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ENTERPRISE IRELAND
Presentation
By
Niall O’Donnellan
Head Policy and Planning
Enterprise Ireland
www.enterprise-ireland.com
Strategic Change in Action
 Policy Context
 Strategic Context
 Role of EI
Policy Context
Evolution of Industrial Policy
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1930’s/1940’s - protectionism
1950’s/1960’s - Opening Up
1970’s
- Collapse of indigenous
Telesis
- Renewal of faith
Culliton (1992)
1994
- Forbairt
1998
- Enterprise Ireland
2000+
- Globalising
Strategic Context
Renaissance of Indigenous
Industry 1990s/2000s
 Substantial Growth
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Exports +8/9% Annual
Jobs 4-6000 Net Annual Change
R&D Expenditure Doubled
 Sectoral Change
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Indigenous Software
Electronics
Consumer Food
Clothing
 Structural Change
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Serial Entrepreneurs
VC Industry
Irish MNCs
Global Approach
Examples
 Technology growth/start-up companies
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Iona
Lake Communications
Performix
 Industrial/consumer product companies
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Waterford Stanley
O’Neills
Waterford Glass
 Food/natural resource companies
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Rye Valley
Kerry Group
Abbott
EXPORTS 2000
Software and International Services
Industrial Products
Consumer Products
Food/Natural Resources
TOTAL
Continental Europe
Britain & N. Ireland
Americas
Asia/Rest of World
€ Million
Growth 99/00
1,402
2,193
651
6,719
36.0%
18.1%
8.0%
10.4%
10,120
14.5%
2,938
4,464
1,461
1,256
17.6%
10.4%
25.7%
18.2%
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Irish-Owned Manufacturing and
International Services
Employment 1988 - 2001
20000
Job Gains
15000
Job Losses
10000
Job
losses
5000
Net Change
19
88
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90
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91
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-5000
Job gains
Net
change
Irish-Owned Industry needs considerable
development……..
 Scale
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Over 90% of companies employ less than 250
 Productivity
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e.g. Irish-owned lower than UK in most sectors
 Export Propensity
 Research & Development
 HR Development
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e.g. 1.7 OTJ training days v 5 best practice
Developing locally-controlled businesses
 Is important to achieve balanced and complementary
industrial development
 Is achieved by a combination of
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improved environment
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focused services/targeted finance
 Needs to focus on
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encouraging companies up the value added path
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building up scale and improving productivity
 Needs to result in higher incomes and better jobs.
ROLE OF EI
Mission Statement
 Enterprise Ireland … accelerating Ireland’s national and regional
development by working with Irish companies to develop and
compete, so that they can grow in world markets
“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”
DET&E Policy Statement
 Irish-owned employing 10+
 Irish-owned emerging start-ups
 Natural Resources
3,100
300
100
 TOTAL EI CLIENTS
3,500
Enterprise Ireland
 Range of services
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Company development
Marketing
Technology
HRD
Regional and sectoral development
College R+D
 Resources
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23 overseas offices
8 regional offices
Staff 900+
Budget 2001 Euro 290m.
Science,
Innovation
&
Corporate Services
Investment
Services
& Regional
Development
Food,
Consumer,
Britain
& Development
Industrial
Products
&
Europe
International
Services,
America &
Asia
Technology
Services
Capacity to Influence in an integrated way
the Value-Added Chain
Strategy
R&D
Finance
HR
Production Marketing
Shift to Knowledge
Sectoral
Groups
Direct to
Firm
Networks
Local/
Global
Business
Infrastructure
New Sectors
Money
Knowledge