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From the National Digital Research Centre website:

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The NDRC is currently calling for project proposals under three newly launched programmes:

1. Entrepreneurial Internships Programme

2. CTR Feasibility Programme

3. Collaborative Translational Research Programme

1. Entrepreneurial Internships: This programme is designed to develop small scale projects with aspiring entrepreneurs to produce commercially focused applications in the web and mobile space. This investment programme is an avenue for individuals or small teams with links to a third level institution to pursue potential opportunities from idea to application in a supportive environment and among a set of peers. For more information about our Entrepreneurial Internship programme visit this page.

2. CTR Feasibility projects: We are investing in a programme to develop projects with established academics and companies that are potential collaborative translational research projects, but would benefit from upfront problem-solution and market validation. The focus of projects within the programme will be in the areas of health, education, entertainment and the environment. For more information about our CTR Feasibility programme visit this page.

3. Collaborative Translational Research projects: Having built a portfolio of collaborative translational research projects, the National Digital Research Centre is embarking on a second investment phase in further collaborative translational research.  As such, the NDRC is seeking to facilitate further collaborations between established academics and industry partners to develop commercially-focused research projects in the application areas of health, education, entertainment and the environment.

In this specific call, the NDRC is particularly interested in receiving proposals for environmental technologies – specifically targeted at energy efficiency as distinct from green energy generation – in a digital context. We are not, however, excluding good ideas in other digital application areas. For more information about our Collaborative Translational Research programme visit this page.

To register and access online forms for all of these programmes visit this page.

Chris Horn was looking for information on technology company exits since 2000. I had some data and with the help of some twitter buddies I grabbed a bunch of others last night.

Some of the numbers are in Euros (very few) and some exits are undisclosed so we can say with some degree of certainty that the the total exit values are,

1.6 billion dollars

That sounds like a lot of money (well it used to until our developers and banks blew 90bn) but we need to factor in a few other things get a proper understanding of whether this represents a real return on investment.

• How much was invested (we could probably total EI and IVCA figures to get this number)
• How much employment was generated (this represents tax income to the exchequer and economic activity)
• How many are still employing people in Ireland today

Only when we have this data will we understand the true meaning of the 1.6bn USD.

Incidentally most of the data was retrieved from the excellent Thomas Crosbie Holdings Archives. I recommend site specific searching of this archive use the google site directive. For example to find stuff on Iona,

site:http://archives.tcm.ie/ iona

I have been tagging and information I find with the delicious.com tag #irishexits. Can I suggest anyone else looking do the same.

Here is a public google spreadsheet with a list of all the exits I can hunt down on the web to date since 2006.

Please post a comment if you have come across any I have missed. Ideally also add them to delicious with the delicious tag "#irishexits.

Dear AWS Customer,

We are excited today to introduce the public beta of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce, you can instantly provision as much or as little capacity as you like to perform data-intensive tasks for applications such as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, and bioinformatics research. Amazon Elastic MapReduce lets you focus on crunching or analyzing your data without having to worry about time-consuming set-up, management or tuning of Hadoop clusters or the compute capacity upon which they sit.

Working with the service is easy: Develop your processing application using our samples or by building your own, upload your data to Amazon S3, use the AWS Management Console or APIs to specify the number and type of instances you want, and click "Create Job Flow." We do the rest, running Hadoop over the number of specified instances, providing progress monitoring, and delivering the output to Amazon S3.

We hope this new service will prove a powerful tool for your data processing needs. You can sign up and start using the service today at aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce.

Sincerely,

The Amazon Web Services Team

Here is a list of all the Enterprise Ireland HPSU’s for the last few years.

I’ve created a search engine dedicated to Irish Startups. It has a dedicated page, but its actually a Google Customised Search Engine.

I need your help to keep it up to date, so please add yourself as a collaborator and bung in your own Irish business website and any others you can think of.

Give it spin.

So welcome to Startup Ireland. This site is designed to centralise all the information that an Irish Entrepreneur might need to get started.