provide a framework in which we bring the skills of the future into today†s workplace.
Partnership and Workplace Innovation 29 10 Competition and Better Regulation 31 Conclusion 33 Innovation in Ireland 2008 Innovation in Ireland 2008 1 Ireland is recognised internationally as a stable
including the development of new or enhanced products and services and the introduction of new business models, new organisational structures or new work practices.
and it is expected to identify further measures that will entice leading foreign researchers to work in Ireland.
It also works with companies to raise their awareness of the importance of R&d in the sustainability of the enterprise,
It works closely with the research institutions to ensure that intellectual property arising from publicly funded research is protected
and employers to increase levels of workplace learning and upskilling. Lifelong learning Education and training can no longer be seen as a phase that individuals go through before their career starts;
non formal, workplace and community settings, and is designed to ensure access, transfer and progression for learners.
provides a testing ground for new ways of integrating marginalised groups into the workplace and of upskilling those already in employment.
and it works closely with several County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBS) to raise awareness of IP issues among entrepreneurial start-up companies.
National Workplace Strategy Social partnership fosters innovative activities and practices to ensure the continuing transformation of the workplace in Ireland.
a National Workplace Strategy is a blueprint by the National Centre for Partnership and Performance (NCPP) aiming to transform Irish workplaces.
The Strategy takes a coherent and integrated approach to workplace development and focuses on actions to stimulate workplace change and innovation, within a social partnership environment.
The key message of the National Workplace Strategy is that the quality of Irish workplaces is critical to Ireland†s transition into an even more dynamic, highly skilled, innovative and knowledge-based economy.
In particular, the Strategy identifies the need for more organisational innovation and related improvements in workplace cultures to complement
and service ongoing innovation in products and processes. The future of work Partnership and Workplace Innovation Innovation in Ireland 2008 30 Workplace Innovation Fund The Workplace Innovation Fund helps companies build a stronger commitment to workplace innovation.
It is administered by Enterprise Ireland in collaboration with the NCPP and has three main strands: A public awareness campaign:
The National Centre for Partnership and Performance aims to bring the concept and practice of workplace innovation to a wider national audience.
Support for capacity building: This aims to enhance the capacity of the social partners to build a stronger commitment to workplace innovation and change.
Promotion of innovation at enterprise level: This focuses on companies who are seeking to leverage workplace innovation to improve their competitiveness and productivity.
The Workplace Innovation Fund is a unique opportunity for SMES to receive financial support for projects seeking to develop partnership and participation within the workplace leading to productivity improvements, improved performance and employee well-being.
This positive approach to the management of innovative change through partnership builds on over twenty years of experience that will equip Irish workplaces to deal with future challenges.
Innovation in Ireland 2008 31 Competition fuels innovation The pressure to be competitive drives innovation across the range of business practice;
One of the reasons for its arrival has been the out-sourcing of standardised production from high-to low-labour-cost countries
This is what is seen now generally by economists to be the major factor behind the bulk of economic growth, the growth that is not due to additions to capital and labour stocks.
The implementation of new organisational methods in firms†business practices, workplace organisation and external relations can have substantial impacts on firms†competitiveness
For example, it may involve SMES in tracking competitors†actions through electronic monitoring of news and information services or the introduction of total quality management techniques on the work floor.
workplace organisation and marketing (OECD, 2010a, forthcoming. Another issue is that whereas technological innovation tends to be associated more with manufacturing,
Furthermore, some empirical work casts doubt on a general characterisation of small firms as breakthrough innovators and large firms as incremental innovators (Chandy and Tellis, 2000.
but also through informal methods such as the creation of problem-solving work teams and engagement with external knowledge intensive service activity providers such as consultants (OECD, 2010a, forthcoming).
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION Â OECD 2010 41 example through embedding of foreign direct investment, attraction of highly-skilled labour from overseas and building cross-national SME alliances.
