Photonics may not be a word in common parlance just yet, but its effects will soon impact upon numerous aspects of our everyday lives.

The €4.7m European Union ASCENT programme, led by Tyndall National Institute, UCC, has reached the milestone of delivering 100 nanoelectronics projects to researchers from 30 countries over the last four years.

Up to 100 new research posts will be created at Tyndall National Institute in Cork as part of a €20m investment into so-called "disruptive technologies".

MaREI marine research institute, in UCC, is hosting an event entitled ‘Collaboration Opportunities for a Thriving Maritime Economy’ on Thursday, May 2, in the UCC Centre for Executive Education, 1 Lapps Quay, Cork.

The future role of technology agri-business is to be discussed in depth at ‘AgTech – The Future of Sustainable Agricultural Business’ in Fota Island Resort, Cork, on Wednesday, March 6.

Founders of outsourcing firm Voxpro, Dan and Linda Kiely, have been named joint ‘Tech Person of the Year’ at the IT@Cork Awards.

IT@Cork, the voluntary group which represents more than 200 companies working within tech in the Cork region, has launched its annual Leaders Awards.

Headline acts Jack L, Hudson Taylor, Celine Byrne, and Paul Brady will showcase their talents this summer in a spectacular outdoor theatre where an exhausted limestone quarry was once used as a public dump.

With a 63% increase in employment in the last five years, and 13,000 workers currently employed in 61 IDA-supported companies, Cork is positioning itself as a city of tech supremacy.

More than 160 University College Cork employees earned average payouts of €3,400 for contributions to a campus tech firm that sold to a Facebook subsidiary.

A new website offering interactive, live data on many aspects of Cork City and county launches today.

University College Cork is to re-advertise the top job at a leading research institute after an international recruitment exercise failed to fill the €180,000-a-year role.

A new tourist train is set to roll through the streets of Cork city from next month, thanks to a €100,000 public investment which includes a €10,000 grant to cover large insurance costs.

Researchers are developing sensors to track how guide dogs react to potentially stressful situations, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

Revenues at Tyndall National Institute research centre remained largely flat last year at €31.6m despite a significant increase in industry funding.

Global computer giant Intel has renewed a $1.5m research partnership with the Tyndall National Institute, in Cork. They will develop the electronic devices of tomorrow.

Irish researchers have made an electronics breakthrough which will help improve future space exploration missions.

Irish and Dutch researchers have developed the world’s first “smart dressing” set to revolutionise wound care.

Senior government officials in China’s economic powerhouse Shanghai have hailed their city’s twinning link with Cork as one of their most successful.

The Mayor of Shanghai said his city is open to forging new cultural, technological, and research links across Ireland following the success of his city’s twinning link with Cork.

Teenagers are being encouraged to tinker with technology as part of an initiative poised to sweep the world.

Many companies are already benefitting from their work with enterprise support agencies - these are their stories.

Here’s a quick summary of some of the events that you could go along to during the Startup Gathering in the coming week.

Declan O’Mahoney, Tyndall National Institute entrepreneur in residence

Staff at University College Cork’s main campus could go on strike in September in support of colleagues at a research centre in a long-running pay equality dispute.

Industrial action over pay parity at a UCC research centre could be extended to the main campus as the row rumbles on with no sign of resolution.

University College Cork has secured a High Court injunction preventing planned pickets at some entrances to the college’s main campus tomorrow by employees of Tyndall National Institute in a dispute over pay.

The High Court will rule on Monday on University College Cork’s application for an injunction preventing picketing at some entrances to the main campus next week by employees of a research institute.

The IT sector’s representative body in the south of the country, it@Cork, has submitted an application to the Government seeking funding for an initiative that could create 1,300 jobs over the coming years.

With many staff on UCC’s main campus doing work directly comparable to his, Donal O’Sullivan expected a recent evaluation of his job at Tyndall National Institute to see him earn a pay rise of 10% to 15%.

Students at University College Cork want assurances that library and other services will not be hit by a strike during exams next week.

Staff at Cork’s prestigious Tyndall Institute look set to strike again next month, in a long-running dispute over pay parity.

The Irishman was the first person to prove the dangers of greenhouse gases and the need for hygiene in medicine. As his life’s letters are published, Ailin Quinlan learns that Tyndall was a fearless ambassador for science

Tyndall National Institute, Ireland’s leading research facility based at University College Cork, is advancing at the speed of light — literally.

More than €1m could be added to the annual pay bill at University College Cork if a report on equalising pay at one of its biggest research centres is adopted.

Two of Ireland’s leading technology research centres have teamed up in the hope of landing a multimillion-euro funding support.

The UCC-affiliated Tyndall National Institute saw income slip by almost 5%, last year.

The enterprise minister announced 150 new IT jobs in Cork yesterday as the live register fell below 400,000 for the first time since May 2009.