Where innovation means business
Deirdre Glenn,
Director, Manufacturing, Engineering & Energy Commercialisation

Our strategy
• Driving entrepreneurship
• Delivering international scale
• Seeding for future growth
• Fostering innovation – Focus for today!

• Critical to Ireland’s economic recovery
• Sustains about 206,000 direct jobs split almost evenly between indigenous and overseas employers
• Supports at least as many people again in indirect jobs
• Provides employment across a wide range of occupations and skills levels
• Almost 95% of manufacturing firms employ less than 50 people

Lifesciences
Medtech
•devices
•diagnostics
Medical Sub-Supply
Pharma/Vet
Pharma
Chemicals
Manufacturing
Healthcare/Pharma
Services
Engineering
Machine
Manufacture
•Agri Equipment
•Materials Handling
Equipment
Precision &
Mechanical
Engineering, Tanks
& Vessels
Plastics
Other
Electronics/
Cleantech
Building Management
Systems
Industrial Control
Components
Sub-Supply
Energy Efficiency
Water
Waste-Energy
CleanTech Services
Marine Renewables.
Food
Dairy/ Functional
Foods
Ingredients,
Beverages and
Food Technology
Consumer Food,
Seafood and
Horticulture
Primary Meats

• Help to grow in international markets
• Building leadership and management capability
• Improving competitiveness
• Accessing highly trained engineers and scientists
• Supporting Research & Innovation - key differentiator

Research and Innovation
• Supporting in-company R&D
• Supporting collaboration between industry and academia
• Innovation Vouchers
• Innovation Partnerships
• Technology Centres
• Supporting international collaboration
• Horizon 2020, ESA funding, etc
• Infrastructure/People Supports
• Technology Gateways
• Knowledge Transfer Ireland

EI Collaborative Supports - Innovation Partnerships up to €250,000 available for collaborative projects between companies and research teams in Higher
Education
Eurotech
+
CIT

EI Collaborative Supports - Technology Centres
15 Centres, 326 companies engaged
Led by industry
Agile, responsive, focused
No of sectors – Energy
Manufacturing & Materials,
Food & Health, Cloud, Analytics
& Learning technologies and
Business Processes and Financial Services

Technology Gateways
•
Nationwide network - 12 Centres across Institutes of Technology
• Technology solutions for near-term industry problems
• Open access for industry, local and national reach

Examples of R&I Supports for Manufacturing

We support company development & entrepreneurship
Investing 27 million in management and leadership programmes for clients
Supporting entrepreneurship throughout Ireland in Manufacturing –
• New Frontiers
• Diploma in Manufacturing Management at UCC
• Innovation for Growth
• Level 7 degree in Precision Engineering at LIT
• BioInnovate Programme

First National Innovation for Industry Showcase
The Convention Centre Dublin
Tuesday, December 2nd
Showcasing all
Irish State-supported research centres of scale.

Thank you
Contact me: deirdre.glenn@enterpriseireland.com
+353(0)17272749