UK public policy and open innovation Charles Levy and Benjamin Reid September 2011 The Big Innovation Centre is an initiative of The Work Foundation and Lancaster University.
a major initiative from The Work Foundation and Lancaster University, will examine how the UK can position itself to be a major global innovation hub in 2025.
Open innovation and its implications will be a key theme informing all the Centre†s areas of work. 4 Missing an open goal?
and investigation undertaken by the Big Innovation Centre, a groundbreaking new initiative from The Work Foundation and Lancaster University.
which the airline works with its suppliers to promote innovation, which often saves KLM money in the long term.
The Work Foundation, http://www. theworkfoundation. com/research/publications/publicationdetail. aspx? oitemid=290 21 Missing an open goal?
In reality, the blanket mandating of openness (or closedness) doesn†t work: university activities to support development of innovation,
there are fundamental and systemic issues with how such markets for knowledge and knowledge enterprises work.
The Work Foundation and Research Republic, http://www. theworkfoundation. com/research/publications/publicationdetail. aspx? oitemid=223 23 National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (2010) Open innovation:
†The new division of labour between industry, government and academia will witness less basic research inquiry being conducted inside corporate research laboratories.
As The Work Foundation outlined in a recent report to the Independent Commission on Banking,
Many organisations at this scale appear to struggle to draw value from the knowledge that leaves their organisations.
A submission from The Work Foundation to the Independent Commission on Banking, London: the Work Foundation 31 See, for example, Clausen, T. and Rasmussen, E. 2011) †Open innovation policy through intermediaries:
the industry incubator programme in Norwayâ€, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Vol. 23, No. 1: 75-85 37 Missing an open goal?
As noted within the recent Work Foundation report on high-growth businesses, overcoming systematic weaknesses in UK management
but as we argued in a recent Work Foundation†s report, this sector needs continued support and investment,
along with a steady increase in the supply of highly skilled labour. 33 32 Levy, C.,Lee, N. and Peate, A. 2011) Ready, Steady, Grow?
The Work Foundation 33 Sissons, A. 2011) Britain†s Quiet Success Story: Business Services in the Knowledge Economyâ€, London:
the Work Foundation, http://www. theworkfoundation. com/research/publications/publicationdetail. aspx? oitemid=287 38 Missing an open goal?
The Big Innovation Centre, a major new initiative from The Work Foundation and Lancaster University, will be driving forward this analysis and commentary.
The Work Foundation and Research Republic, http://www. theworkfoundation. com/research/publications/publicationdetail. aspx? oitemid=223 42 Missing an open goal?
The Work Foundation, http://www. theworkfoundation. com/research/publications/publicationdetail. aspx? oitemid=290 Lichtenthaler, U. 2011) †Is open innovation a field of study or a communication barrier to theory development?
The Work Foundation, http://www. theworkfoundation. com/research/publications/publicationdetail. aspx? oitemid=287 Tidd, J.,Bessant, J. and Pavitt, K. 2005) Managing Innovation:
UK Public policy and open innovation Acknowledgements This report is a publication from the Big Innovation Centre, an initiative from The Work Foundation and Lancaster University.
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NPRF) FORFÃ S EVALUATION OF ENTERPRISE SUPPORTS FOR START-UPS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP 15 Work with the private sector to ensure the availability of funding from other sources for key sectors that are not appropriate for venture capital investment.
and leaves little scope to make any material savings. Accordingly it is recommended that the level of resources devoted to SYOB supports through the CEBS be maintained at least;
Research by the OECD shows a positive correlation between the entry rate in a given industry and average labour productivity levels37,
and is scheduled for completion Oct/Nov 2012 22 industry and average labour productivity levels. This should be borne in mind in terms of resource allocation to entrepreneurship programmes.
