ENTERPRISE IRELAND

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ENTERPRISE IRELAND

• Presentation
• By
• Niall ODonnellan
• Head Policy and Planning
• Enterprise Ireland

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Strategic Change in Action

• Policy Context
• Strategic Context
• Role of EI

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Policy Context
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Evolution of Industrial Policy

• 1930s/1940s - protectionism
• 1950s/1960s - Opening Up
• 1970s - Collapse of indigenous
• Telesis - Renewal of faith
• Culliton (1992)
• 1994 - Forbairt
• 1998 - Enterprise Ireland
• 2000 - Globalising

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Strategic Context
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Renaissance of Indigenous Industry
1990s/2000s

• Substantial Growth
• Exports 8/9 Annual
• Jobs 4-6000 Net Annual Change
• RD Expenditure Doubled
• Sectoral Change
• Indigenous Software
• Electronics
• Consumer Food
• Clothing
• Structural Change
• Serial Entrepreneurs
• VC Industry
• Irish MNCs
• Global Approach

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Examples

• Technology growth/start-up companies
• Iona
• Lake Communications
• Performix
• Industrial/consumer product companies
• Waterford Stanley
• ONeills
• Waterford Glass
• Food/natural resource companies
• Rye Valley
• Kerry Group
• Abbott

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EXPORTS 2000
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Job Losses
Net Change
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Irish-Owned Industry needs considerable
development..

• Scale
• Over 90 of companies employ less than 250
• Productivity
• e.g. Irish-owned lower than UK in most sectors
• Export Propensity
• Research Development
• HR Development
• e.g. 1.7 OTJ training days v 5 best practice

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Developing locally-controlled businesses

• Is important to achieve balanced and
  complementary industrial development
• Is achieved by a combination of
• improved environment
• focused services/targeted finance
• Needs to focus on
• encouraging companies up the value added path
• building up scale and improving productivity
• Needs to result in higher incomes and better jobs.

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ROLE OF EI
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Mission Statement

• Enterprise Ireland accelerating Irelands
  national and regional development by working with
  Irish companies to develop and compete, so that
  they can grow in world markets

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The client base of Enterprise Ireland will be
comprised of companies which are Irish based and
whose growth and development can be enhanced
through working with Enterprise Ireland DETE
Policy Statement

• Irish-owned employing 10 3,100
• Irish-owned emerging start-ups 300
• Natural Resources
  100
• TOTAL EI CLIENTS 3,500

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Enterprise Ireland

• Range of services
• Company development
• Marketing
• Technology
• HRD
• Regional and sectoral development
• College RD
• Resources
• 23 overseas offices
• 8 regional offices
• Staff 900
• Budget 2001 Euro 290m.

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Capacity to Influence in an integrated way the
Value-Added Chain
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Shift to Knowledge
Sectoral Groups
Direct to Firm
Business Infrastructure
Networks Local/ Global
New Sectors
Money
Knowledge
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