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DRIVE FOR GROWTH is an Interreg III B North West European Area Project.

The objective of the DRIVE partners is to enhance connections between the Research and Production communities in each of their regions and ultimately across the European Union. Read more

Project activities include an initial survey of innovation in each of the regions with a particular emphasis on what companies see as critical to the development their innovativeness.

A series of innovation focused workshops and seminars will be held for companies over the term of the project.

An internet based platform, which acting as an automatic brokering tool between the research and production sectors, facilitates the easy exchange of information and builds linkages within and across the research and production sectors in the participating regions.

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  • Monday 31/03/2008
    SEMINAR

    IS CONNECTING BITS TO ATOMS SUFFICIENT? Identification of Information in System of Systems

    This Industry-Academic Forum for Innovation, Vision and Policy will take place in the SOLAS Auditorium, Institute of Technology Tralee on April 22nd 2008.

    This inagural event is being organised by the Centre for Innovation in Distributed Systems at the Institute of Technology Tralee in partnership with Kerry Technology Park, the South West Regional Authority, ESTIIC-INTERREG IIIC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Forum for Supply Chain Innovation (FSCI).

    To access the programme, review the world class line up of speakers and register log onto http://www.cids.ie/april22_programme.html
  • Almost 200 people attend International DRIVE conference in Killarney
    Tuesday 04/03/2008
    Almost 200 participants attended the recently held DRIVE Conference on 'How to Speak the Same Language: Getting Businesses and Research Organisations to Work Together'. To download the papers and view speaker details click on the conference link.