Many of the actions in this Plan build on the important work we have done since 2012, in areas such as education and skills, development of Irish industry and FDI,
Our work with the Global Irish Network and with our industry partners will continue to help identify promising actions across our economy.
Work is progressing on a national enterprise strategy and a skills strategy. A new strategy to grow the International Financial services Sector will shortly be brought to Government.
Our work in 2015 will also have a particular focus on regional development, medium-term labour market activation and welfare reform,
to ensure that work always pays, as well as strategies for a number of other specific sectors. 2015 ACTION PLAN FOR JOBS 5 This Government has worked hard to return stability to the economy and to the labour market.
The idea that our economy could put 100,000 extra people back to work by 2016 was met with questioning,
and value investment â 1st in the world for investment incentives investment â 1st in the world for availability of skilled labour labour 2nd in the Eurozone for ease of doing business business Overall,
and that we provide a great place to live and work. Delivering Regional Potential This will include the launch of Competitive Funding Initiatives of up to â 25 million to promote innovative collaborations to support entrepreneurship
To support entrepreneurship we will implement a new Food Works initiative to support startups in the regions.
Increasing Activation of the Unemployed The focus of the Pathways to Work strategy is to ensure that the increase in employment generated by the actions under this Plan translates into a reduction in the number of people dependent on jobseeker payments
and introduce a Back to Work Family Dividend. Increasing Entrepreneurial Activity The launch of the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOS) was delivered a major reform in 2014.
and this will be the focus of the work of the Apprenticeship Council over the coming years.
The Government†s initiatives under Pathways to Work to enable jobseekers get back to work are proving successful.
We need to continue to ensure that work incentives are adequate across the economy if we are to support unemployed jobseekers,
if poorly designed can make it difficult for unemployed people to return to work. The introduction of the Jobsplus scheme, the Springboard initiative, the implementation of the Momentum programme and the roll out of schemes such as Gateway
ï§Implement Pathways to Work 2015 and constituent metrics; and ï§Begin a new Jobsplus strand for young people under the Youth Guarantee.
much of Ireland†s progress during this period arose from changes in the composition of employment in Ireland during the recession (for example a collapse in the numbers employed in the labour intensive construction sector), rather than broad based productivity growth.
Similarly, the waiting time for a hearing at the Labour Court has reduced and the waiting time for a hearing at the Employment Appeals tribunal has fallen.
and to make Ireland a great place to live and work. Current Performance: Cost of Doing Business Ireland†s cost base has improved across a range of metrics over the last number of years making Irish firms more competitive internationally
Monitoring Progress and Success All of this builds on the reform and work of previous Plans.
and make sure that work always pays. A National Talent Drive that comprehensively addresses each of these aspects of talent supply will reinforce Ireland†s positive reputation globally for the quality of its people
employer input to the development of education and training provision, creating sufficient and sustainable work placement opportunities and the development of apprenticeships in new economic sectors.
and include a work placement component. There are strong employment rates for graduates of these programmes (67 per cent of graduates in employment within 6 months),
ï§Provide a great place to live and work; ï§Develop new Apprenticeships in response to proposals from key sectors of the economy.
and this will be the focus of the work of the Apprenticeship Council over the coming years;
HEIS, HEA, Employers) 7 Enhance industry input to programme content, provision of work placements and promotion of ICT programmes as part of the implementation of Skillnets ICT Conversion Programmes.
and support development of the Skills to Work brand to increase awareness of re-skilling options for jobseekers.
DES) 23 Roll out the a new account management approach to employers under Pathways to Work:
IDA) 45 Continue to work to attract Foreign Direct Investment in areas outside of Dublin and Cork.
This work involves extensive industry and academia stakeholder consultation in order to determine a future research strategy for Ireland.
IDA, EI, SFI and SEAI to work with indigenous and international enterprises across the energy value chain to develop their activities in Ireland.
work with public sector organisations with an annual energy spend of â 500,000 or more, to go to the market to identify solutions for the delivery of energy reduction services.
SBCI) 68 Work to align the revised Credit Guarantee Scheme with the operations of the SBCI.
The Pathways to Work 2015 strategy which complements the APJ process, places a particular emphasis on measures to help long-term and young unemployed people find a route back into employment.
Its measures include an enhanced version of Jobsplus specifically for young unemployed people. 2015 Actions Jobsplus 101 As part of Pathways to Work,
and recognised in terms of the monitoring of the Group†s overall work and final output. 4. 1 Effective Implementation to Maximise Benefits to SMES Given the progress that has been achieved to date,
and data and as such part of the work of the SME State Bodies group will involve engaging with commercial entities around the issue of improving the provision of data on SME lending.
