EU Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn
According to Professor MacCraith, “The
Innovation Campus, which will draw on our
joint research expertise, will become a focused,
internationally recognised hub for cleantech
businesses and is an exciting and natural next step in
our vision to become a University of Enterprise.”
The Green Way has a vision to play a major role in
developing Ireland as a global centre and leader in
cleantech. This is the right time for universities,
businesses and enterprise to come together to
make this vision a reality. The Green Way will
promote the Dublin city region as an internationally
recognised Green Economic Zone and the first of
its kind in Ireland. It will provide investment and
job creation and ultimately play a significant part in
the economic recovery and transformation of the
country.
There are a number of exciting key projects already
underway within The Green Way, including an
Energy Product Innovation Centre (EPIC) at
Dublin airport in partnership with University of
Houston, an Environmental Health Sciences
Institute in DIT, the aforementioned Green
Innovation Campus in DCU and the Rediscovery
Centre in Ballymun. During 2011 the team will
be seeking to develop a Cleantech Competence
Centre in partnership with industry as well as
joining forces with the Green IFSC project
promoters to establish Dublin as a centre of
excellence for carbon management.
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EU Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn’s
closing remarks at the laun ch of The Green Way
were highly appropriate when she asked,
“Why shouldn’t Ireland, the country of forty shades
of green, become a cleantech hub, with forty shades
of innovation?
I know that Irish people are among the most
resourceful, dynamic and creative in the world,
and I am confident that Ireland will seek out and
capitalise on opportunities to build a new economy.
An economy built on innovation”.