Ireland May Be EU's 'Comeback Kid'

Bloomberg reporter John Cookson and his camera crew were in Dublin last week. While in Dublin they filmed at NovaUCD and interviewed NovaUCD client company RendezVu as part of a report entitled Ireland May Be EU's Comeback Kid which aired on Friday 29 October 2010.

In his piece John reports on Irish entrepreneurs and foreign technology firms that are are starting to draw investment back to the country helped by the skills of the local workforce.

RendezVu, an e-learning venture, has developed a next generation learning platform to provide immersive education for languages and other subjects using virtual world and gaming technologies. RendezVu was the overall winner of the 2009 David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Award and the NovaUCD 2008 Campus Company Development Programme.

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1 November 2010

For further information contact Micéal Whelan, NovaUCD, e: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie, t: +353 1 716 3712.