In its End of Year Statement published today (Monday), Enterprise Ireland reported that client companies created 19,705 new jobs in 2014, resulting in a net increase of 8,476 in the number of people employed by Enterprise Ireland supported companies, the highest net gain in the history of the agency. The increase in employment reinforces Enterprise Ireland's strategy of driving innovation, scale and leadership positions in international markets and new sectors.
 

The latest of 15 state-supported Technology Centres established jointly by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland has now been opened at the University of Limerick. The centre brings together 24 industry partners and nine Higher Education Institutes which will collaborate to deliver the research.  

Contracts worth almost €10million for Irish companies and rthe creation of 26 local jobs were among the initial, immediate results of the trade and investment mission to Australia, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton said at the conclusion of the mission this weekend.

Minister for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock, today said that Ireland is well on track to reach the €600m research funbding target, with some €269m already awarded by end 2010. He was speraking at a meeting of Research Ministers at an informal meeting of the Competitiveness Council in Budapest under the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union.