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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:20:33 +0000 30 http://www.digital21.ie/img/digital-21-logo-white.png http://www.digital21.ie/rss/ 192 46 If Ireland revamps itself into a centre of innovation, the result can be some 120,000 new jobs, says a report from the Government's Innovation Taskforce to be published tomorrow. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/584/innovation-can-spark-120-000-jobs-report-says/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/584/innovation-can-spark-120-000-jobs-report-says/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Irish start-ups, it appears, are proportionately the most avid subscribers to Microsoft's BizSpark programme and according to the global head of BizSpark, Cliff Reeves, the country is putting in place an ecosystem for start-ups that Silicon Valley would be proud of. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/585/bizspark-accelerating-start-ups-access-to-global-market/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/585/bizspark-accelerating-start-ups-access-to-global-market/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 There is need for indigenous business growth. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/570/jim-ohara-general-manager-intel-ireland/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/570/jim-ohara-general-manager-intel-ireland/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 it's time to build Irish multinationals. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/571/martin-murphy-managing-director-hp-ireland/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/571/martin-murphy-managing-director-hp-ireland/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Support future business leaders. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/572/maurice-mortell-chief-executive-data-electronics/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/572/maurice-mortell-chief-executive-data-electronics/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 There's a large appetite for entrepreneurship. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/573/paul-rellis-managing-director-microsoft-ireland/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/573/paul-rellis-managing-director-microsoft-ireland/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Global market for Irish business. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/574/charles-butterworth-chief-executive-vodafone-ireland/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/574/charles-butterworth-chief-executive-vodafone-ireland/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Internet is key for new business. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/575/kim-majerus-managing-director-cisco-ireland/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/575/kim-majerus-managing-director-cisco-ireland/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The Irish are intuitively entrepreneurial. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/576/chris-clark-chief-executive-bt-ireland/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/576/chris-clark-chief-executive-bt-ireland/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 We have to stop punishing failure. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/577/mark-kellett-chief-executive-magnet-networks/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/577/mark-kellett-chief-executive-magnet-networks/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Entrepreneurialism starts in schools. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/578/graham-byrne-head-of-ireland-and-scotland-businesses-promethean/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/578/graham-byrne-head-of-ireland-and-scotland-businesses-promethean/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Successful firms can help start-ups. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/579/dermot-oconnell-general-manager-dell-ireland/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/579/dermot-oconnell-general-manager-dell-ireland/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Minister for Trade and Commerce Billy Kelleher TD has announced that Enterprise Ireland supported the establishment of 73 new high-potential start-up companies (HPSUs) in 2009. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/583/seventy-three-high-potential-start-ups-supported-in-2009/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/583/seventy-three-high-potential-start-ups-supported-in-2009/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Citizens need to prepare for the future jobs market and engagement in society through enhanced web skills, the European Commission said today. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/580/citizens-need-web-skills-for-future-jobs/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/580/citizens-need-web-skills-for-future-jobs/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The National Digital Research Centre's (NDRC) first ever LaunchPad programme supporting emerging start-ups is running until April, with plans for a second one in June. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/582/ndcrs-launchpad-programme-under-way/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/582/ndcrs-launchpad-programme-under-way/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The new head of the Irish Internet Association says the imperative is to bring more firms online. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/568/irish-businesses-need-to-realise-the-digital-economy-is-the-real-economy/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/568/irish-businesses-need-to-realise-the-digital-economy-is-the-real-economy/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Communications Minister Eamon Ryan said that next-generation telecoms infrastructure and alternative new energy solutions will help provide the economic stimulus the Irish economy needs in the absence of financial levers. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/567/broadband-infrastructure-investment-crucial-ryan/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/567/broadband-infrastructure-investment-crucial-ryan/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Ireland needs to find a way to emulate the success of locations like Silicon Valley and can begin by fixing the things that are broken and using digital technologies to transform the economy, said the chairman of the advisory board of UCD Smurfit Business School Paul Haran this morning. