Airmid Healthgroup Blog
The neighbourhood bordering the Grand Canal Docks in Dublin where airmid healthgroup's facilities are based has become a hub of start ups, entrepreneurs, tech giants, and innovation, leading to it becoming known as “Silicon Docks”. Following in the footsteps of Google & Facebook, a myriad of leading international companies and investors are being attracted to the area.
Figures from Ireland’s Industrial Development Authority, (the “IDA”) show that in 2012, 140 foreign companies either expanded or launched in Ireland. One of the principal reasons that companies invest in Ireland is access to skilled labour. In a recent Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report commissioned by Citibank, Dublin ranked first for “human capital” in their Global City Competitiveness Index.
Ireland has a rich history of achievements in science and technology and continues to invest in world class research institutes and universities. CRANN, a nanoscience institute and neighbour to airmid healthgroup on Trinity College’s Enterprise Campus, recently secured a lead role in the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Graphene Flagship project. The EU Commission has committed €1 billion to this project, the largest ever research project funded in the history of the European Union.
Dec 03 2012 |
This week members of the airmid team went along to the Big Ideas Showcase organised and sponsored by Enterprise Ireland. “Big Ideas” has become the key event in the Irish technology commercialisation calendar since its successful debut in 2009. The Big Ideas Showcase is the largest gathering of inventors and venture capitalists in the country. The event showcased the latest collection of twenty investment opportunities which are the culmination of years of research by some of Ireland’s finest researchers.
Eleven Technology Transfer Offices also exhibited on the day, illustrating what their Higher Education Institutes in Ireland can offer industry.
Jul 20 2012 |
For this blog entry we are covering the topic of Legionnaires' disease following the outbreak in Edinburgh last month and more recently the outbreak in Stoke-on-Trent in England. Scotland's Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon reported that the number of confirmed and suspected cases of Legionnaires' disease in Edinburgh had risen to 40. Air Quality professionals suspected the source of the outbreak was environmental contamination and early indications suggest it was the result of a contaminated cloud being emitted from a cooling tower in the south west of the city, while the source of the outbreak in Stoke-on-Trent has not yet been identifed.
This post has been written by Peter Desmond, Scientific Researcher, Airmid Healthgroup. Peter is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin with a B.A (mod.) in Microbiology.