A feature of the work of the SME State Bodies Group to date has been the commitment to evaluate
Part of the work of the Group in 2015 will be to support the roll out of reconfigured product offerings such as the revised Credit Guarantee Scheme and the simplified operation of the Microenterprise Loan Fund through Microfinance Ireland (MFI.
and ï§Work with other agencies and representative bodies to develop tailored audience-focused information material. 2015 ACTION PLAN FOR JOBS 65 It is evident that effective communications need to be integrated from the outset
ISIF) 118 Enterprise Ireland to work with the European Investment Fund to progress the establishment of a European Angel Fund in Ireland.
EI) 2015 ACTION PLAN FOR JOBS 69 119 The Department of Finance to work with the relevant stakeholders in raising awareness of the EII Scheme and promoting it as vehicle for channelling investment to grow enterprises and support employment.
the Action Plan for Jobs and Pathways to Work strategies have complemented each other as twin approaches to labour demand
More than 50,000 people who were unemployed long-term at the start of 2012 have found work and unemployment has fallen from a crisis peak of over 15 per cent to 10.6 per cent now.
under Pathways to Work, developed a programme of activities to ensure that as many jobs as possible of the jobs created under this Action Plan are filled by people taken from the Live Register.
Pathways to Work sets out seventy milestones to deliver on this objective. These measures include:
Progress against the delivery of the Pathways to Work objectives will be reported separately, with updates on progress of the above items included in the reports on the Action Plan for Jobs.
Pathways to Work can be found www. welfare. ie. The objectives for 2015 are to:
and ï§Introduce a Back to Work Family Dividend which will help lone parent and long-term jobseeker families to return to work. 2015 Actions Increasing Activation of the Unemployed 127 Continue the development
and reform of the State†s public employment services to help ensure that the number of people on the Live Register is reduced as the economy recovers
D/Justice and Equality) 129 Participate actively in the Department of Social Protection†s Work Placement Programme and the National Internship Scheme.
develop and roll out a Youth Employability Programme in 2015 to support youth work initiatives that increase young peoples†employability,
DCYA) 134 Continue to promote mobility and learning opportunities in the youth work sector and the take-up of EU funding mechanisms available such as the new Erasmus+Programme.
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Whether it is via our work to grow and embed foreign direct investment here or our actions to strengthen
and works to strengthen cooperation and coordination across all Government departments and State agencies involved in the promotion and development of trade, tourism,
ï§Work to increase SME awareness of public procurement opportunities and identify further measures to assist public sector procurement;
IDA) 149 Roll out the delivery of Winning Abroad (see earlier section 3. 4).(IDA) 150 Work to win another 160 new FDI investment projects in 2015.
EI) 158 Work to increase SME awareness of public procurement opportunities. EI) 159 Support Irish companies seeking to participate in procurement overseas through engagements for SMES with International Financial institutions.
HRB) 173 Work with IFB and other agencies to explore the capacity to expand the industry.
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and deepen work to support entrepreneurship in schools. DES) 179 Examine the Entrepreneurship in the Schools activity in each LEO area
DES, HEA) 188 Work with the Department of Social Protection to promote the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance,
DJEI) 194 Support a further cohort of new food entrepreneurs under Food Works 3 and promote market outlets for food start-up companies.
The Cabinet Committee (s) will be supported by the relevant Senior Officials Group and the APJ Monitoring Committee in this work.
Pathways to Work and other strategies, will be important to support sustainable economic and social progress.
and Work Such investment in capital projects can have an immediate employment impact by way of jobs in the construction sector and related activity,
which to live and work. For example, in 2015 we will: ï§Invest â 530 million in capital funding in 2015
and provides associated work training facilities, the completion of the building of the new prison in Cork,
the development and refurbishment of seven courthouses and a range of smaller works on other courthouses,
ï§Labour costs are rising again following a number of years decline and that future increases should be aligned with productivity growth;
recreational and other social infrastructure to ensure Ireland is a great place to live and work.
D/Justice and Equality) 264 With the Film Board, the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is continuing to work to create a more competitive environment to grow the film,
more work remains to be done. Therefore given the continuing and central importance of economic regulation to job creation and national competitiveness, implementation actions at sectoral level and review actions at central level
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EI) 297 Work with the industry to implement a new beef genomic scheme. DAFM) 298 Roll out a schedule of food related Ministerial Trade
We have said that we are determined to help all those on the Live Register find meaningful and rewarding work,
Construction 2020 contains a detailed programme of work including 75 time-bound actions, across a range of issues including:
This reflects an annual increase of 19.1 per cent in residential building, a 13.4 per cent rise in civil engineering and a 2. 5per cent increase in nonresidential building work.
