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Energy Data For Ireland

Posted on May 15, 2021 by seanmulvany

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. It gathers together the statistics from each member state’s statistics office, like our own CSO and aggregates and analyses from there. They’ve been making great strides recently towards making the data … Continue reading →

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Q1 2021 Seed Investment Data

Posted on May 14, 2021 by seanmulvany

Each quarter, the Irish Venture Capital Association release an overview of the investments made in companies here. Many (about 40-60%) of deals are undisclosed. However, those that are can reveal useful trends in who is investing how much in what. … Continue reading →

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Moving (back) to WordPress

Posted on May 14, 2021 by seanmulvany

I’ve spent the last few years playing with various frameworks like React and Angular (even Java and NetBeans) and using a lot of Bootstrap to roll my own websites to do various things. I think it’s time – after a … Continue reading →

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HealthBox 2013

Posted on January 21, 2013 by seanmulvany

I was at the HealthBox Open Day in London last Thursday where 7 mHealth companies pitched for investment to an invited audience. The companies had participated in the HealthBox 3 month accelerator programme developing aspects of their business as diverse … Continue reading →

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Is the era of profound innovation over?

Posted on January 11, 2013 by seanmulvany

Some interesting articles in this week’s Economist on innovation at http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21569381-idea-innovation-and-new-technology-have-stopped-driving-growth-getting-increasing and http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21569393-fears-innovation-slowing-are-exaggerated-governments-need-help-it-along-great. In short, the view is that the era of transformational change (steam, jets, telephones, etc) is behind us. We’re doomed to incremental innovation that will result in perpetually … Continue reading →

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Connected Health Symposium Recap (Part III)

Posted on November 1, 2011 by seanmulvany

In addition to the innovators I spoke about in my last post, I also heard from panels of investors, advocates and horizon scanners about what it takes to develop Connected Health offerings. There are some interesting trends emerging from the … Continue reading →

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Connected Health Symposium Recap (Part II)

Posted on November 1, 2011 by seanmulvany

I had the good fortune to see short pitches from about 30 innovators with new products and services at the Connected Health Symposium. What follows is an attempt to synthesise the key trends in new Connected Health solutions. In order … Continue reading →

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