Sunday Independent: For Irish medtech companies, the North American Healthcare Forum is an unprecedented chance to learn about the challenges of these healthcare providers.

Twelve start-ups will pitch their Big Ideas at Enterprise Ireland’s 10th annual showcase of innovative research emerging from the Irish academic system. This year's event takes place at the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin.

Enterprise Ireland’s 10th Big Ideas showcase comes to the Guinness Storehouse on 5 September 2018. At the event, 12 promoters will pitch their big ideas to investors, hoping to secure a deal or partnership that will bring their development to the next level.

Up to now the outlook for a patient with an inoperable tumour was bleak, but Helena Kelly of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) is hoping to tip the balance more favourably with a new approach to the treatment of the disease.

A new tech start-up that turns enterprise data into knowledge to generate insight and improved business operations has been launched in Dublin.

Dublin continues to emerge as a financial center with international gravitas. It has emerged as a leading global financial hub and in no sector does this ring truer than that of ‘RegTech’.

Mobile telecoms software company Anam Technologies has secured €2.35 million in investment in recent months as it looks to build on a number of recent big contract wins overseas.

The Technology Gateway Network, run by Enterprise Ireland in partnership with institutes of technology around the State, has led to the creation of 1,250 jobs in 1,500 companies as a result of the successful completion of more than 2,750 innovative projects over the past five years.

Glanbia’s expansion on its Belview facility in Co. Waterford is well underway, judging from images recently shared by the Irish dairy giant.

From the rise of data analysis and personalisation to voice recognition applications, new technologies are continually changing the retail landscape.

The average human today spends a huge 80-95% of their time indoors. We have become an indoor generation and, for the most part, the air that we breathe is also indoor air.

This week, Enterprise Ireland hosted the "Research, Innovation, and Science Policy Experts" (RISE) high level group that advises the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas.