For Companies with Growth Ambitions:

• Are you a business owner who recognises the need to introduce new products, processes and systems into your business?
• Do you want to make your business more competitive and establish a solid foundation for future growth?
• Are you interested in introducing an innovative culture into your company?
• Are you interested in investigating new business opportunities, particularly in export markets?

If you have answered yes to any of the above questions, then the Business Innovation Programme may be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

What do we offer?

The DCU Ryan Academy is looking for about 40 companies to host business development teams to carry out an assignment, free of charge, over a period of 40 days commencing in February 2012.  We have over 100 experienced managers and professionals who are studying business innovation.  As part of their course, each team of three persons will carry out a project in one of a variety of business development topics including product and/or service innovation, business process reviews including reviews of sales and marketing processes, reviews of the companies’ business models and some will help host companies to become systematically more innovative.  Our innovation teams are supported by experienced tutor/ mentors who will liaise with host companies throughout the period of their assignment.

How to get Involved.........

Companies interested in participating should contact Aifric O’Malley (01) 700 6769 or click HERE to fill out our Expression of Interest Form.

Who are we?

The DCU Ryan Academy is a joint venture between Dublin City University and the family of the late Tony Ryan, founder of Ryanair.  Our aim is to bridge the gap between academia and entrepreneurial practice in Ireland through training, support and funding for entrepreneurs. The students on our Business Innovation Programme are unemployed persons with a wide variety of professional and managerial backgrounds who are currently studying innovation, market and feasibility research, project management and consultancy skills.

Host Company Testimonials:

The value of the Business Innovation Programme (BIP) to real business and prospective employers:

 "The benefit to participants include engaging with innovative companies, while having the opportunity to work on projects which will have a real impact.  they are adding value where resources are scarce and if projects are successful, they are creating work for themselves". 

Jonathan Dunne - Mercury Engineering

  "The work carried our for us by the BIP participants for us was extremely beneficial to our company and was in-depth and to a very high standard.  It was useful to have people from outside our industry to look at our activities.  They have helped us gain a greater insight into our company, our existing and potential customers, competitors and the industry in general through the research they undertook.  We recently established an innovation team in our company, and the result of the professionally presented findings from the Ryan Academy team will be of great interest to the".

Willie Kearney & Tom Morrisey - Thermodial

Funding Agency of the Business Innovation Programme:

For further details contact:

Aifric O'Malley - Programme Administrator, Host Companies - aifric.omalley@ryanacademy.dcu.ie - Tel: (01)  7006769