O’Conall Street

The Irish Times publishes it’s new Innovation magazine today for I think the third time. Available online through Ireland.com, the supplement is a useful tour of the so called knowledge based economy on the island of Ireland. My favourite article ‘From the Ashes’ is the story of business and ideas which picked themselves up after failure and went on to success.  Building on failure is a key characteristic of strong growth open economies in which high added value knowledge based companies succeed.

I blogged some time ago about the ‘creative economy’ in Northern Ireland. Since then it has been refreshing to see Queen’s University Belfast take a number of initiatives to attract top class STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) students. It’s a grand a year if you have three As! Not just a good idea but good corporate communications too.

Not saying anything about the poor Ireland sporting shows this weekend. The Rugby was disappointing, the NI soccer was poor and the Republic, well they were not much better. Just to rub salt in the old wounds the Walker cup boys fell short by a point. Not Good!

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