ENTERPRISE IRELAND Presentation By Niall O’Donnellan Head Policy and Planning Enterprise Ireland

Strategic Change in Action  Policy Context  Strategic Context  Role of EI

Policy Context

Evolution of Industrial Policy  1930’s/1940’s - protectionism  1950’s/1960’s - Opening Up  1970’s - Collapse of indigenous  Telesis - Renewal of faith  Culliton (1992)  Forbairt  Enterprise Ireland  Globalising

Strategic Context

Renaissance of Indigenous Industry 1990s/2000s  Substantial Growth  Exports +8/9% Annual  Jobs Net Annual Change  R&D Expenditure Doubled  Sectoral Change  Indigenous Software  Electronics  Consumer Food  Clothing  Structural Change  Serial Entrepreneurs  VC Industry  Irish MNCs  Global Approach

Examples  Technology growth/start-up companies  Iona  Lake Communications  Performix  Industrial/consumer product companies  Waterford Stanley  O’Neills  Waterford Glass  Food/natural resource companies  Rye Valley  Kerry Group  Abbott

EXPORTS 2000

Job Losses Net Change

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

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.

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+ 3,100  Irish-owned emerging start-ups 300  Natural Resources 100  TOTAL EI CLIENTS 3,500

Enterprise Ireland  Range of services  Company development  Marketing  Technology  HRD  Regional and sectoral development  College R+D  Resources  23 overseas offices  8 regional offices  Staff 900+  Budget 2001 Euro 290m.

Capacity to Influence in an integrated way the Value-Added Chain StrategyR&DFinanceHRProductionMarketing

Shift to Knowledge Direct to Firm Networks Local/ Global New Sectors Business Infrastructure Sectoral Groups Money Knowledge