicon Republic, 13 August]
“Minister for Enterprise, Batt O’Keeffe has urged the Union of Students of Ireland (USI) to ‘get behind decisive Government efforts to protect and create jobs’ …” (more)
[CorkPolitics.ie, 4 August]
“Apprentices in Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) will be able to work in a single building from next September following the Government’s funding go-ahead for the project, according to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe TD …” (more)
[CorkPolitics.ie, 30 July]
“Today saw the launch of a €7m fund designed to help academics turn research into jobs by bringing new products and services to market …” (more)
[Deirdre Nolan, Silicon Republic, 29 July]
“Today, the Government announced the largest investment in research in the State’s history with €359m going into PRTLI Cycle 5. The move will make Ireland Europe’s innovation hub, said Enterprise Minister Batt O’Keeffe …” (more)
[John Kennedy, Silicon Republic, 16 July]
“Batt O’Keeffe is 100 days into his brief as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation as he sits down to be interviewed by The Irish Times . ‘We’ve announced an average of 26 jobs per day in those 100 days’, he says proudly …” (more)
[Irish Times, 9 July]
“A week-long intensive problem-solving challenge involving industry and academic collaboration has begun at University of Limerick (UL). The 75th European Study Group with Industry, organised by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)-funded Mathematics Application Consortium for Science and Industry (MACSI), was formally opened by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe …” (more)
[Silicon Republic, 2 July]
“The inaugural meeting of the Innovation Taskforce Implementation Group was held this evening, from 5pm-6.30pm, at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, with Minister O’Keefe in the chair, and also attended by Minister of State Lenihan …” (more)
[Chrisjhorn's Blog, 1 June]
“Ireland’s intellectual property regime is to be overhauled under plans to be revealed today [Tuesday] at the first meeting of a group set up to drive the recommendations of the Innovation Taskforce, according to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe …” (more)
[DETI, 1 June]
“The new residence for the president of the University of Limerick on campus cost €2.3m, a report to the Minister for Education has confirmed. Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe had requested a report on the development and the sources of its funding, after construction began last year …” (more)
[Limerick Leader, 31 May]
“The allocation of more than €300 million in research funding for Irish universities and college is being held up by a bitter ‘turf war’ involving Government departments and State agencies. The Department of Education and the Higher Education Authority (HEA) have expressed unease about new arrangements in which they will lose control of the 10-year-old Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI) …” (more)
[Seán Flynn, Irish Times, 28 May]
“Subject: Promoting Irish Software Innovation Dear Minister O’Keefe, In reply to your proposal that academic research teams be required to partner with industry, while I welcome the proposal in principle, I fear that you may have overlooked that unless this partnering is also enforced under an open source license, this could lead to 100% proprietary software development in Ireland …” (more)
[Irish Dev, 27 May]
“The suggestion from Batt O’Keeffe TD that industry partnerships should be made mandatory for all stages of third-level research has been met with some opposition, with one software industry professional warning that it could kill open source by leading to 100pc proprietary software development here in Ireland …” (more)
[Marie Boran, Silicon Republic, 27 May]
“Academic researchers should be required to partner with industry at all stages of their work so that ‘smart’ jobs can be created, asserted Batt O’Keeffe TD …” (more)
[Marie Boran, Silicon Republic, 26 May]
“The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation Batt O’Keeffe TD will today meet Ireland’s EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn as part of a week-long series of engagements in Brussels and Paris …” (more)
[Silicon Republic, 25 May]
“Cutting edge research projects are to get an €8.5 million funding boost, creating jobs and training places for 105 researchers and contributing to the ‘smart’ economy …” (more)
[Ciara O'Brien, Irish Times, 18 May]
“Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe today announced €8.5 million for 47 cutting-edge research projects which will create new jobs for the so-called smart economy …” (more)
[CorkPolitics.ie, 17 May]
“More than €25 million was today pledged to fund 27 research projects which the Government claims will help create new jobs in the so-called smart economy. Some 139 third-level researchers benefiting from the money are working on schemes focusing on energy, environmental protection, health, agriculture and telecommunications …” (more)
[Irish Times, 28 April]
“… The Government today announced that United Technologies Corporation is to establish a unique energy and security research centre in Ireland creating 37 new jobs over the next four years through a €15 million investment. The investment is supported by the Irish Government through IDA Ireland …” (more)
[Fianna Fail, 26 April]
