Drive To Match Researchers With Investors

Business & Finance - Investment

Thursday, 21 October 2010 16:14

Written by Noel Cotter

The Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Conor Lenihan TD, today launched a new drive to match researchers with investors.

Enterprise Ireland’s Big Ideas Showcase allows 18 researchers to pitch exciting new technologies to over 200 potential investors and partners.

Minister Lenihan said the initiative was an opportunity for researchers to turn their work into commercial products and generate new companies and jobs.

All of the technologies were developed from state-funded research in higher education institutes.

The focus of the event is on securing investment and business partners to bring these projects to the next stage in commercialisation.

The event will see over 100 one-to-one meetings between the inventors and the potential investors to explore the options to either licence these new technologies or use them as the basis to form new companies in the energy, life sciences, medical engineering and IT sectors.

The Big Ideas Showcase is part of the Government’s and Enterprise Ireland’s strategy to commercialise publicly funded research.