Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Annual Report 2013 and Microenterprise Policy: Enterprise Ireland

2:15 pm

Ms Julie Sinnamon:

With regard to trade missions opportunities, it depends on the market. In the case of Brazil, Russia, India and China, the BRIC countries, those in the larger companies have tended to gone on trade missions in recent years I do not mean that those companies are very large but the scale of resources required to go on trade missions is beyond their reach of most companies. With regard to closer markets such as the United Kingdom, during the week of the President's visit to the UK, we ran a specific workshop for high potential start-ups, which were very much early stage companies, to help them get into the market. What we organise depends on the need. We also run study visits, in addition to the trade missions, for some of the smaller companies in order for them to go out and see the market and get information on it. We have included some clients with local enterprise offices on some trade missions where they were relevant and were in a position to go on them.

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