Growth and Scaling Divisions work with the client to achieve â 1m, â 3m and â 5m, â 20m,
28,001, 699 The HPSU team works closely with the Investment Services Division of Enterprise Ireland to identify suitable third party funding for start-up companies.
and the Enterprise Ireland overseas team works closely with companies to achieve another major milestone, getting to â 1m in sales. 2. 8 Impacts & Outcomes Turnover Total turnover for all
This evaluation builds on the work completed by Grant in order to provide findings and conclusions on the appropriateness,
They arrange the speakers and facilitators for each of the events and work with the Higher education Institutes
The OECD has established that a large fraction of aggregate labour productivity growth is driven by what happens in each individual firm,
Business Planning Development, Financial Planning and Management, Bookkeeping, HR Management, Market research & Promotion, Business & Employment law, Time Management & Life Work Balance, Sales and Marketing
, Taxation, Website development, Time Management & Life Work Balance, Personal Effectiveness and Leadership Management 130 half-day involvement covering basic skills or information
profit and tax benefits should be reckoned in the context of tight labour markets135. Based on an average earned income of â 39,000 the annual value of these benefits is estimated at between â 12 million
In particular, because of reduced employment levels, labour productivity has shown a significant increase across a range of efficiency indicators.
leaves little scope to make any material savings. Accordingly, it is recommended that the level of resources devoted to SYOB supports through the CEBS be maintained at least;
and 3 other Enterprise Ireland staff making up the Propel Team Representative sample of Enterprise Ireland staff who work with HPSU/Cord
and 1 participant was on maternity leave. 23 participants completed the survey therefore a 92 per cent response rate was achieved.
The Gateway2investment programme works with entrepreneurs and/or researchers in high technology sectors that are seed past the stage and
The Regional Attention and Action for Knowledge Circulation programme works to improve interaction and exchanges between SMES
Accordingly, they may have to work in several consecutive steps, which in some cases look like a bootstrapping strategy.
and were thus more expensive when manufactured in countries with high-labour costs. A designer working at one of the bicycle manufacturers became a critical link.
his experience during the hospitalisation is the central concept around which the consortium works. The Patient Room of the Future is the result of intensive research into the needs of the medical world and the patients themselves.
In 1990, Paul Dingens started a glass works company that produced its own line of glass instruments.
who complained that they only could do real nursing work during 50%of their working time.
If your partner leaves the company or secures another position, the joint project may stop
Disciplining disloyal partners only works under certain circumstances. First, a strong leader must operate in the network,
Second, disciplining or excluding partners only works if the innovation network is instrumental in creating a competitive advantage for the companies involved.
Because partners in such an innovation network work in a mutually exclusive way, innovation networks can work only when there is a network-wide understanding among partners that upstream partners cannot misuse this exclusivity to earn monopoly rents
Some of the networks work with open books to ensure that all partners involved use fair overhead costs
and are eager to work with the venture. Finally, Toine also had to license the technology from DSM.
He detected that the existing turbo-fryers on the market did not work and his simple adaptation to the air-flow made air frying quite effective.
or lose it strategyâ€. o Licensing to small firms implies significant work in return for small licensing revenues.
and the work toward a win-win outcome. Let your partner pursue business opportunities in areas that do not fit your business model.
What works is a vision, not a dream. In most cases, the vision can be considered as a new value proposition,
What Governments Can Do to Make a Difference (2010). 7 12 The entire community works within a wider set of framework conditions defined by policy makers
or a new organizational method in business practices, workplace organization, or external relations. †4 Innovations can arise at many different points in the development process,
and a responsibility to each of us to create work and to support each other. No one should get a free ride
while making participation in these programmes more tax efficient for employees. •Allow youth to participate in a new work experience programme,
The self-employed typically sell their labour to perform a set of tasks, and if they don†t please the customer,
Entrepreneurs create functioning organisations that continue to generate value even if the entrepreneur themself leaves the business.
We present the ideas in this document as a starting point for further work, and hope that it will lead to enhanced economic activity, increased numbers of startups and increased engagement by all groups in the entrepreneurial arena.
