Steve Flinter’s blog

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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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Web-based feed readers

July 21st, 2006 No Comments

There are a bunch of web-based feed-readers out there (e.g. Bloglines, NewsGator Online, Google Reader, and about a million others). I recently came across NewsHutch by way of an entry in the Signal vs. Noise blog. The interface is beautifully clean and easy to use. The major drawback (at the moment) is [...]

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