Building on work already underway, we will produce the first annual National Housing Report, identifying any supply/demand mismatches, in Q2.
The Housing Supply Coordination Task force for Dublin will continue its work in support of increased supply in the Capital.
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The strategies pursued by Government, including Action Plan for Jobs, Pathways to Work, successive Budgets,
and markets through facilitating design teams to work with businesses across a broad range of sectors from multinationals to SMES on action-based projects that demonstrate the value and impact of design in business growth,
000 net left the Live Register to Q3 2014 ï§100,000 extra at work by 2016 ï§2. 1m at work in 2018 ï§Implement Pathways to Work
8. 3 Employment Appeals Tribunal waiting time 76 weeks in 2011 63 weeks in 2014 8. 4 Labour Court hearing waiting time
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and present several examples that help to understand how social innovation works in practice. This QR comprises four chapters:
and it is concerned very with wellbeing (BEPA, 2010, p. 6). Also based on the work by Nicholls and Murdock (2012), in their review of the use of the term †social innovationâ€, Caulier-Grice et al.
and, 5) a model of governance, empowerment and capacity building. 1 Our perspective on social innovation is guided in many ways by the work done by the FP7 project TEPSIE (http://www. tepsie. eu),
this section aims at mapping and summarising the main initiatives and actions that constitute the work done until now by the European commission
As an immediate step, it will pilot a European Public sector Innovation Scoreboard as a basis for further work to benchmark public sector innovation.
The first two editions focused on the best social innovation solutions to help people move towards work or into new types of work.
integrating critical analysis of current and previous work with future-oriented methodologies, new actionable knowledge and continual stakeholder participation.
The Transition concept emerged from the work of permaculture11 designer Rob Hopkins with his students of Kinsale Further Education College.
places that work for the people living in them and are suited far better to dealing with the shocks that will accompany economic
SI Park works mainly in the development of large scale social enterprises, generating high local impact
, â€oevision and strategy for Europe†s electricity networks of the future, †Smart Grids European Technology Platform, 2006.14 Task force Smart Grids†Vision and Work Programme, 2010.
We believe that eco-innovations in SMES will contribute to a making a green economy work in Europe and worldwide.
and other materials for reuse from Thames Water†s replacement works. This has injected new life into an old deposition site near Chatham Docks
increasing venture capital, increasing the availability of skilled labour and enhancing international cooperation. In more in detail, short-term solutions include better application of existing state aid rules, a level international playing field and improved access to finance.
there are three separate sub-programmes, each with separate work programmes. •In addition, three programmes indirectly support innovation (TENS for transport and for energy, Marco polo and IDABC/ISA for egovernment).
To be sure, in light of the increasing importance of patents, policy-makers should undertake all possible options to organise the internal work of patent offices more efficiently and effectively.
i. Participation in the IP5 Programme that aims at eliminating unnecessary duplication of work among the offices,
It works on ten work-packages, each one led by one of the offices. 54 PATENT LAW AND POLICY IN EUROPE the leading patent office in the world,
First of all, LDCS are usually countries in the world where the cost of labour is a fraction of
backed also by important scholarly works on this topic, 33 or the lowering of barriers by refusing intellectual property protection for some technologies. 34 Compulsory licensing is disfavoured always by the industry,
The enhanced interoperability triggered by standardisation helps improve product quality because a large number of undertakings work for the improvement of the standard.
However, there has been very little dialogue internationally about what works and what does not, despite the fact that many governments and international agencies have placed this key priority on their agendas.
what works and does not work in the process of developing and implementing health IT. Maccabi Healthcare Services is the second largest health fund in Israel
This pressure to go for global innovation is enhanced by given socio-demographic factors, e g. shortage of skilled labour, in many industrialized countries.
and Labour Affairs in Hamburg and co-financed by the European union (EU). The findings of this survey are matched here against perceived opportunities
16 3. 3. 1 Shortage of Skilled Labour...16 3. 3. 2 Financial Problems and State Support...
19 4. 1. 1 Quantitative Availability of Skilled Labour...19 4. 1. 2 Reducing Bottlenecks in Product Pipeline...
20 4. 2. 1 Cheaper Costs for (Skilled) Labour...21 4. 2. 2 State-induced Incentives...
