The Innovation and Investment Division carries policy and delivery management responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment to Ireland, enterprise innovation, intellectual property and the co-ordination of the department’s actions in the government's Housing for All strategy, delivered through multiple agencies as set out below.
The division has responsibility for:
- contributing to the delivery of effective foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in Ireland by working with IDA Ireland and other government departments to ensure the agency’s strategies are implemented as effectively and efficiently as possible
- fostering and growing enterprise innovation through IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland; innovation programmes through Enterprise Ireland includes programmes for in-company innovation, connecting enterprise to academic research, commercialisation of research from Higher Education Institutes and the creation of High Potential Start-Up companies. These programmes are aimed at driving exports and creating jobs
- the formulation and development of Ireland's intellectual property policy and legislation, promote Ireland’s interests at EU level and adhere to our international obligations to which Ireland is committed through various international agreements; the delivery of an efficient IP administrative system which comes under the remit of the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland (IPOI)
- National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI)
- coordinating the delivery of the department’s actions in the Housing for All plan while stimulating innovation and tech adoption in the domestic residential construction sector more broadly
Assistant Secretary: John Newham
Units
- Construction and Enterprise Innovation Policy Unit
- Enterprise Innovation Programmes Unit
- Intellectual Property Unit
- National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) Liaison Unit
- Inward Investment Unit
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