Innovation Connections Programme

InterTradeIreland have commissioned industry experts, Innovator and the Centre for Irish & European Security, to apply a process of Demand Led Innovation to uncover unmet needs and identify new business opportunities for micro, small and medium businesses. A 2-day workshop has been developed to demonstrate this process and explain in detail the new opportunities identified.

The workshops will be relevant to SMEs from all business sectors whose focus is:

• Short to medium term new business opportunities
• Delivering services, products and processes which meet real customer needs

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For this programme, the target market was the Civil Security Sector. This sector is valued at €26bn in Europe alone and is growing at 5% per annum. Having only scratched the surface, we have uncovered 15 new business opportunities, all of which have been validated as “unmet needs” by lead customers. These opportunities, along with key insights will be presented by civil security experts.

The opportunities will be relevant to SMEs who are:

• Interested in entering the civil security market or
• Active within the civil security market or
• Active within the following sectors:

The schedule of workshops is: 

Companies who participate will capture value in their businesses by:

• Using Demand Led Innovation as part of the business activity mix
• Applying Demand Led Innovation to current customers and new markets
• Building the business cases, adapting business models and determining feasibility of new opportunities

INNOVATOR and the Centre for Irish & European Security are available to provide expert mentoring & support to interested companies, throughout and on completion of the programme. The cost to attend the 2 days is €250 / £216 per company. Two people per company can attend.

For further details contact Sean McNulty (see contact details).