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A wide range of companies have operations in Galway
A YOUNG AND VIBRANT UNIVERSITY CITY WITH A HIGHLY EDUCATED WORKFORCE, GALWAY HAS DEVELOPED INTO A GLOBAL CENTRE OF ACTIVITY FOR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND ICT OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, WITH MANY COMPANIES USING IT AS A BASE FOR ESTABLISHING AND SERVICING THEIR EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. Multinational companies with operations in the city include
Boston Scientific, Medtronic, HP, Avaya, Covidien, Merit Medical, EA, Nortel, SAP and Cisco. The city has two main third-level institutions, NUI Galway (NUIG) and Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), which have a combined student population of around 25,000. A world leader for research in biomedical science and engineering, web science, marine science, energy and environmental science, applied social sciences, and public policy, NUI Galway has over 17,000 students and more than 2,400 staff across five colleges. The university has collaborations in 106 countries and has partnered with 2,792 research institutions. It has a number of world-class research centres. For example, the Digital Enterprise Research Institute
(Deri) is an internationally recognised institute in semantic web research, education and technology transfer, which collaborates with industry partners on a range of research projects, including Fujitsu, which is conducting research in network knowledge, as well as companies like HP, Cisco, IBM, Storm and CelTrak. Remedi, the Regenerative Medicine Institute, focuses on gene
therapy and stem cell research and currently has partnerships with life sciences companies such as Medtronic and Creganna- Tactx Medical. Elsewhere, the Ignite Technology Transfer Office explores
and facilitates commercial opportunities for the research community at NUIG and facilitates industry partnerships.
Eyre Square (Photo credit: Fáilte Ireland)
Issue 7 Autumn/Winter 2013 INNOVATION IRELAND REVIEW 31
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