DUBLIN WEB SUMMIT & SLUSH - DUBLIN, IRELAND & HELSINKI, FINLAND. #feriainternacional

External Expansion Ltd. tiene el agrado de comunicarles sobre dos de los encuentros más importantes de Europa destinados a empresas startups del sector de tecnologías de la información, software, servicios informáticos, producción de video juegos y aplicaciones móviles. Se trata de excelentes oportunidades para presentar proyectos de inversión, ampliar su red de contactos, construir alianzas estratégicas y posicionar a su empresa ante los principales actores de la comunidad tecnológica internacional.

El primero es el Dublin Web Summit que se realizará en Dublín, Irlanda, entre el 3 y el 5 de noviembre de 2015. Se trata del evento más importante en Europa destinado a startups en etapas iniciales (que aún no hayan recibido aporte de capital de inversores) que ofrezcan productos o servicios innovadores. La inscripción en este evento deberá realizarse a través de las embajadas, consulados, fundaciones u organismos destinados a las ayudas en exportación de su país de origen y dependiendo de la organización les permitirá recibir tickets para su empresa, acceder a un espacio de exposición para exhibir su tecnología durante los días especificados y participar en la feria.

El segundo es el Slush que se realizará en Helsinki, Finlandia, entre el 11 y 12 de noviembre de 2015. La inscripción en este evento deberá realizarse a través de las embajadas, consulados, fundaciones u organismos destinados a las ayudas en exportación de su país de origen y dependiendo de la organización les permitirá recibir tickets para su empresa, participar de rondas de negocios con potenciales inversores, socios estratégicos y/o compradores elegidos especialmente, realizar una presentación oral del proyecto ante un auditorio calificado compuesto por inversores especializados, participar de conferencias dictadas por especialistas en distintas temáticas inherentes al emprendedorismo en nuevas tecnologías, disponer de un stand propio para presentar su proyecto y acceder a una importante base de datos de compañías con las que puede llegar a hacer negocios.

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#Europe: If the #UK quits the #EU, what happens to #Ireland?

As the UK general election looms, a subsequent UK exit from the EU is a real possibility. This extract from a new book analyses the consequences for the Republic.

As the UK general election looms, and with a subsequent referendum on Europe highly likely, a UK exit from the EU becomes a real possibility. A new book, Britain and Europe: The Endgame – An Irish Perspective, examines possible future relationships between the United Kingdom and the European Union and their implications for Ireland... (Read more)

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#Brentcrude drops toward $59 as US jobs data pushes dollar up

US unemployment rate fell to the lowest since May 2008 in February

Brent crude fell towards $59 a barrel on Monday as a promising US jobs report pushed the dollar up. Photo: Bloomberg

Brent crude fell towards $59 a barrel on Monday as a promising US jobs report pushed the dollar up, offsetting geopolitical tensions and the threat of output cuts in Libya and Iraq... (Read more)

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#Ireland: Strap yourselves in, the #globalmilkmarket promises to be a rough ride

Irish dairy farmers will have to surf turbulent times to exploit long-term growth

While milk prices have steadied in the first quarter of 2015, they are still some way off their peak. Photograph: Nigel Marple/Reuters

Last year marked the end of a six-year, China-driven boom in milk prices. Beijing’s stockpiling of milk powder, Russia’s trade response to western sanctions over theUkraine, and a bumper production year sent the market into a nosedive... (Read more)

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#Ireland: End of #Chineseban on #Irishbeef a victory for diplomacy

Chinese veterinary inspectors soon to start approving processing plants in Ireland

The writing has been on the wall for a while, but what a few weeks it has been for Irish beef – Ireland is now the only European country to be allowed to export beef to both theUnited States and China.