We encourage our children to work in †guaranteed secure†jobs in high-paying areas like the public sector, in multinational corporations or in the professional services fields (eg. accountants, lawyers, doctors.
that†s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization workâ€--Vince Lombardiâ€oe â€oe concepts that are covered in the book are highlighted also in this report.
Indeed there is now a growing acceptance in Ireland of the need to build work-related skills at an early age.
Innovative enterprises require a pool of work-aware school leavers. There is an immediate need to introduce modules, courses bootcamps,
and works with educators and teachers to introduce entrepreneurial concepts to students. Bizworld currently partners with schools in Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow, Galway, Cork and Limerick.
In an ever-changing technological world, children should be exposed to a broad range of ICT skills to understand their application in the workplace.
--Paul Tournier â€oe recommendations â€oe recommendations 2. 3. 1 Unemployed The Back to Work Enterprise Allowance, administered by the Department of Social Protection,
Firstly, the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance is only attainable if you have been on the †Live Register†for 12 months.
The Forum believes that addressing these issues would do much to enhance the entrepreneurial contribution of this section of society. 6. Reduce the time required to be on the Live Register before being eligible for the Back to Work Enterprise allowance. 7. Cut the waiting
time for appointments for unemployed people seeking approval for access to the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance. 8. Improve the payments system for entrepreneurs†grants for unemployed people trying to start a business.
indicating a need for further targeted work. Championing woman business leaders as role models will play a key role in increasing the numbers of female entrepreneurs.
Female entrepreneurs have difficulty taking full maternity leave, given the demanding nature of entrepreneurial business.
Greater flexibility in which a parent avails of the maternity leave scheme will allow parents to share in a manner that best suits the needs of the female entrepreneur.
The Department of Social Protection also requires female employers to give 12 weeks of advanced notice for maternity leave,
The maternity leave scheme should be amended to enable a woman to transfer a portion of her maternity leave
The qualifying weeks in terms of PRSI payments to qualify for maternity leave should be the same for female entrepreneurs as for female employees
Our recommendations complement existing work being done to address this critical situation. The Forum recognises that countries such as Germany with low rates of youth unemployment have excellent apprenticeship systems
How does †Office hours†work? †Office hours†can be arranged in multiple ways. One Forum member has Saturday Skype calls of 15 minutes length between 11am
LEOS could seek volunteer entrepreneurs through the Chambers of Commerce or other networks to work as mentors to startup founders.
or others to work as â€oebuddy mentors†to startup promoters. b. Agencies to facilitate an initiative among large companies to allow staff to volunteer to go into star tups, g iv ing specif ic
and willing to work in exciting new startups. •The irish Trade Board. Cà ras Trã¡
To enhance the wealth of work already done in this space, the Forum proposes that further private sector involvement in accelerators would be a huge support for the startup ecosystem. 26.
Some people parallel the growing popularity of co-working spaces to the popularisation of coffee spots with free Internet such as Starbucks. These locations led to a †lightbulb†moment for many who recognised that highly productive work
a. develop a co-working model that will work in Ireland, to include leveraging unused public buildings and NAMA buildings;
and academia to work more closely together to build strong working relat ionships and simultaneously increase direct commercialisation of research work.
Introduce a Framework for companies to provide contracts to university graduate students for thesis work without clouding IP ownership. 34.
(having industry partners ensures that the work will have commercial impact. 36. Engagement without IP licensing requirements.
many of our most able and educated minds never gain understanding of how to commercialise their work.
a programme that allows those who are receiving benefits on the Live Register to work for companies in Ireland for up to a period of 9 months while receiving their job seeker†s allowance plus â 50 per week
Furthermore, graduates seeking work experience are excluded from participating in the Jobbridge Programme if they already have part-time evening or weekend employment.
giving them the real work experience that is generally sought by employers. We believe that formalising a programme to enable youth to develop work skills would benefit youth, employers and the economy as a whole.
