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FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INCREASING WORKFORCE IN GALWAY
International financial services provider Fidelity Investments recently announced that it is adding 200 new jobs at its facilities in Dublin and Galway as part of a significant IDA-supported investment over the next few years. Fidelity Investments established its presence in Ireland in 1996 and currently employs almost 500 technology and operations professionals in Galway and Dublin. “Ireland is a proven market in which Fidelity can
Galway Arts Festival Big Top Fireworks, 6 June 2012 (Photo credit: Tourism Ireland)
continue to develop a vital part of our increasingly global organisation,” said Travis Carpico, president of Fidelity Investments Ireland. The main objective of the company’s R&D facility in
Galway is to establish corporate centres of excellence in the areas of search, security and applied behavioural economics.
MEDTRONIC OPENS €7.7M COLLABORATION CENTRE IN GALWAY
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Medtronic has opened a €7.7m customer innovation centre in Galway designed to enable visiting doctors and the company’s engineers to collaborate on developing new therapies. The centre, which cost €7.7m to build and received support from the IDA, includes hybrid, demonstration and collaboration labs that enable visitors to get hands-on experience with the Medtronic’s latest technologies. The facility also includes digital communication technology for global networking, 3D printing facilities to prototype new ideas, and extensive training and education facilities. Every year, up to 500 physicians and customers are
expected to visit the centre, which is located at Medtronic’s Galway site, the centre of excellence for the development and manufacture of the company’s treatments for cardiovascular and cardiac rhythm diseases. Gerard Kilcommins, vice-president, global vascular
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (Photo credit: Ros Kavanagh)
operations and general manager of Galway site, said the investment is based on the success of the current customer programme, which has been running at the facility for a number of years. “At Medtronic, collaboration is the key to innovation,” he said. “This new centre will create greater opportunities for collaboration with customers from across the globe in order to better understand their needs and the needs of their patients and together develop therapies that meet today’s healthcare challenges.”
Issue 7 Autumn/Winter 2013 INNOVATION IRELAND REVIEW 33
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