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/569/digital-transformation-will-fix-the-irish-economy/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/569/digital-transformation-will-fix-the-irish-economy/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Dylan Collins, the young entrepreneur who by the age of 30 had sold three successful technology firms, says Ireland needs to focus more on generating a larger number of internet start-ups. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/581/internet-start-ups-generate-cheap-fast-return-collins/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/581/internet-start-ups-generate-cheap-fast-return-collins/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 State development agency IDA Ireland has unveiled a new blueprint called 'Horizon 2020' aimed at creating 105,000 new jobs by 2014, the lynchpin of which will be social and economic regeneration of cities, towns and regions. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/566/ida-strategic-plan-to-create-105-000-new-jobs-by-2014/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/566/ida-strategic-plan-to-create-105-000-new-jobs-by-2014/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 "Forget the Government, let's go to Google," an exasperated Fine Gael Councillor Eoghan Murphy will tell fellow Dublin city managers on Monday with a view to promoting Dublin as a trial location for state-of-the-art fibre broadband. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/565/lets-ask-google-to-solve-irelands-broadband-woes/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/565/lets-ask-google-to-solve-irelands-broadband-woes/ Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 There is something about the way Microsoft Ireland managing director Paul Rellis describes Ireland's way out of the economic morass that suggests while things aren't perfect, things aren't all bad either. His tone indicates urgency but also a kind of exasperation that, as a country, we need to select areas we're good at and, fundamentally, we need to start believing in ourselves. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/563/entrepreneurial-nation-needs-to-start-in-schools-microsoft-md/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/563/entrepreneurial-nation-needs-to-start-in-schools-microsoft-md/ Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Chip giant Intel is to drive a US$3.5-billion venture capital initiative to grow US industries in a move that will also increase jobs that will be available to college graduates. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/561/intel-leads-us-3-5bn-venture-and-graduate-push-in-us/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/561/intel-leads-us-3-5bn-venture-and-graduate-push-in-us/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 'A good education is a wonderful thing, but a good education without a job is hollow.' http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/562/either-curse-the-darkness-or-light-a-candle/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/562/either-curse-the-darkness-or-light-a-candle/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 It is essential that Ireland prioritises the need for people to train themselves with e-skills which will be needed in order for Ireland to develop as a smart economy, the CEO of Fastrack to IT (FIT) has said. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/564/e-skills-are-vital-to-both-employed-and-unemployed/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/564/e-skills-are-vital-to-both-employed-and-unemployed/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Ireland's research bodies must learn to emulate the example of the Apple iPhone - an innovative product packaged with value-added services - if they are to derive value from their investment in research. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/560/ireland-must-learn-to-commercialise-its-research/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/560/ireland-must-learn-to-commercialise-its-research/ Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 If you ask BT chief executive Chris Clark about Ireland's broadband woes - and believe me, he knows - he actually sounds upbeat. There are reasons to be cheerful, he says: "I don't think we should underestimate the progress that has been made in the last few years." http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/555/ireland-is-progressing-toward-digital-economy-bt-chief-executive/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/555/ireland-is-progressing-toward-digital-economy-bt-chief-executive/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Tech giants HP and Cisco have backed a global initiative with a €200,000 prize fund to encourage innovative proposals that can help foster economic renewal in Ireland. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/556/hp-and-cisco-in-irish-president-backed-initiative-to-stimulate-economy/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/556/hp-and-cisco-in-irish-president-backed-initiative-to-stimulate-economy/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The head of the Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA) has said that despite the economic challenges facing the country, his members believe Irish software companies still make solid, worthwhile investments. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/557/venture-capital-investors-see-potential-in-irish-software-sector/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/557/venture-capital-investors-see-potential-in-irish-software-sector/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The green economy should not be viewed as a short-term answer to Ireland's economic problems - failures will happen and we need to show greater risk tolerance for start-ups. http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/558/green-deal-stimulus-plan-will-stave-off-green-tech-failures/ http://www.digital21.ie/news/item/558/green-deal-stimulus-plan-will-stave-off-green-tech-failures/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000