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Business of Software Conference (Day 1)

November 6th, 2007 No Comments

Last week, I had the pleasure and good fortune of attending the Business of Software conference in San Jose, California.
The lineup of speakers was truly impressive – many well-known figures from the software and blogging worlds.
Here’s a quick run-down of the speakers, and my impression of their talks. For a more detailed set of [...]

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Funding of technology transfer

August 4th, 2006 No Comments

ElectricNews is carrying an article reporting the call from two NUI Galway academics for more government funding of technology tranfer.

Cunningham and Harney argue that this process of commercialising research should be a vital component of the Government’s pledged investment of EUR3.8 billion to build a knowledge economy.

I absolutely agree. And in fact it already is. [...]

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