“Over on the Inside Agenda Blog, there is an excellent piece by Emmett Macfarlane, a professor at the University of Waterloo. In it, he explains that there is a need for universities to be innovative …” (more)
[Academic Matters, 16 April]
“Europe can become the leader of the ‘new industrial revolution’, a senior European Commission official will tell a conference in Dublin today …” (more)
[Dan O'Brien, Irish Times, 7 March]
“The Government today announced the investment of €300m in what it termed 7 ‘world class’ research centres to boost what we view as a failed policy. What George Orwell described as ‘euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness’ can be found in the common use of the term ‘world-class’ in Ireland …” (more)
[Michael Hennigan, Finfacts, 25 February]
“We live in a rapidly changing world. That is self-evident. But if Europe does not adapt to this ever-evolving global landscape, we are going to lose our competitiveness. The naked reality is that emerging countries such as India, China and Brazil are innovating across a whole range of new and exciting products, services and processes …” (more)
[Independent, 18 February]
“Minister for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock TD today chaired the first meeting of the Competitiveness Council during Ireland’s EU presidency …” (more)
[Karina Corbett, Business and Leadership, 18 February]
“So with all the government fuss about the innovation island and the innovation economy, with all the (lip service?) paid to empowering entrepreneurship and with the push to make Irish universities into powerhouses of entrepreneurial enablement, nobody seems to have looked at the question: are we doing any research in the area …” (more)
[Brian M Lucey, 16 February]
“The year has barely begun, but we’re being urged on all sides to rethink higher education, to look into the far distant – and therefore largely unknowable – future and to prepare ourselves for dramatic change. An urge to crawl under the blankets and claim to be suffering from a nasty bout of ‘flu seizes me …” (more)
[Alan Ryan, Times Higher Education, 14 February]
“There has been an interesting if pessimistic international discussion under way over the past few months about whether innovation – and therefore continued economic growth – has run aground …” (more)
[Dick Ahlstrom, Irish Times, 21 January]
“For regular readers of my blog you will be aware of my thoughts on what an Irish National Innovation System might look like (and how it can leverage existing public investment in our national network of Institute of Technology incubation centres). I put my thoughts together in my recent submission …” (more)
[Eoin Costello, 3 January]
“2013 is close at hand and it’s hardly a ‘man bites dog’ story that the 2006 flagship enterprise policy target to be recognised as a ‘world class knowledge economy’ by next year has been already buried …” (more)
[Michael Hennigan, Finfacts, 20 December]
“Last year, leading lights in for-profit and nonprofit higher education convened in Washington for a conference on private-sector innovation in the industry. The national conversation about dysfunction and disruption in higher education was just heating up …” (more)
[Scott Carlson and Goldie Blumenstyk, Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 December]
“I am delighted that Kobo, a global leader in ‘eReading’ is to establish a software development centre in Dublin. This will lead to the expected creation of over 30 highly skilled jobs …” (more)
[Deirdre Clune, 12 December]
“The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, and the Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock TD, today (Wednesday) announced the publication of the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012, following agreement by Government …” (more)
[Science Foundation Ireland, 12 December]
“Richard Bruton, minister for jobs, enterprise and innovation and Seán Sherlock, minister of state for research and innovation, today announced the publication of the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012, following agreement by Government …” (more)
[Michael Hennigan, Finfacts Ireland, 12 December]
“The Government is causing serious and possibly irreparable damage to Ireland’s national capacity to conduct scientific research. Its persistent demand that any State investment in science must deliver a return on investment has placed it on a path that could erode the undoubted reputational and qualitative gains in science that have been made here over more than a decade …” (more)
[Dick Ahlstrom, Irish Times, 10 December]
“This is an significantly extended version of an OpEd published by myself and Charles Larkin (whose name appears missing) in the Irish Times. The Universities (Amendment) Bill 2012 is a shutting of the stable door after the horse has bolted and the stable sold off to a developer …” (more)
[Brian M Lucey, 20 November]
“The Bill is a knee-jerk reaction by regulators who have failed to keep time with the pace of change in modern tertiary education, with changing educational markets or with the balance of accountability and flexibility needed to confront national and international challenges …” (more)
[Brian Lucey, Irish Times, 20 November]
“The University of Limerick today (9th November 2012), hosted the Irish Times Innovation Roadshow at the Kemmy Business School. Entrepreneurs, business leaders, researchers took part in the event included featured leading national and international innovators …” (more)
[University of Limerick, YouTube, 12 November]
“The University of Limerick’s highly innovative Nexus Innovation Centre has exceeded all targets and expectations for its first year in operation. The centre is already supporting 76 high-value jobs in 32 newly-established companies …” (more)
[Irish Times, 22 October]
“Abstract: Science spending has boosted some Irish science competence statistics but enterprise statistics suggest that the official Irish goal to become a world class knowledge economy by 2013, is a failure …” (more)
[Michael Hennigan, Finfacts, 15 October]
