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Batt O’Keeffe, TD, Minister for Enterprise Trade and Innovation on July 26th officially opened the new headquarters of SolarPrint in Dublin and announced the creation of 80 new jobs by the Irish energy technology company. Pictured at the announcement were: Maja Sourdaine, Materials & Printing Engineer, SolarPrint and the minister.
The Government today announced
an additional €37m in funding for Irish academic research which
it said will facilitate the creation of jobs in Ireland’s
so-called “smart economy”.
The €37m investment, will be
spread over six years and takes the funding of the Government’s
competence centres programme to €90m over that period. Minister
for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe, said the
€37m six-year investment boost will underpin the development of
an environment that allows academics and business people to work
together in producing market-friendly products that meet
consumer demand and create jobs. At the start of this year, five
competence centres were added to the initial pilot centre, Food
for Health.
These are the Centre in Nanotechnology (Tyndall Institute, UCC);
Centre in Composite Materials (UL); Centre on IT Innovation (NUIM);
Centre in-Bioenergy (NUIG); and Centre in Microelectronics
(Tyndall Institute, UCC).
Each centre will receive up to €5
million over five years.
O’Keeffe said Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland are working to
develop a number of other centres in the pipeline.
Collaborative company-led
research will get under way in the research centres which will
rise from six this year to 15 in 2016.
