| | Bell Labs to establish major research and development centre in Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Ireland is set to become a world-leading location for research into engineering, manufacturing and value-chain technologies in the telecommunications sector as a result of a 69 million investment programme agreed between Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, IDA Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland. |
 | | Seán Dorgan, CEO of IDA Ireland said: "As technology development and manufacturing becomes ever more complex, competitive advantage will go to those economies and locations that are centres of innovation and design, and the arrival of Bell Labs offers Ireland the opportunity of becoming one of these seats of power." |
 | | "Ireland is at the heart of Lucent's European supply chain operations, and the company currently employs 500 in Ireland as part of the approximately 5,000 employees in its operations across all of the major European countries," Dr Jaffe added. |
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