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Irish tidal energy technology company, OpenHydro, has been honoured at the 2011 Ireland  France Business Awards for their outstanding company performance in 2011 and promotion of bilateral trade and investment between Ireland and France.  At an awards ceremony held in Paris, OpenHydro was selected as The Best Irish Company in France owing to its major technological breakthrough in the area of tidal technology, while in the process linking up with two major French companies, EDF and DCNS.

The Science Gallery on Pearse Street is becoming an enterprise hub for the day on December 9th as plans for 'Your Business Day 2011' were announced for the capital. A day-long programme of free business seminars, business mentoring clinics and exhibition displays in addition to expert advice and information is on offer at the Science Gallery on Pearse Street that day, from 9am to 5pm.

Until Christmas Eve, THE DESIGN CORNER on George's Street in Dún Laoghaire will be home to the work of twenty-two craftspeople and designers from the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown region, giving the local creative sector a welcome boost. Park House on George's Street in Dún Laoghaire, opposite the entrance to People's Park, is where the THE DESIGN CORNER will be opening its doors to the public every day between now and December 24th.

Christmas came early at Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) on the 1st December when more than 200 students demonstrated their entrepreneurial skills to members of the local community, fellow students and staff from the College. The Christmas Market event at the Moylish Park Campus forms part of MarketLink Entrepreneur, a multidisciplinary careers, innovation and entrepreneurship programme for students at LIT. 

NovaUCD will showcase 15 new high-tech and knowledge-intensive ventures emerging from University College Dublin (UCD) research programmes during its annual start-up awards evening next week. Among the ventures to be showcased are AntTweeter and Phision Therapeutics. AntTweeter is developing a location-based, socially-driven question and answering service which utilises the power of twitter to disseminate questions and answers to a wide community. Phision Therapeutics has identified novel small molecule anti-angiogenic compounds that can be used as drugs to inhibit the formation of unwanted blood vessels associated with ophthalmic diseases and cancer.

November is “Business Month” at the County Library Tallaght - a new, up to the minute Business Collection is being launched, along with an exciting programme of events promoting library services to businesses - including FREE online business resources such as Lexis Nexis and Vision-Net. The launch of Business Month takes place on Thursday November 10^th at 6:30pm with Mayor Caitriona Jones and guest of honour Justin Keatinge of Version 1 (www.version1.com), recently shortlisted for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.