“FDI companies are able to get access to better grants and better commercial opportunities via the IDA than we’re able to get from Enterprise Ireland.”
Bobby Healy is on a mission to build a worldwide drone delivery service. In an interview with the economist Stephen Kinsella, the founder of Manna outlines the technological and societal barriers that he is aiming to overcome, and how the business has the capacity to make structural changes to the economy. Healy and Kinsella also we talk about the rise and rise of AI as a societal technology, what progress means, Ireland’s dual economy, and how to develop a new industrial policy for the country. They also examine likely interest rates hikes and what they mean for the flow of capital to firms breaking new ground.
