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AMBER’s Exec Director Lorraine Byrne, Centre Manager Colm McAtamney, Business Development Manager Denise Carthy and Funding Manager Deirdre Caden attended the Ibec President’s Dinner last week. Congratulations to new Ibec President Colin Hunt and outgoing President Anne O’Leary
Welcome comments made regarding research including future investment, particularly in advance of Budget 2026 by Taoiseach Micheál Martin in his address:
“Investment in skills and innovation will also remain vital for shaping our future. Not only must we increase our support for research and innovation, we must also move fast to engage with transformative developments.
The development of high-skills, advanced sectors in Ireland didn’t happen by chance. Our pro-enterprise policies are critical, but so too has been our investment in people and ideas through support for research.
We can often take this for granted, but we actually have seven universities who are rated in the top 3% of universities in the world. We have many other research facilities which have also transformed our research profile in the past 25 years.
Both applied and basic research are vital to training people and to generating new products and businesses. A renewal of our core research capabilities is a priority for me and progress on this will be shown in the coming months.”
AMBER colleagues pictured with Garret Coady of BlueBridge Technologies board member at Ibec’s Irish Medtech.
Taoiseach’s full speech here
AMBER has a strong emphasis on collaboration. Central to AMBER’s research remit are collaborative projects performed with industry partners, and working with academic, industry and wider stakeholder on international and national research programmes.
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