Chinese veterinary inspectors will soon begin to approve processing plants for export following the formal lifting of the ban... (Read more)

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#Ireland: #Irishfirms with #international links are more likely to innovate

ESRI-backed research finds correlation between internationalisation and productivity

Research was based on data from Community Innovation Survey data over the period between 2004 and 2008. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Irish firms with international trade links are more likely to invest in innovation; have a higher probability of adopting new technologies; and are, in general, more productive than firms serving only the domestic market, according to new research... (read more)

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#Ireland: #Chemicals account for 58% of value of #Irishexports in 2014

Latest CSO figures underscore role of big pharma in Irish economy

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Chemicals and related products accounted for 58 per cent of the value of Irish exports in 2014, underscoring the role played by big pharma in the Irish economy.

Figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show the value of Irish exports rose 2 per cent to €89 billion last year, while imports increased by 7 per cent to €53.6 billion - the highest level since 2008... (Read more)

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#Ireland: Irish #manufacturing activity grows at slowest pace in eight months in Jan

Investec survey shows new export orders, which hit five-year high in December, fell back in January

Irish manufacturing activity expanded at the slowest pace in eight months in January, according to the Investec Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index. Photo: Alan Betson/ The Irish Times

 

Irish manufacturing activity expanded at the slowest pace in eight months in January as growth in output and orders at home and from abroad eased, a survey showed on Monday... (read more)

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#Ireland: Strong growth continues for #mushroomindustry

Teagasc has worked with growers to build the sector into a huge export industry

Raymond Codd of Codd Mushrooms: the mushroom industry is worth more than €112 million and now employs more than 3,200 people in Ireland

The mushroom industry in Ireland is acknowledged to be one of the best in the world. It is the largest horticultural sector in Ireland and is worth more than €112 million, of which nearly 75 per cent is exported to Britain. It employs more than 3,200 people, mainly in Monaghan, Cavan and Tipperary, as well as Kildare, Meath and Carlow, contributing significantly to the economies of these areas... (Read more)

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#Ireland: #Exporters showcase #Irishmeat at major gastro event in #Lyon

Bord Bia and six meat firms exhibit at biennial Sirha gathering in France’s gastro capital

Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Bord Bia and six of the State’s biggest meat exporters are exhibiting their culinary wares at a major food trade fair in Lyon, the gastro capital of France, this week.

The biennial Sirha gathering, which started on Saturday and runs until Wednesday, is one of the industry’s biggest events, with over 200,000 visitors, including 19,000 international chefs, expected to attend... (Read more)

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#Ireland: #Tradeagreement with #Colombia and #Peru tests our commitment to #humanrights

Colombians who face poverty, inequality and violence want trade that works for them

‘Colombia has a long history of grave human rights violations. Five decades of conflict have resulted in approximately 5.7 million internally displaced people, involving the illegal seizure of approximately six million hectares of land.’ Photograph: Getty Images

The recent review by the Government of our foreign policy, The Global Island, strongly reaffirms a central commitment to human rights. This is to be welcomed. Ireland has earned an enviable reputation as a defender of human rights. However, if these commitments are to be realised, they must stand the test of what we do in practice. The first significant test comes today as the Dáil debates ratification of the EU Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and Peru... (Read more)

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#Ireland has been given a tax cut and a painless #devaluation #swissfranc

Opinion: Swiss franc capitulation and oil price drop mean we are suddenly cheap

People line up at a currency exchange office in Geneva last Friday. ‘One of the richest, most stable and economically successful countries in the world was forced to abandon policies it deemed to be in its best interests.’ Photograph: Martial Trezzini/AP Photo/Keystone

The way in which the markets overwhelmed the Swiss central bank is eerily reminiscent of exchange rate crises of a bygone era.

