Catching up with SFI in the news
After a few very busy weeks, and little or no blogging, I had an opportunity to catch up on some recent articles related to SFI in the news over the weekend. So, without further ado, and in no particular order, here are a few of the stories that caught my attention:
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Government is considering a bill to extend SFI’s remit to include applied research (via Silicon Republic).
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A further investment by SFI into Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, is announced (via Silicon Republic)
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Lero: Software needs to Change (via New Tech Post)
Teaching languages in schools, and the contribution made by CNGL (via Independent.ie)
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Former SFI scientist of the year, Prof. Jean Pierre Colinge wins the 2012 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award (via TechCentral.ie)
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Aiming to take ireland higher up the curve – a profile of the new SFI Director General, Prof. Mark Ferguson (via IrishTimes.com)
Not specifically SFI related, but there’s a very interesting piece by Karlin Lillington in the Irish Times from a few weeks back about Universities having a lot to learn about start-ups.
“We’re still not obtaining any Irish high performance companies despite the efforts of funding research and technology transfer through organisations such as Science Foundation Ireland,” he [Dr. Rory O'Shea of the UCD School of Business] says. “When you really look at the companies, most are lifestyle companies, add-on consulting companies, rather than high impact companies.”