Dr Declan Dagger of Trinity’s School of Computer Science and Statistics was recently announced as the winner of Enterprise Ireland’s inaugural ‘One to Watch’ award. Enterprise Ireland has commissioned the ‘One to Watch’ award to recognize researchers whose commercialisation efforts are considered to have the most business potential. Dr Dagger was presented with his award by Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Jimmy Devins at the first Enterprise Ireland Applied Research Forum in June.
Dr Dagger and his team have developed a new personalised e-learning tool to tackle the challenges presented by the fact that no two people learn the same way. A new company called Empower the User is being formed around the technology and Dr Dagger will be the CEO of the spin-out company when it launches in 2009.
Irish e-learning technology companies and the industry as a whole in Ireland has seen some excellent innovations and successes over the past 5 years. Now it looks this “Empoer the User” to be launched in 2009 is about to shake the industry up again. Empower The User is essentially an e-learning platform that delivers dynamic, personalised content. The “Empower the User” project all about empowering the user, and will have some serious benefits for companies too, as regards faster, improved training methods and lower costs.
An excellent article on the whole collage spin out industry from irish learning isntitutions is written by Gordon Smith of Silicon Republic –