Therefore the Forum recommends that companies should be allowed to offer work placements to youth (those without work experience,
either out of 2nd level or 3rd level) for up to 9 months for training level pay (same rate as Jobbridge,
Allow youth to participate in a new work experience programme, based on the rate of pay of the Jobbridge Programme, perhaps called â€oejobbridge Corporateâ€,
More work was envisaged in automating this process further34 to provide certainty to the employer and to the employee that the visa could be issued in a matter of two weeks
We acknowledge the great work of the thousands of public sector staff who have only the best intentions to help business succeed in Ireland.
and agreeing upon work plans and outcomes, •Connector †ensures that departments and agencies within government are informed
Where an entrepreneurially inclined employee leaves employment, the current structure of the Jobseeker†s Benefit system encourages them to remain on Jobseeker†s Benefit for the full six/nine month Jobseeker†s Benefit
High taxes discourage work, savings, investment, risk-taking and enterprise and therefore are neither efficient nor conducive to increasing strong economic growth.
and forcing businesses to import products from abroad or outsource their work to other countries.
or more entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial volunteers for â€oemeritorious service†to Ireland. 2. 3. 1 Unemployed 6. Reduce the time required to be on the Live Register before being eligible for the Back to Work Enterprise allowance. 7
. Cut the waiting time for appointments for unemployed people seeking approval for access to the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance. 8. Improve the payments system for entrepreneurs†grants for unemployed people
The maternity leave scheme should be amended to enable a woman to transfer a portion of her maternity leave
The qualifying weeks in terms of PRSI payments to qualify for maternity leave should be the same for female entrepreneurs as for female employees
or others to work as â€oebuddy mentors†to startup promoters. b. Agencies to facilitate an initiative among large companies to allow staff to volunteer to go into star tups, g iv ing specif ic
a. develop a co-working model that will work in Ireland, to include leveraging unused public buildings and NAMA buildings;
Introduce a Framework for companies to provide contracts to university graduate students for thesis work without clouding IP ownership. 34.
having industry partners ensures that the work will have commercial impact. 36. Engagement without IP licensing requirements.
Allow youth to participate in a new work experience programme, based on the rate of pay of the Jobbridge Programme, perhaps called â€oejobbridge Corporateâ€,
Work Foundation. Lundstrom, A. 2011) Entrepreneurship and SME Policies across Europe Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Reports Entrepreneurship at a Glance (2013) Education at a Glance (2011) Entrepreneurship Review
I would like to publicly thank all concerned for their input in this work. The challenge is now to deliver and
Building on the work done by Sean O†Sullivan and the Entrepreneurship Forum this Policy Statement presents the six overarching elements
There has been wide stakeholder engagement over the last two years to support the development of this Policy Statement through public consultation, the work of the Entrepreneurship Forum and direct contact with academics and entrepreneurs.
and work with its partners in enterprise to achieve this ambition. 3 †Entrepreneurship in Ireland-Strengthening the Startup Communityâ€, 2014,
The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2013 ranked Ireland third for availability of skilled labour and first for flexibility and adaptability of workforce, attitudes to globalisation and investment incentives.
and to create the jobs and workplaces of tomorrow. From the GEDI pillar comparison on page 17
Much work is being undertaken by the Government to promote entrepreneurial role models, foster positive attitudes to risk taking, teach basic business management and financial literacy and address skills gaps.
and there are many examples of good work being undertaken in many schools at transition year in mini-company formation
and adults in the acquisition of skills that are needed in the workplace is a key objective of this reform process.
DES) Work with education stakeholders across the education system to identify best practice and to mainstream successful programmes wherever feasible.
