Measuring the Public Value of Arts and Humanities Research, 25th October
The conference will showcase collaborative research between the Dublin Institute of Technology’s Higher Education Policy Research Unit, the University of Twente’s Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, and the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jordi Molas Gallert, Professor at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research.
Making Great Working Places in Dublin, 24th October
A panel discussion on how can Dublin create competitive working places, how can commercial developments give more to the city and how do cities accommodate the range of businesses which make up a healthy business ecology will take place in the Wood Quay Venue on Wednesday 24th October at 2.30p.m. Free, all are welcome but pre-booking required. Please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you wish to attend.
Collaborate to Innovate
This seminar In the Wood Quay Venue on 23rd October will focus on the benefits and issues for companies in collaborating with third level research institutes and will help companies learn how to tap into 3rd level research centres to grow your business.
The Connect Education Conference
The Connect Education Conference takes place on October 11th in the Dublin West Education Centre with the theme “The Future’s not what it used to be”.
The People’s Rainforest in Dublin
A rainforest will be built by Sky TV in The Point Village Dublin. It will be open to members of the public and school groups to experience the rainforest for themselves from Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th September. As well as building the rainforest Sky TV will also broadcast on Tuesday 25th September The People’s Rainforest program.
Third Application Phase of DCU Propeller Venture Accelerator Programme Now Open
The Ryan Academy at Dublin City University is inviting applications for the second round of the business incubation programme for tech start-ups, including €30,000 seed funding and the opportunity to pitch to investors. The Propeller Venture Accelerator, based at the Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship at Dublin City University, was established in 2010 using the techstars model, with €1 million from Irelandia Investments.
Dublin BIC hopes to bring more Facebook Hackathons to Ireland
Having chalked Ireland’s first Facebook Hackathon up as a success, Dublin Business Innovation Centre (Dublin BIC) hopes to make these events a regular occurrence, offering computer programmers the chance to collaborate on projects alongside Facebook engineers.
Ireland one of the top ten innovators in the world
It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that most Latin American countries ranked towards the bottom of a new United Nations index of innovation. What’s surprising — and depressing — is that, with a few exceptions, they are not even making the list’s sub-group of “innovation learners.”
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