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Looking for Irelands Best Young Entrepreneurs 2016

September 9, 2016

If you are aged between 18 and 35 with an outstanding idea/commercial venture for a start-up or existing business then you should enter the IBYE Competition. Almost any young person with a business idea can enter this competition.   It doesn’t matter what your background is. Maybe you have been to University and researched a […]

Diary Of A Centre Manager – Week 1

September 5, 2016

Dear Diary,   It’s been a busy week. Lots of visitors and final preparations underway for the two new programmes being delivered in Autumn. One of the boys is just back from the States with stories of beer taps in the centre where he worked for the summer. Simone is having none of it. She thinks […]

Tax and Investment Information Session

August 18, 2016

START UP MANIA Tax and Investment Information Session Location:  Nexus Innovation Centre, Tierney Building, University of Limerick When: 30th August 2016 Time: 11am to 1pm  (Lunch will be provided) Free of Charge   11am     Mairead Connolly & Vic Angley – PWC  Tax Incentives/ Tools to support growth, to include R&D tax credits, knowledge development box […]

Innovation awards: Arralis brings faster technology

Arralis 94GHz radar chipset is offers an alternative communication method Earlier this year the European Space Agency described an invention by Irish company Arralis as “the centrepiece of a powerful 94GHz radar system, offering nearly 10 times sharper resolution than the landing radar used by theApollo missions to the moon”. High praise indeed. The Arralis […]

New collaboration between Lero and Nexus to provide Mid-West start-ups and SMEs with access to world class research

August 15, 2016

Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre and Nexus Innovation Centre, the University of Limerick’s innovation centre, have announced a new collaboration which will bring world class research to start-ups and SMEs in the Mid-West region. The development is being funded under Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) Research Centres programme. The first two companies have recently signed […]

BNest comes to Nexus

June 27, 2016

BNest is a social innovators support programme helping you to understand how all three aspects –Social, Business and Personal, apply to YOUR dream. So… what is BNest about? Personalised support for your Social Enterprise BNest helps you along your start up journey – bringing clarity to your social impact, the business needed to deliver on that and […]

Arralis releases the world’s first 94GHz transmit and receive core chips at IMS2016, San Francisco

May 23, 2016

Arralis, the leading developer of 94GHz technology, has developed another world first with the launch of fully integrated transmit and receive 94GHz core chips at IMS2016.The devices make the highly desirable attenuation window of 94GHz available for commercial applications such as fully autonomous radar for drones and self-driving vehicles as well as ‘wireless fiber’ communication […]

Senior MMIC Design Engineer – Arralis

May 12, 2016

Senior MMIC Design Engineer Location: Limerick Contract: Full time Arralis is currently seeking a Senior MMIC Design Engineer. Responsibilities: Complete product design from component to sub-system to system Be part of or lead a small design team Knowledge and experience: At least five years’ experience of designing monolithic microwave integrated circuits, especially on III-V technologies […]

Ph.D. Research Opportunity with Horizon Globex

April 19, 2016

Horizon Globex have a fully funded and paid Ph.D. research position to anyone who is interested, in association with Lero at the University of Limerick.  The research is in Low Bandwidth Mobile VoIP Technologies. For more information please check out http://www.lero.ie/phdposition/phdlowbandwidthmobilevoip 

New Frontiers Phase 1 – Open for applications now

Phase 1 will be run on Wednesday & Thursday evenings for approximately 5  weeks and is open to individuals who have an innovative idea for a new business. The Phase 1 workshops will allow you to tease out the feasibility of your business idea and to learn what entrepreneurship entails.  Upon completion of the course, […]