Innovation Dublin 2010
Posted on: 17 November 2010
Innovation Dublin 2010, a festival of events* taking place this week, aims to showcase Dublin’s innovative, creative and entrepreneurial spirit. The goal of the Innovation Dublin festival is to provide all Dubliners with an opportunity to discuss, promote and celebrate innovation in the city.
To celebrate Innovation Dublin 2010, Trinity College has organised a range of events including workshops and exhibitions, seminars and showcases, in the areas of science, business, history, education, music and the arts to name but a few. To highlight the importance of the Smart Economy, this year’s events have a strong focus on entrepreneurialism and highlight the importance of university research for national recovery and in creating commercial opportunities. An event celebrating the TCD/ UCD Innovation Academy will demonstrate how the Innovation Academy enables TCD and UCD researchers become vibrant entrepreneurs. In addition, a lecture series featuring guest entrepreneurs will highlight the challenges faced when commercialising technology from a university and show how to assess the value of an idea.
Other highlights of the schedule for Innovation Dublin 2010 include a lecture in the Trinity Long Room Hub that will present some of the innovative technologies involved in recording and transforming the hidden codes of some of the medieval music manuscripts of the TCD library. A symposium on ‘Imperial Cultures’ highlights how the events of 1916 in Ireland led to changes in the world system of empire and a seminar on ‘Climate Justice’ will be delivered by Chancellor Mary Robinson, Chair of the Mary Robinson Foundation on Climate Justice.
Innovation Dublin, a concept developed by the Creative Dublin Alliance and coordinated by Dublin City Council, is organised by a multidisciplinary steering committee made up of the Dublin local authorities, third level institutions, state agencies, businesses and the not-for-profit sector. It was launched in Trinity College’s Science Gallery in June 2009 and in its first year exceeded all expectations with over 40,000 visitors attending hundreds of events leading to new interactions and connections across the city. Following this initial success it was decided to make the festival an annual event. For further information on events that are scheduled in Trinity College and other Dublin locations see www.innovationdublin.ie.
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- Forging Ireland’s Identity : Yeats and the Croatian Contribution.
Date/Venue: Wednesday, 17th November, 11.30am, Trinity Long Room Hub.
- Small Business Can, Start-Up Live Events
Date/Venue: Wednesday, 17th November, 6.00pm, Science Gallery.
- Entrepreneurial Universities Showcasing the Impact on Research
Venue/Date: Thursday, 18th November, 12 noon – 6pm, Science Gallery.
- Opportunity Recognition/Value Proposition
Date/Venue: Thursday, 18th November, 12.30 – 2.00pm, O’Reilly Institute, Large Conference Room.
- Study Makes a Scholar, Action makes an Entrepreneur
Date/Venue: Friday, 19th November, 5.00pm, TCD-UCD Innovation Academy, Foster Place, College Green, Dublin 2.
- Green Machine
Date/Venue: November 10th-21st, Science Gallery.
- The Science Safari
Podcast is available to download: http://ingeniousireland.ie/podcast-audio-tours/science-safari-trinity-college-dublin/