http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress Information on ArcLabs Research and Innovation Centre @ WIT Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:25:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dungarvan Shopping Centre, in association with West Waterford Chamber of Commerce and Waterford County Enterprise Board, are running a competition offering rent-free modern office space in a new development in the centre of Dungarvan. I haven't worked out the value of this but 775 sq. ft. of premium office space ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/free-office-space-competition/ I recently saw an interesting presentation by Kevin Burke of Enterprise Ireland, on licensing as a route to market for technology firms. Kevin and his colleagues in the technology transfer department will work with clients to expoit or to find technologies across Europe.For many small companies, this approach could be ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/licensing/ My colleagues and I from across the Institutes of Technology said goodbye this week to Gráinne Ní Uid of Enterprise Ireland. Gráinne has been with the campus-based business incubator programme for a number of years and has been a great friend and support to the network of centre managers. We ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/end-of-an-era/ Just back from the it@cork conference. Great venue, well organised, good food and facilities. It looked like about 200 people attended.Eddie Hobbs opened the proceedings and was very entertaining, as always.It seemed strange somehow to see people like Hugh MacLeod, Marc Canter and Salim Ismail, whose blogs I read almost ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/itcork-conference/ Keith Bohanna and I have been talking about this for while and his posting now puts it in motion. Aiming for Saturday, January 20. '07 http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/barcamp-southeast/ Thanks to Colin Rooney of Arthur Cox Solicitors who delivered an excellent seminar at ArcLabs last week, on legal issues for start-up companies. In a couple of hours, Colin covered a wide range of issues and generated a lot of interaction. He also held a number of one-to-one sessions ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/legal-seminar/ Interesting post on Valleywag about a New York Times article on how and why early-stage companies are financing themselves and growing without resorting to VC funding. Irish start-ups face the same problem; finding relatively modest amounts of funding without the constraints that typical VC firms impose. http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/avoiding-venture-capital/ Looking forward to a workshop on November 15 where Colin Rooney from the Technology and Intellectual Property Practice of Arthur Cox Solicitors will discuss a range of legal and IP matters that entrepreneurs need to be aware of. Topics will include: - Company formation - incorporation and corporate governance matters - Forming ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/workshop-legal-issues-for-early-stage-companies/ We ran a series of workshops at ArcLabs this week led by Jeff Weigel, aimed at helping early-stage companies to consider a range of cost-effective possibilities for creating a sales presence in North America. This is Jeff's second visit to ArcLabs and he brings a wealth of experience - both ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/workshop-selling-profitably-in-north-american-markets/ Tom Raftery recently ran a business blogging worshop at ArcLabs. We had a mix of entrepreneurs and researchers; some technical and some not so and Tom did a fine of job of meeting a broad set of expectations from the course. If you get a chance to attend one of ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/blogging-workshop/ As part of the official opening on October 16, the Research and Innovation Centre has been re-branded as ArcLabs. We will be changing the website and blog in the coming weeks to reflect this. http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/arclabs-opens/ From Chris Chedgey's blog:"Structure101 v2 goes beta today. With it you can walk through the code-base in slices from the class-level, to the package-level and up through the design levels, spotting tangles and seeing how far they have spread."I like Chris' analogy of using the product to do a CAT ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/structure101-v2-now-in-beta/ From Business Week online: This article has an interesting take on what drives entrepreneurs; from research carried at Wharton by Brian Wu.What to you think? http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/ego-makes-entrepreneurs/ Nubiq Limited, a spin-out company from the TSSG research group at WIT, will launch its first product, Zinadoo, later today.Zinadoo allows users to build free mobile websites and to use these with a range of text messaging services. They are already planning to trial the system in China by the ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/zinadoo-launches-today/ ...and I'll miss it...BarCamp Ireland is finally going ahead on September 30 and looks like being a super event.Sadly, I'll have to settle for the photos and podcasts. http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/barcamp-is-set-for-webworks-cork-on-september-30th/ Its great to see this subject getting some real attention at last.In a previous post I mentioned the FEIW project running at WIT and now Enterprise Ireland have announced a major conference: Female Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century. It has a impressive line-up of speakers, including Louise Grubb, CEO of ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/more-on-female-entrepreneurship/ No, its not a typo!The FEIW project, which is run jointly by WIT's Centre for Entrepreneurship and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth , is putting together a very interesting programme for female entrepreneurs. Its well-recognised that women are less likely to start businesses and this project aims to address the ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/why-so-feiw/ This posting on the Eirepreneur blog points to the Map24 website which has better street-level and rural maps of Ireland than I've seen to date. Our centre is located in a townsland (an old designation - one step lower than a village) but I can locate it very quickly by ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/map24-now-covers-ireland/ One of our clients, Chris Chedgey, CEO of Headway Software, has been blogging here on the subject of understanding software complexity and controlling software architecture. You can learn about Headway's key product, Structure101 here. http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/chris-blog-deconstructing-software/ Interviews are underway for entry to the 2006/2007 South East Enterprise Platform Programme (SEEPP) which is based at the Innovation Centre. This is the premier programe of WIT's Centre for Entrepreneurship and is now in its eight year of operation. There are still a small number of places available; contact ... http://www.raicentre.com/wordpress/20062007-enterprise-platform-programme/