Sunday Independent: If the north of England was a country, it would be the 10th largest economy in Europe, exporting €56.4 billion worth of goods each year and accounting for nearly 20% of the UK's overall gross value add (GVA).

Agritech and other agricultural companies are encouraged to apply for the Innovation Arena Awards at the National Ploughing Championships 2018.

€50k Phase One Horizon 2020 funding wins for six Enterprise Ireland client companies including BioProbe Diagnostics, Sothic Bioscience and Hexafly.

Last year, 35pc of all high-potential start-ups (HPSUs) backed by Enterprise Ireland were women-led. Enterprise Ireland CEO Julie Sinnamon tells Silicon Republic, this is not enough.

Founder of Izzy Wheels, Ailbhe Keane, knew she had to take advantage of the opportunities coming her way, so she applied for CSF funding.

Recessions don’t only affect a company’s bottom line. They have an impact across the board and companies typically become cautious and batten down the hatches. But when things went south in 2008, Piero Tintori did the opposite.

Denise Tormey established PlanNet21 in 1998 to assist global US companies to establish or expand their technology, security, communications and mobility operations in Europe and the United States. 

Toy creators Luz and Noel Donegan took the digital plunge to develop book authoring apps BookieWookies and OOKS.

BeeInstant allows software engineers, app developers and tech firms to measure how their computer programs are doing and when and how customers interact with them.

Four start-ups are to battle it out for a €10,000 innovation prize in the 2018 Bolton Trust-PwC Innovation Awards later this month.

Irish travel tech start-up Likewhere is looking to raise €800,000 as it seeks to capitalise on a number of recent big contract wins.

Ireland's economy is hugely interlinked with the UK. Can those links be kept after the UK leaves the EU, or will Irish business have to change direction? BBC Radio 4 attended the recent Brexit Advisory Clinic in Cootehill. 

Cork City Council and the Cork Smart Gateway initiative have this week launched the €70,000 Small Business Research and Innovation (SBIR) Challenge with Enterprise Ireland.

According to research undertaken ahead of this year’s final on April 22nd, some 348 entrepreneurs who received financial support under the programme between 2014 and 2016 now have sales of €124 million between them.

Irish company Kastus has come a long way. Since beginning life as a spin out from the Centre for Research in Engineering Surface Technology at DIT, the company has gone on to win the overall prize at the prestigious Irish Times Innovation Awards in 2017.

The Cork event is fully booked but registrations are still being accepted for Limerick on 19 April, Killarney on 26 April and Roscommon on 1 May.