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Full coverage: Innovation

How to save an ageing society? Let the robots into the room

If Ireland wants to get over the looming transition to an older population, it should look at how it embraces automation technologies such as robotics and AI.

Jonathan Ruane
25th Oct, 2022 - 6 min read

Mediocrity at scale and the Irish education system: An essay by Sinead O’Sullivan

Creating people who can build things starts and ends with education. Yet, our system is designed to take the one-in-a-million extraordinary people and make them mediocre before they’ve even had a chance to realise the scale of their potential.

Sinead O'Sullivan
2nd Aug, 2022 - 11 min read

From Mariana Mazzucato to education, European innovation is in crisis: An essay by Sinead O’Sullivan

Most of Europe is not creating the right people who can build things. Meanwhile, the European government funding ecosystem is broken and following the wrong strategy. So, let’s not continue to kid ourselves that everything is okay.

Sinead O'Sullivan
18th Jul, 2022 - 12 min read

Lasers, 3D printing, and an electric car: The ninth decade of an Irish inventor

Dublin-born billionaire engineer David McMurtry is working with the next generation – including an Irishwoman – on the future of all these things. In exclusive interviews, he and the executives leading Renishaw's latest projects talk past, present and future.

John Reynolds
30th Jun, 2022 - 15 min read

We keep talking about the knowledge economy. So, why are we spending so little on R&D?

Irish companies spend less than other OECD countries on research and development. And worryingly for the indigenous economy, the data shows that that the vast majority of R&D expenditure is from foreign-owned multinationals.

Ian Kehoe
1st Jun, 2022 - 4 min read

Escaping the dead hand of the past: Stephen Kinsella meets Bobby Healy

Bobby Healy has been thinking a great deal about the future: What it looks like, how we get there and how it is made. In an interview with Stephen Kinsella, the Manna founder outlines his views and talks about innovation, funding and the issues facing indigenous business.

Stephen Kinsella
3rd Feb, 2022 - 35 min read

“Great People Versus Great Fools” – What can Paul O’Donovan, Scott Kelly and Taylor Swift teach us about investing in start-ups?

Only 0.0000001% of people are Great People, and when you find that Great Person, they are nearly 100% likely to achieve greatness. To figure out who they are, you need to understand the traits of a rower, a singer and an astronaut.

Sinead O'Sullivan
17th Aug, 2021 - 7 min read

In defence of supermarket queues: The economics of efficiency and why it is an eternal race to the bottom

Our private equity-backed world has created a modern two-class system: those who interact with the real world, and those who do not, with the latter being seen, strangely, as a privilege.

Sinead O'Sullivan
25th May, 2021 - 6 min read

Beyond the Horizon: How Irish firms fared in Europe’s flagship R&D funding programme

The Horizon 2020 programme is ending, with Irish companies receiving over €1 billion. But the EU’s innovation agenda is only getting more intense in the next decade.

Jonathan Keane
19th Jan, 2021 - 4 min read

Enterprise Ireland has bet much of the farm on food. It may be time to diversify the menu

For the first time in many years, companies supported by Enterprise Ireland lost more jobs than they created in 2020. Beyond the pandemic effect, it is time for the state agency to reassess its priorities away from traditional food production and into riskier innovation areas – as well as the domestic economy.

Ian Kehoe
12th Jan, 2021 - 4 min read
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