On Thursday, May 5th, 2016, it@cork hosted the 2016 European Tech Summit, “Bringing you world class speakers from the Irish & European Tech Sector” event from City Hall, Cork. The event had a wide variety of topics featured but it was fintech, cybersecurity and a surprise announcement by Pat Phelan of Trustev that stole the…
With a wide variety of industries in Ireland conducting various projects, many companies tend to get confused or question, “what actually qualifies for an R&D Tax Credit Claim”? Below are but not limited to, some of the qualifying costs for an R&D Tax Credit Claim. Labour Costs Allowable costs include salaries, pension contributions, bonus payments,…
The Irish Government has launched the world’s first Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development compliant tax regime for Intellectual Property (IP) as of 1st January 2016 called the “Knowledge Development Box” (KDB). Many of the leading global corporations in technology and science sectors that are involved in the commercialisation of intellectual property have selected Ireland…
On Friday, March 25th, Damien English (Minister for Skills, Research & Innovation) announced Ireland will be receiving €251 million in funding from Horizon 2020. The funding from Horizon 2020 is for research and innovation. This is great news for Ireland as this encourages more companies and organisations to conduct research and innovation in Ireland instead of having…
On Monday, March 21st, Science Foundation Ireland announced a joint partnership between Ireland and the USA on an R&D project. The R&D project brings together three research centres (Science Foundation Ireland, Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical and The Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems). These three centres are trying to advance scientific research in the…