Your building contractor asks you for a 50% deposit of €20,000.00 up front for the window manufacturer on your new house project. What do you do? What if the builder goes out of business after you give him the money? What if the window manufacturer goes out of business? The window manufacturer doesn’t trust you or the builder and won’t even order materials until he has a 50% deposit as security. The builder doesn’t trust anyone, he’s suspicious of the Employer’s reticence in parting with his money and doesn’t want to pay his sub-contractors until he secures his own payments. Welcome to the post “Celtic Tiger” world of Irish Construction.

The implementation of this proposal would see the development of an instantaneous culture of entrepreneurial thinking across Ireland. A regime, similar to National Service in other countries could be implemented to adults, to those not in full time education or employment which would see them signing up to the army for a programme of physical and academic training. The physical training would take the form of traditional army conditioning for fitness, improving the health of the participants. The academic training would involve business development training and entrepreneurship education. This would provide knowledge, skills and motivation to achieve entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. Opportunities can be realised from the training in several ways. Firstly, through opening a new organisation (starting a new business). Another approach from the training could be to promote innovation or introduce new products or services or markets in existing firms. There were 436,0 More...

Do Something, Ireland is a national call to action. A simple 2 year facilitation platform to inject dynamism and self belief, a “can do” attitude into the national mindset (as called for by the recent Taskforce on Innovation) that will create tens of thousands of jobs by micro financing local community initiatives (to a cap of €10,000 each) and encouraging entrepreneurship. This is a proposal for joined up thinking – to focus and improve existing resources by creating a national one stop shop portal to encourage and enable the Irish public to do something for Irish enterprise by: • Pursuing entrepreneurial ideas with support and access to resources and grants • Developing do-it-yourself local community initiatives by applying for funding for up to €10,000 • Volunteering for work with local charities and non-profits that need volunteer help in their constituency • Donating cash to support local community initiatives in their constituency The five interactive channel More...

My proposal is to sort and publish all these ideas in a suppliment in the national press - while I'm aware there could be close to 9000 ideas, having them all in a suppliment would allow people to read all the ideas and perhaps could develop their own ideas. I find it very difficult to read all the ideas on this website, but the ones I have read are giving me further ideas. The supliments could be published during a national entrepreneural week!

the no 1 priority for the government in these dark days should be preparing young and old alike for the day when there WILL be jobs coming onstream and to just let these people fester on the live register is totally uncaring and immoral of this failed government. we need a REAL task force set up to create courses for ALL jobseekers, to have them trained to the best of their ability for when this country takes off again. we need to give people the mindset that even sweeping the streets or cleaning windows etc. is far nobler than staying in bed or hanging around pubs or bookies, spending money earned is far more satisfying than receiving handouts. if we can instil a work mentality into our unemployed NOW it will reap so many dividends when the jobs are there. if we give the people on the bottom rung of the ladder the tools and the belief that they can better themselves even in these negative times then we will have done something good, something right and even if only a few benefit from More...

An Attitudinal Shift for behaving,doing business and delivering service in a recognisably Irish way. It doesn't cost anything to be nice as a nation. It can be achieved through a paradigm, an attitudinal change. The old recognisable stereotypical Irish attitude, the seanmheon, was friendly, positive and nice. It was mannerly, respectful, helpful, civil and appealing to ourselves and to others. Lets rekindle it and teach it again. You've got to like people before you'll do business with them. There is no limit to the potential from this gamebreaking idea. There are huge employment opportunities. Dear Dear Training can be tutored in parallel with our current education system Also, Tutors or Mentors could be rewarded through a 5% tax break, as can the recipient of the training. Their pairing with a Dear Dear recipient is recorded and signed off and verifiable to allow the tax break. This notion can permeate the nation. If adopted the big idea can influence legislation,administ More...

In Ireland, trust has never been needed more, and experienced less, than at present. Lack of trust can destroy even the most thriving economy or the strongest business. High trust has the potential to create unprecedented and long-lasting success and prosperity in every dimension of Irish life. Wide-ranging and long-standing research shows the significant advantages enjoyed by high-trust, high-performance organisations including superior stock market performance, employment and revenue growth, and innovation. Many larger organisations - such as Microsoft, O2, and PepsiCo - are already committed to building high-trust workplaces, and are regularly honoured among the Best Workplaces in Ireland'. I propose an initiative to inspire and support smaller Irish organisations to commit to building higher levels of trust in their workplaces. Inspiration will be provided by leading Irish sports stars (everyone can instinctively understand the role of trust in achieving success in team sports), More...

This proposal puts forward a united civic approach to harnessing the talent of the unemployed in the Irish workforce. The vision is an emerging society where if one person counts, everybody counts – built on the basis that “United We Stand (UWS)”. The UWS programme will encompass elements of internship, return-ship, apprenticeship, mentoring, work partners and retraining. It will be directed at the talent pools all over the country. This scheme could also be used to generate social credits that could be used toward higher education (if fees at third level are reintroduced) or deferred pension.

A project which will create local and national jobs, namely the creation of an online network, in cloud computing style, which will act as a public utility for individuals and companies alike, allowing them access to software and shared resources. It would create it's own employment and cut down on major overheads for both start-up and established companies. The project is funded through a local venture fund, funded and administered by local people, to be set up wherever possible all around the country. People who invest in the fund will be paid interest at a rate similar to that of Government bonds.

Ireland needs more substantial successful companies to ensure her future economic security. One of the most successful methods for creating new companies is to spin out parts of existing companies. These are three times more successful than companies starting from scratch. The low level of creation of such companies in Ireland needs to be stimulated by: - Providing financial incentives for large companies to initiate spinouts - Encouraging and supporting employees to do so Since inception 10 months ago, with relatively modest promotional effort, CorporateSpinouts.com has developed a healthy pipeline of new companies, thus partly proving the potential for this in Ireland. A larger state-backed effort could magnify this considerably and become the driving force of Irish enterprise promotion.