The economic and financial crisis of Ireland has revealed some of the structural contradictions of this country, but also pointed claws the Celtic Tiger, that will not passively accept the defeat. And that recipe has been found to boost the national economy? It might seem absurd for an Italian reader and yet it is this: the solution was to invest in advanced scientific research and technological development plan a future for the country.
To understand how the system works in Ireland, I went to visit the Tyndall National Institute, the largest research institute in the country. We are working more or less 435 people, including scientists, engineers, technicians and support staff. There are about 80 different nationalities and staff is growing at a rate of 10% per year.
Of course, there the Italians, who are at present about thirty. Many are young and three of them, even in their forties, are in charge of specific research departments. The purpose of the institute is to study and create technologies and applications "from the atom to the system, or from pure theory and experimental research to operational products and patents marketability.
Examples: new lasers, processors infinitesimal thickness, components of micro - and nano - electronics, biomedical sensors that can avoid hospitalization of patients, miniaturized radar systems with applications for security, environmental monitoring and medicine. The Tyndall is actively supported by the Irish state, and that this year despite the crisis (indeed, because of the crisis) has focused on new technologies as the cornerstone of its economic development.
Strong investment made in terms of "intelligence", the Tyndall is the number one European institute for scientific publications in relation to the number of researchers, and many of its projects are funded directly by the European Union, as a sign of excellence can also be supported at EU level.
But those are not just public money that move research in Ireland. At present there are over 300 private companies that invest their capital here in research and scientific cooperation. Let me repeat a couple of times I felt good, just three hundred companies are only for this institution.
Among the major multinationals such as Intel's, which will execute the transistor microprocessors of the future using its recently developed by scholars of Tyndall. My tour in the "Wonderland" comes to an end. They see me speechless and I explain that the Republic of Ireland has a national strategic development plan, in which technological innovation and the creation of so-called "knowledge economy" have a central role.
Needless to explain that we, in Italy, those things just can not have them. Mauro Longo, a freelance journalist, Cork (Ireland) 
To understand how the system works in Ireland, I went to visit the Tyndall National Institute, the largest research institute in the country. We are working more or less 435 people, including scientists, engineers, technicians and support staff. There are about 80 different nationalities and staff is growing at a rate of 10% per year.
Of course, there the Italians, who are at present about thirty. Many are young and three of them, even in their forties, are in charge of specific research departments. The purpose of the institute is to study and create technologies and applications "from the atom to the system, or from pure theory and experimental research to operational products and patents marketability.
Examples: new lasers, processors infinitesimal thickness, components of micro - and nano - electronics, biomedical sensors that can avoid hospitalization of patients, miniaturized radar systems with applications for security, environmental monitoring and medicine. The Tyndall is actively supported by the Irish state, and that this year despite the crisis (indeed, because of the crisis) has focused on new technologies as the cornerstone of its economic development.
Strong investment made in terms of "intelligence", the Tyndall is the number one European institute for scientific publications in relation to the number of researchers, and many of its projects are funded directly by the European Union, as a sign of excellence can also be supported at EU level.
But those are not just public money that move research in Ireland. At present there are over 300 private companies that invest their capital here in research and scientific cooperation. Let me repeat a couple of times I felt good, just three hundred companies are only for this institution.
Among the major multinationals such as Intel's, which will execute the transistor microprocessors of the future using its recently developed by scholars of Tyndall. My tour in the "Wonderland" comes to an end. They see me speechless and I explain that the Republic of Ireland has a national strategic development plan, in which technological innovation and the creation of so-called "knowledge economy" have a central role.
Needless to explain that we, in Italy, those things just can not have them. Mauro Longo, a freelance journalist, Cork (Ireland)
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