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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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