Tyler Falk has a
SmartPlanet article about
Elon Musk advising the Irish:
It’s been a good year for Elon Musk (photo). His company, Tesla, is having a breakout season. He unveiled his idea for a potentially game-changing transportation system. And he’s being discussed as the world’s “greatest living inventor.” Now, he’s giving advice to world leaders.
As Bloomberg reports in an article by Mark Millan, Musk was recently on a panel with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, during which Kenny asked Musk what he would do if he were the leader of Ireland. Musk’s idea: free schooling for engineers.
Musk suggested Ireland should help midsize companies acquire funding and to somehow cultivate a high concentration of talent. Then, the Tesla Motors and Space Exploration Technologies co-founder paused, and said he should avoid speaking in “platitudes”.
“For a technology company, you need engineers,” Musk said. “Maybe engineering could be tuition-free or something like that.” One caveat is that 'they’ve got to stay in Ireland'.
That might be a difficult proposition for a country which was one of the worst hit by the Great Recession. But with the economy slowly turning around, maybe it’s time to start considering the idea.
Rico says the
Irish Development Authority has done a great job of getting companies to move there (including Apple, which is why
Rico got to go there so many times and meet such great people); maybe they can figure out a way to get engineers to graduate and
stay there...
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