Dr Diarmuid O’Brien, executive director of the SFI-funded Crann CSET, makes the case in The Irish Times
for the continued ongoing investment in R&D, coordinated between Irish Universities and Irish and multinational industry.
Dr O’Brien rightly distinguishes between the concrete benefits in terms of successful projects and the benefit of encouraging the more generic culture of research and entrepreneurship.
Article includes several interesting examples of recent initiatives.
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Great report in the Irish Times today of Tony Connolly’s success in Australia in conjunction with Deloittes. This is the type of entrepreneur activity which can get this country back on its feet. Well done Tony!
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Great piece in the Irish Times introducing a number of the top financial blogs – for those interested. Ironically another example of a challenge to the newspapers – provided by a combination of economists and journalists.
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The Irish Times reports on 29th January agreement being reached between Eircom and four records companies re illegal downloads of music – implementation of the ‘three strikes and you’re out’ approach by Eircom (and, presumably, other ISPs at a future date). Writing in the GigaOM blog, 31 January 2009, Janko Roettgers, under the heading ,’BitTorrent Researcher: Copy will be dead by 2010′ references research conducted by Johan Pouwelse. Pouwelse would argue that we need to look at all of the social networking activity and how it is evolving – he references FaceBook and YouTube as two good examples. Pouwelse bundles these with some of the more traditional P2P platforms. He argues that this is a run away – in terms of popularity. He does not see any future for traditional thinking re copyright.
It will be interesting to see how things play out. Obviously the traditional music industry has been taking a hammering. And the recent agreement is seen as a way to respect people’s property and protect employment. But will the social networking sites have to be dealt with in the same way as the more obvious p2p?
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