The adoption of the euro brought to an end the recurring currency crises that afflicted us every few years. But one form of instability had merely been swapped for another rather than being eliminated: we enjoyed the luxury of never-needing reserves to defend an exchange rate but acquired new banking instabilities that will haunt us for years to come... (Read more)

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#Ireland: #USmarket for #Irishbeef may not live up to Minister’s expectations

Industry observers suggest potential for Irish producers limited

Simon Coveney’s suggestion that the US market could take up to 20,000 tonnes of Irish beef in 2015, worth up to €100 million, and “go way beyond that”, is considered by many as too optimistic

Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has overstated the importance of Ireland’s re-entry into the US beef market, according to senior industry sources... (Read more)

#Ireland: President Higgins promotes #Irishbusiness on #China trip

State visit includes Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou  

President Michael D Higgins: will be attending events in China aimed at promoting Ireland run by the Bord Bia, Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and Tourism Ireland, as well as the Science Foundation of Ireland, the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland and representatives from the universities. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins

                                    

There is a strong business flavour to this week’s visit by President Michael D Higgins to China as he will be attending events aimed at promoting Ireland run by the Bord Bia, Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and Tourism Ireland, as well as the Science Foundation of Ireland, the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland and representatives from the universities.

 

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#Ireland: Why we get a better cup in Ireland than all the #tea in #China

In the first of a two-part series, a trip to a Rwandan tea plantation leads to an exploration of how the second World War led to the tea we drink in Ireland being of unusually high quality – and what all this has to do with Anglo Irish Ban

The blame for Ireland’s cataclysmic economic crash can be traced back to tea. Were it not for our enduring love of the stuff, a love stretching back more than 100 years, we might not have been forced by our European overlords to don an economic hairshirt following all that banking unpleasantness in 2008 (more of which anon)... (Read more) 

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#Ireland: #Foodproducers urged to take ‘bigger slice’ of #exportmarket

Fingal Enterprise Week to help small food producers and start-ups connect with buyers

From left: Martin Kennedy, CEO, National Athlete Development Academy, Oisín Geoghegan, head of Fingal Local Enterprise Office and Paul Reid, chief executive Fingal County Council. photograph: mark stedman, photocall ireland

Small Irish food producers should take a “bigger slice” of the growing export market for Irish-made food and drink, said to be worth an estimated €10 billion, according to the organisers of the Dublin Food Chain event... (Read more)

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#Ireland: Simon Coveney hails ‘exciting’ end to #milkquotas

Atmosphere in dairy industry ‘like the night before Christmas’

Dom Moran, secretary general of the Department of Agriculture with Minister Simon Coveney and Gerry Boyle, director of Teagasc, at the National Dairy Conference. Photograph: John T Ohle

The ending of the milk quota regime next March will be the most important and exciting development to hit rural Ireland in a generation, the Minister for Agriculture has said... (Read more)

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#Ireland: Oil drops to four year low on back of rising supply

Glut in oil sees price of barrel drop to $82 with $80 now on horizon

The price of oil continues to fall as a global supply glut grows. (Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Brent oil dropped to a new four-year low below $82 a barrel on Wednesday, a fifth straight day of losses, as weak economic data from China and Europe intensified worries about demand as a global supply glut grows... (Read more)

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#Irishabroad have played ‘major role’ in #economicrecovery

Jimmy Deenihan and Bill Clinton address Global Diaspora and Development Forum in Dublin

Minister of State for the Diaspora Jimmy Deenihan speaking at the Global Diaspora and Development Forum at the Hilton Hotel in Dublin this morning. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / The Irish Times

Irish people around the world have played a “major role” in Ireland’s economic recovery, Minister for the Diaspora Jimmy Deenihan has said.

Speaking at the Global Diaspora and Development Forum in Dublin this morning, Mr Deenihan said the country was “on a pathway to recovery”, and the “diaspora has played a major role in helping us to make that recovery”... (Read more)

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#Ireland: #Exporters told to look to #Africa for #newopportunities

Africa Ireland Economic Forum delegates told that trade is expected to soar over coming years

Minister for Development and Trade Promotion Seán Sherlock said exports from Ireland have increased by approximately 25 per cent in recent years

Trade between Ireland and Africa is expected to reach €24 billion by 2020 as more than one in ten Irish chief executives look to target business opportunities in the region.

Speaking at the opening of the Africa Ireland Economic Forum in Dublin on Thursday, Minister for Development and Trade Promotion Seán Sherlock said exports from Ireland have increased by approximately 25 per cent in recent years while imports from sub-Saharan African countries have doubled... (Read more)

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