This pressure to go for global innovation is enhanced by given socio-demographic factors, e g. shortage of skilled labour, in many industrialized countries.
and Labour Affairs in Hamburg and co-financed by the European union EU). The findings of this survey are matched here against perceived opportunities
This paper †unless specified otherwise †works with the EC definition primarily since this definition has been adopted by most of the member countries of the EU including Germany thereby building the basis for most public policies
In Germany as well as in many other EU member countries SMES usually operate under high overhead costs, such as labour costs,
and Eastern europe. 1 Ifm Bonn works with a definition of SMES that differs from the official definition. 2 Definition criteria such as annual turn over
) According to the specifications of the State Ministry of Economic and Labour Affairs (â€oebehã rde fã r Wirtschaft und Arbeitâ€) in Hamburg,
Abandonment of Innovation Projects owing to Financial Constraints 3. 2. 1. 2 Availability of Skilled Labour Another major hurdle faced by the survey respondents related to the difficulty in finding suitable
However, experienced skilled labour was generally difficult to find. 71%71%21%36%14%7%29%14%0%20%40%60%80%Diploma-holders Engineers
Managers Others With work experience Freshers n=33 Figure 6: Lack of Qualified Human resources as Barrier to Innovation BARRIERS TO INNOVATION IN SMES:
since both Germany and its Hamburg region endure substantial unemployment with an unemployment rate of nearly 9%.At the same time the industry is unable to fill vacant positions with skilled labour.
the desire to reduce costs by getting access to cheaper labour. Supposedly â€oeunfavourable†regulatory conditions at home also did not play any worthwhile role in the decision to go international. 3. 2. 3. 2 Challenges of International Innovation The desire to engage in international innovation activities
In the following we describe the two most important aspects of this new research. 3. 3. 1 Shortage of Skilled Labour Firms not only in Germany
but in many other Western countries are faced with scarcity of skilled labour owing primarily to two reasons:
2004) b) Lack of student interest in engineering and natural sciences (see IWD (2007)) In Germany alone firms are facing a severe crunch of skilled labour,
According to some preliminary calculations the shortage of skilled (technical) labour, primarily of engineers and scientists, is leading to a loss of over 20 billion euros a year in the form of unrealized business opportunities.
recruiting skilled technical labour is increasingly becoming a grave problem (DIHK, 2007). Firms are reporting vacancy periods of 3 to 6 months to fill an engineer vacancy;
while the official labour mediation agency Bundesagentur fã r Arbeit confirms this trend (Dunkel & KÃ hnlenz, 2007;
SMES are more prone to suffer from the shortage of skilled labour than large firms,
fast-growing markets such as China and India, may offer tremendous opportunities, e g. in the form of vast pools of qualified human resources in science and technology, cheaper labour costs and access to new, fast
2006), suggest that seeking â€oeaccess to know-how†(e g. in the form of skilled labour) is one of the most important drivers of global innovation.
4. 1. 1 Quantitative Availability of Skilled Labour The demographically disadvantageous factor of an aging population in many Western countries, including Germany,
With 14 million young university graduates (with seven years or less of work experience) India†s talent pool is estimated to be the largest worldwide, overlapping Chinese talent pool by 50%and that of the USA
Google Inc. cited troubles in obtaining work visas for its prospective employees as a reason to set up its â€oefirst engineering research and development centre†outside the US in Bangalore in India (The Hindu,
2003). 4. 1. 2 Reducing Bottlenecks in Product Pipeline Global innovation activities may ensure that work can be carried out simultaneously from multiple locations and on multiple projects, if needed.
in addition to access to skilled labour, may also contribute to reducing costs of innovation. 4. 2. 1 Cheaper Costs for (Skilled) Labour Global activities,
The labour costs are however going up, see section 5. 2. 4. 2. 2 State-induced Incentives There may be induced lucrative state incentives to indulge in R&d activities abroad if the host country offers significant financial support, e g. in the form of â€oetax
Even China and India are reportedly experiencing shortage of skilled labour with international knowledge standards;
wages of highly skilled labour in India reportedly grow by 10 to 15%and above per annum on average;
) Wage costs for semiskilled or unskilled labour, however, remain significantly lower than in Western, industrialized nations. 5. 3 Protection of Intellectual Property rights (IPRS) The protection of IPRS remains a concern,
For instance, Hirschfeld (2005) reports several incidences of intercultural nuisances in Indo-German software development work.
Fabian and Schmidli (2005) report similar problems in Sino-Swiss projects. 5. 7 Acceptance Issues The parent unit (headquarters) tend to interfere in the innovation work being carried out at the foreign location,
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cover approximately 20%of the works and 50%of the studies. Other EU related funding instruments like Cohesion Fund may also participate to the financing.
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company VR-Track Ltd will be responsible for the construction work. VR-Track Ltd signed an agreement that includes rebuilding the superstructure on 66 kilometers of
problems in the terminal and fixed equipment work. Also the rolling stock costs had been underestimated In 1990 the project got its 4. equity after the banks of Midland, Natwest, Credit
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