EI, LEOS) Work with other award giving initiatives to increase public awareness of entrepreneurship successes. DJEI, EI) Develop new measures within the Gaeltacht to recognise local entrepreneurs, building
and run their own business Work with the Department of Social Protection to promote the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance,
Ongoing focused work will be required in such policy areas as access to finance, tax, reward for risk, administrative and regulatory burdens, exporting,
ilte Ireland will continue to work to identify and exploit opportunities for convergence between tourism and other areas of enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Availability of talent Low rate of corporate tax Availability of R&d tax credits Low rates of non-wage add-ons to labour costs Ease of establishing an enterprise Flexible labour Some less well known strengths are:
Work has started already in making improvements in many of these areas. The suite of tax policies that affect entrepreneurs is being reviewed.
The Department of Social Protection provides support for unemployed people to start a business in the form of the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance.
financial assistance through Jobs Plus and a range of workplace support schemes to support employers who employ a person with a disability.
This work and its contribution towards self employment is set out in detail in the Pobal report â€oesupporting Inclusion through Self employment. †In the main,
this work has been undertaken by Local Development Companies, who are supported via the assistance of the Department of Social Protection Back to Work Enterprise Allowance (BTWEA) scheme.
It is clear that an integrated approach is needed which combines the full range of services in supporting the development of an entrepreneurial culture in Ireland.
National Policy Statement on Entrepreneurship in Ireland 27 2. 1. 3 Share Based Remuneration In private Companies Share based employee remuneration can significantly reduce fixed labour costs
Work will continue to drive efficiencies in many of the necessary interactions of new businesses with the State e g. turnaround time for work permits,
in an integrated way of the supports across government Opportunities to work with other stakeholders to develop hubs for entrepreneurship
A cross-border approach to entrepreneurship offers an opportunity for the entrepreneur to access resources such as capital, labour and technology that can spark new ideas.
competition The work of Intertrade Ireland, which is funded co by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, is designed to build capacity
EI, LEOS) Initiatives will be developed at local and regional levels to encourage business to work with LEOS
à nag) Work with all supported enterprise centres (CECS, BICS etc. to set out ambitions for the cultivation of startups
Enterprise Ireland works with entrepreneurs and innovative startups at all stages of growth partnering with the LEOS,
the universities and the Institutes of Technology to bring together the State†s support structures in a way that works for the entrepreneur.
Work will also continue to ensure a strengthening of the linkages between SME capability building, advice and access to finance.
SBCI, D/Finance) Drawing on international good practice, the Department of Finance will continue to work with banks to improve their internal review mechanisms
Bord Bia, Management Works Skillnet, CEB Accelerate Programme) 10. To further facilitate the development of mentoring for SMES and start ups
National Policy Statement on Entrepreneurship in Ireland46 5. 3. 2 Accelerators In response to the popularity and demand for accelerators among startups, work will also be undertaken on developing
EI) Work with enterprise and the wider communities and public authorities to develop new sources of co working spaces and â€oehotspotsâ€.
Projects involved a minimum of five companies working together to undertake feasibility work and to conduct market research.
evidence based case for the viability of their proposed solution (for example a desk based feasibility study with some supporting practical work/data).
and continue to work to attract international buyers to Ireland to source Irish goods and services.
Tracking Action Delivery Considerable work has been undertaken in recent years to support entrepreneurs and startups and the actions identified in this Statement will strengthen existing supports.
and will be supplemented as work is undertaken on each objective area. Benchmarking/Measuring Entrepreneurship A comprehensive profile analysis of the national entrepreneurship ecosystem in Ireland will assess current national performance against international comparators.
â 506,000 approved (2, 892 individual visits) Work with DJEI and other stakeholders to implement the recommendations of the Forfã¡
â 506,000 approved (2, 892 individual visits) Work with DJEI and other stakeholders to implement the recommendations of the Forfã¡
and work will commence to define the sectoral and stage of development focus of those calls for expressions of interest in the near term.
and work will commence to define the sectoral and stage of development focus of those calls for expressions of interest in the near term.
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