Ireland is streets ahead of the other PIIGS on innovation

[bob3367]

your right i am wrong, it is 2.4 trillion debt. thats 1,165% GDP. bye bye future.

Utter rubbish, you sound like a child, ffs grow a pair....

[Impartial_Eclipse]

It wasn't supposed to be, it was a statement about you OP and feelings about the said subject.

Blacklion,

The information in the original post is good news. I offer my abject apologies if this has ruined your evening. To show my contrition, I will happily post links to reports on yesterday's rugby match or that IMF statement on Chinese growth prospects to assist you in resuming your formerly gloomy demeanour.

[Impartial_Eclipse]

I have a friend who has developed, a new product that will help in the elimination of a problem that costs industry $15bn per year, Irish Design, and innovation, he just got his first round of funding, his patent is valid in 142 countries, this is one example.

A true national hero. Please pass on my congratulations and, for God's sake, don't let him see the comments from the begrudging moaners in this thread.

[daveL]

I'd like to know how much of that is 'real' R&D rather than stuff that is thrown into that bucket for tax purposes

A lot

[BlackLion]

Blacklion,

The information in the original post is good news. I offer my abject apologies if this has ruined your evening. To show my contrition, I will happily post links to reports on yesterday's rugby match or that IMF statement on Chinese growth prospects to assist you in resuming your formerly gloomy demeanour.

well sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

[bob3367]

A true national hero. Please pass on my congratulations and, for God's sake, don't let him see the comments from the begrudging moaners in this thread.

Gave up his job, married, 3 kids, lives on little, Begged from EI, and got himself a private investor....there is a few more hurdles to jump, and he has no exit strategy, wants to develop the business, and employ as many as he can.

Starting in the UK, then Europe, US.....should keep him busy.(sales)

[Ex celt]

Amazing, if true, from a country that has no Nobel Prizes in the Sciences(other than from one or two Anglos who earned them in Oxbridge),whose universities are way down the leagues,whose government provides little or no funding for research and which has no real history of R and D.
I suspect that the patent applications have been filed on behalf of multinationals but hope that I am wrong.It is a positive development all round.
Am astounded at the Portugal stat as I was reliably informed yesterday,by an impeccable source,that they were the hardest working people in the world.

[bob3367]

Amazing, if true, from a country that has no Nobel Prizes in the Sciences(other than from one or two Anglos who earned them in Oxbridge),whose universities are way down the leagues,whose government provides little or no funding for research and which has no real history of R and D.
I suspect that the patent applications have been filed on behalf of multinationals but hope that I am wrong.It is a positive development all round.
Am astounded at the Portugal stat as I was reliably informed yesterday,by an impeccable source,that they were the hardest working people in the world.

The problem is not the research, its getting funding to further it and ultimately fund its exploitation, thus generating jobs and economic growth.

[JCR]

I don't think patent applications are going to remove 250b of bank debt, unless its a debt eating invention.

Actually I have filed a patent application for eating bank debt as it happens. Its called the Big Red Debt Eater. I got the idea from a dream I had of Mary Harney just eating the debt while covered in red paint.

[Impartial_Eclipse]

Amazing, if true, from a country that has no Nobel Prizes in the Sciences(other than from one or two Anglos who earned them in Oxbridge),whose universities are way down the leagues,whose government provides little or no funding for research and which has no real history of R and D.
I suspect that the patent applications have been filed on behalf of multinationals but hope that I am wrong.It is a positive development all round.
Am astounded at the Portugal stat as I was reliably informed yesterday,by an impeccable source,that they were the hardest working people in the world.

I'm not saying that we're tops in Europe - simply that we're doing a lot better than the other four with whom Ireland is normally grouped.

R&D expenditure is slightly below the EU average. as a percentage of GDP. See this link.

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/sta..._of_GDP%29.png

I don't see the relevance of historical events in this matter. When people are poor and hungry, they're more concerned with basic survival issues. 150 years ago, we were starving. 90-100 years ago, undernourishment was still a major problem. Now we're obese. It's just the past that's a different country - Ireland is too.