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Cover Story
Turning Up The Heat
To compete internationally, Ireland's food companies face and must embrace a new health-conscious consumer market. In functional foods, Ireland has laggeed behind, However, 'industry-led research' is the way forward and has recently emerged in Ireland with exciting results. Leslie Faughnan reports.
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Features
Space Takes Time: Liaising with the European Space Agency
A team from the Europena Space Agency visited Ireland on 11 September to talk about Cosmic Vision. The team included the Scientific Director, David Southwood, and the Head of Advanced Concepts and Science Payloads, Tone Peacock. In this article, Tone Peacock speaks about the technologies that ESA needs for its near-future plans
Informatics To Market: The 2006 showcase
On 28 September, the William Jefferson Clinton Centre at University College Dublin hosted the second annual Enterprise Ireland/Investment informatics commercialisation showcase. This demonstrated nine new technologies whose development has been supported because of strong potential. Alan Swan took a look.
De Viento Y Sol: Irish technology used in Spanish renewable energy
Rising oil prices and concerns over the stability of global oil production are driving much debate among governments on how energy-consumption can be controlled and how renewable energies can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. John Roche examines how Irish technologies are used in Spain's response.