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Presentation to NAPD Further
Education Conference
Tom Hayes
Manager Micro Enterprise and
Small Business Division
April 15th 2015
• Enterprise Ireland partners with entrepreneurs, Irish
businesses, and the research and investment
communities to develop Ireland’s international trade,
innovation, leadership and competitiveness
• The ultimate objective is increased exports,
employment and prosperity in Ireland.
Enterprise Ireland
Who we work with…
Entrepreneurs starting
companies with an
ability to compete in
world markets
Ambitious co’s with
the ability to scale &
achieve significant
success
Manufacturing &
Internationally Traded
services companies
employing ten or more
Irish-based
food and natural resource
companies that are overseas
owned or controlled
High Potential
Start-up’s
Scaling
Established SME’s Multinationals
Potential Exporters
Established SME’s
currently focussed on the
domestic market who
have the ambition to
export
Developing links with Irish
enterprise, MNCs to support
research collaboration,
commercialisation of publicly
funded research, and access to
FP7, ESA
Research
Community
IRISH BUSINESS DELIVERS IN 2014
unprecedented level of jobs
for Ireland
+8,476 Net New Jobs Created
180,072 Total Employment
in Enterprise Ireland assisted
companies at end 2014
300,000+ Direct and indirect jobs
in the Irish economy
Irish Business Delivers:
+9%
+3% +14%
+4% +7%
+9% +19%
Exports €17bn 2013
Growth across all sectors
World-class eco-system
Proven mentors, professional advisors and International Accelerators
Funding - for all stages
• The things that made Ireland great still exist
• Doors are open for Ireland in international markets
• Irish innovation is changing the lives of ordinary people all over the world everyday
Tell stories of Irish success
• Irish software powers visitor access control points at the Houses of Parliament in London, (Irish software company TDS)
• Software developed by Saadian helps the British police to know when prisoners are being released
• Irish eye recognition software is used by the FBI at their border control points (Daon)
• Irish technology company PixAlert, protects data and identity of global corporations
• Technology developed by Trusdev, verifies identities of millions of online customers worldwide
• Technology developed by Zutec was used to build an Asset and Snagging Register in the construction of The Shard, London
First ever, solar-powered, climate-controlled
football stadium Qatar 2022 World Cup
Mercury Engineering in Dublin
Radissens Diagnostics in Cork
First to enable blood analysis aboard the
European Space Station
Irish medical device companies lead the world
in innovation, quality and performance.
Aerogen developed the world’s first aerosol
vaccination device
Positive Economic Signs
• The economy is growing again – Fastest growing economy in Europe
• Government, Banks and Utilities securing funding at market rates
• Jobs are being created again – 84,000 new jobs created
• Unemployment rate down from 15.1% to 10%
• Services sector grew at the fastest rate in 6 years last month
• New export orders grew last month for the 40th consecutive month
• Debt levels reducing
• Confidence returns particularly in tourism and retail
• Challenges still exist
Ireland’s underlying strengthsAccording to the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index…
• Ireland ranks 15th out of 185 economies in terms of ease of doing
business, making it the highest ranked euro area country, and the 4th
highest ranked country in the European Union.
According to the IMD World Competitiveness Report Ireland is….
• 1st for openness to foreign investors
• 1st for investment incentives (attractive to foreign investors)
• 1st for flexibility and adaptability of workforce
• 1st for attitudes towards globalisation
• 2nd for unit labour costs in manufacturing sector (% change)
• 3rd for availability of skilled labour
• 4th for labour productivity
• 6th for percentage of population with 3rd level education
How we helped
Irish business to deliver in 2014:
Start
• 1,000 (approx.) started with EI and LEO support
• 183 new businesses established with our financial support
• 102 were HPSUs
• 137 entrepreneurs honed their business ideas on the ‘New
Frontiers’ programme
• 11 new businesses spun-out from third level
• 10 mobile entrepreneurship projects won for Ireland
• 43 new businesses were established by ambitious business
women , 18 of them were HPSUs
• Significant progress on transition of CEBs to LEOs
• LEOs – First stop shop and key to Enterprise eco-system
• Commenced work on Regional Enterprise Strategies
• LEO
Innovate
We continued to shape and develop Ireland’s research
capabilities to meet business needs by:
• Driving the highest level of collaborations ever (871) between Irish
companies and Irish Higher Education Institutes
• Helping Ireland to achieve the highest success rate in Europe under
Horizon 2020 (in the first results under the SME funding instrument)
• Launching Knowledge Transfer Ireland
• First ever national Innovation Showcase
• Helping 25 Irish companies secure €8.5m in contracts with the European
Space Agency delivering sophisticated technologies and products
Scale
We invested in the international growth strategies of
412 Irish companies
Scale cont’d
We built in-company capability to scale:
• Worked with 600+ companies to develop their leadership
capability
• Introduced new innovations in building leadership
capability
• Platform 4 Growth
• Innovation 4 Growth
• 400+ companies benefited from Mentor Assistance
Anticipate
We helped our clients anticipate and respond to growth opportunties:
• +2 New Technology Centres to support the pharmaceutical
manufacturing and financial services sectors
• 15 Technology Centres in total across all major industry sectors
• Delivered market-led response to the research commercialisation
needs of 339 companies
• e.g. creation of 20 jobs by SQS using technology from the IVI
Technology Centre
• Continued focus on High Growth Markets
• Added new Pathfinders extending access to 55 countries
worldwide
EI Initiatives on Tech Skills
• A shortage of tech skills is ongoing challenge for tech sector
• 600 indigenous companies delivering double digit growth
• Access to top tech talent crucial to maintain growth/jobs
• Web portal - It’s happening here.ie
• Social media campaign to attract software professionals
• Single website portal to attract international technical talent
• EI input to Springboard and ICT Conversion courses
Manufacturing
• Innovative manufacturing companies in sectors such as Lifesciences,
Engineering, Cleantech and Electronics make a significant contribution
to economic growth and job creation
• Skills shortages facing manufacturing industry – Precision engineering
Programme developed in conjunction with Limerick IOT
• Similar efforts to bring together companies involved in:
- Metal Fabrication
- Tool and Mould making
- Mechanical and electrical assembly
• Technology Centres around the country to assist the growth of
manufacturing industry
Summary strategy for 2015 in relation to skills:
• Continue to identify the skills requirement of EI clients
• Influence the supply of skills at both regional and national level
• Work with companies to develop a culture of building sustainable formal and
informal relationships with their local colleges, as is done successfully by
German Mittelstand companies
• Continue to assist companies with issues in relation to Visas/Work Permits
• Ensure companies are aware of government employment programmes to
enable them to access potential employees off the Live Register
Client Management Development Programmes
• Leadership4 Growth
• Innovation4 Growth
• Platform4 Growth
• International Selling Programme
• Graduate for International Growth
• Export Ready
• Excel at Export Selling
• Finance4 Growth
• Mentoring
Global Overseas etwork
Global Office Network
North America
Boston
New York
Silicon Valley
Toronto
Texas
SEMEALA
Dubai
Madrid
Mexico
Milan
Riyadh
Sao Paulo
Johannesburg
CEERN
Budapest
Moscow
Prague
Warsaw
Stockholm
Turkey
Western Europe
Amsterdam
Brussels
Glasgow
London
Paris
Düsseldorf
Asia-Pacific
Beijing Seoul
Guangzhou Shanghai
Hong Kong Sydney
Singapore Tokyo
Kuala Lumpur
New Delhi
Thank you and happy to respond to any
questions.
Tom Hayes