With FDI showing a sharp global decline, IDA Ireland’s Martin Shanahan discussed the competitive challenges ahead with Ann O’Dea. Global foreign direct investment (FDI) saw a dramatic drop in the first half of 2020. This is according to figures from the latest Global Investment Trends Monitor from the United Nations Conference on Read more…
The joint winners are:- Oisín Anderson from NUI Galway – (Supervisor – Maeve Duffy) with his project “Robust and High Efficiency Motor Drive Circuitry for NUI Galway’s 2020 Shell Eco-Marathon Entry” and Ruairi Doherty from GMIT – (Supervisor – Paul Lennon) with his project “Remote-Robot”. Both Oisín and Ruairi will receive Read more…
Source: Irish Times (https://www.irishtimes.com/sponsored/innovation-partner-profiles/smart-technology-applied-to-the-water-supply-in-rural-uganda-1.4304138#) An innovation partnership facilitated by the Enterprise Ireland Wisar Technology Gateway has resulted in the development of a water well pump monitoring solution for deployment in Uganda. Based in Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Wisar specialises in providing internet of things (IoT) solutions to Irish industry. The solution has its origins Read more…
The University of Limerick (UL) and Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) on 16th June 2020 announced two scholarship programs in honor of Peter Real, ADI’s late chief technology officer (CTO) and UL alumnus. The scholarships will be awarded to students in the United States who are pursuing a PhD and undergraduate Read more…
MIDAS Ireland member, Maxim Integrated will spend more than €23 million on a new design centre at its Irish base that could create up to 100 jobs. The San José, California-based multinational confirmed on Wednesday that it is investing $25 million (€23.16 million) on building a new design centre at its Read more…
MIDAS Ireland member, Decawave has been bought by California-based Qorvo. Decawave was founded in Ireland in 2007 to develop ICs capable of identifying the specific location of any object, person or thing with centimetre-precise accuracy. Ciaran Connell, co-founder and CEO of Decawave, has described the company’s technology as GPS for Read more…
The 2019 Recipient of the MIDAS Ireland Lifetime Achievement Award is Prof. Gerry Wrixon. In honouring Prof. Wrixon, the association recognises his pioneering contributions to the microelectronics industry in Ireland as founder and former CEO of the National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC), which was succeeded by the Tyndall National Institute Read more…
