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Arclabs NEws- Innovation
Sonru short-listed for Innovation Award
April 20 2010 Innovation SEEPP
The judging panel shortlisted five companies for the much coveted Innovation Award but there can only be one winner but the good news is you can help. The winner will be chosen by public vote, and South East based Sonru are asking for your support by casting a vote for them online at http://www.iia.ie/net-visionary/vote/6 . It’s free to vote and registration is not required.
Ed commented ‘Everything we’ve achieved in the past 18 months has been the result of client and peer feedback which has fed directly into product development, we’re now inviting our customers, contacts and friends to voice their hugely positive feedback again but this time in the public arena.’
This will be the third accolade for Sonru in the past 2 months having won the Bank of Ireland Bright Ideas Challenge Grand Final held in the House of Lords, College Green, Dublin on March 3rd and the Innovate!2010 Dublin Pitch Slam, hosted by Microsoft BizSpark and Enterprise Ireland on March 8th. Fergal O’Byrne, CEO of Sonru added ‘Winning these awards is a tremendous validation of both our business model and our products. We look forward to capitalising on this and furthering our global ambitions.”
Sonru is an automated online video tool. It has applications within the Recruitment, Education, Training and CRM sectors. Sonru provide secure, shareable video interviews. The tool can be used anywhere that remote video can bring efficiencies to a business process.
Comparing Innovation performance across Europe
April 19 2010 InnovationA new edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) has been published on the Pro Inno Europe website which indicates that the economic crisis is impacting innovation.
The EIS 2009 includes innovation indicators and trend analyses for the EU27 Member States as well as for Croatia, Serbia, Turkey, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. Based on their innovation performance across 29 indicators, EU27 Member States fall into the following four country groups:
A new edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) has been published on the Pro Inno Europe website which indicates that the economic crisis is impacting innovation.
The EIS 2009 includes innovation indicators and trend analyses for the EU27 Member States as well as for Croatia, Serbia, Turkey, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. Based on their innovation performance across 29 indicators, EU27 Member States fall into the following four country groups:
- Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden and the UK are the Innovation leaders, with innovation performance well above that the EU27 average and all other countries. Of these countries, Germany and Finland are improving their performance fastest while Denmark and the UK are stagnating.
- Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, France, IRELAND, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Slovenia are the Innovation followers, with innovation performance below those of the Innovation leaders but close to or above that of the EU27 average. Cyprus, Estonia and Slovenia have shown a strong improvement compared to 2008, providing an explanation why these countries have moved from the Moderate innovators in the EIS 2008 to the Innovation followers.
- Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain are the Moderate innovators, with innovation performance below the EU27 average. The EIS 2009 Moderate innovators are a mix of 5 Member States which were Moderate innovators in the EIS 2008 and 5 Member States which were Catching-up countries in the EIS 2008.
- Bulgaria, Latvia and Romania are the Catching-up countries with innovation performance well below the EU27 average. All three countries are rapidly closing their gap to the average performance level of the EU27, and Bulgaria and Romania have been improving their performance the fastest of all Member States.
IRELAND DATA
Ireland is in the group of Innovation followers, with an innovation performance above the EU27 average. It’s rate of improvement just below that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Human resources and Economic effects and relative weaknesses are in Firm investments and Throughputs.
Over the past 5 years, Human resources and Finance and support have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from strong growth in Lifelong learning (13.7%), Private credit (12.7%) and Broadband access by firms (26.9%). Performance in Firm investments, Linkages & entrepreneurship, Throughputs and Innovators has worsened, in particular due to a decrease in Non-R&D innovation expenditures (-5.7%), Innovative SMEs collaborating with others (-7.0%), Community designs (-7.2%) and SMEs introducing product or process innovations (-3.3%).
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