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Dr @JohnBreslin, Director
@Tech_Innovate, @NUIGalway
Collaborative Leadership to
Increase the Northern &
Western Region’s Innovation
and Entrepreneurship
Capacity

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— Peter Drucker
“What’s measured
improves.”

3.
1. What needs to
improve?
2. What should we
measure?
3. How do we take
action?

4.
1. What needs to improve?
- Some statistics where there’s
definite room for
improvement
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Ireland has the
6th lowest
startup birth rate
in the EU at 7.3%
Eurostat (2015, EU average is 10%)
Data mapped using Tableau and retrieved 10 May 2018 from
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/structural-business-statistics/entrepreneurship/indicators

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Drop in the number of enterprises
from 2008 to 2015 CSO
Northern & Western Region
7%⬇
Ireland
2%⬆
Data retrieved 10 May 2018 from
www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/er/bd/businessdemography2015/

7.
DL, MO, SO were the only counties
to drop in population (2011 to
2016), and Dublin is 166% greater
than at foundation of the State
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Populations of
Connacht & Ulster
are lower than they
were in 1926 CSO
Data retrieved 10 May 2018 from www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?maintable=CD102&PLanguage=0 and
www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?maintable=EP001&Planguage=0

8.
2013Q1 was when the State’s total
labour force was at its lowest
(State growth since then is 8%)
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MIDLANDS
⬆1%
DUBLIN
⬆13%
SOUTH-EAST
⬆4%
SOUTH-WEST
⬆4%
MID-EAST
⬆7%MID-WEST
⬆6%
BORDER
⬆14%
WEST
0%
No Western growth in
labour force since 2013
CSO (QLF15: 2013Q1-2017Q4)
Data retrieved 10 May 2018 from
www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?maintable=QLF15&PLanguage=0

9.
In the West, employment is only
now at the same level as in 2009
(>200k), growing at the slowest
rate in the State (QNQ22; QLF15)
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MIDLANDS
⬆20.4%
DUBLIN
⬆15.8%
SOUTH-EAST
⬆18.5%
SOUTH-WEST
⬆15.2%
MID-EAST
⬆14.2%MID-WEST
⬆12%
BORDER
⬆14.7%
WEST
⬆6.2%
Lowest national jobs
growth in the West
since the lowest point
of the recession CSO (QNQ22:
low point-2017Q2)
Thanks to @DanOBrien20 for the pointers, data retrieved 10 May 2018 from
www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?maintable=QNQ22&PLanguage=0

10.
2. What should we measure?
- Need more metrics and
insights before we can take
action...
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● Global Competitiveness Index
● Bloomberg Innovation Index
● Global Innovation Index
● European Innovation Scoreboard
● Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
● Global Entrepreneurship Index
● Global Startup Ecosystem Report
● World Bank (WB) World Development Indicators (WDI)
● UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics (UIS)
● OECD
Don’t reinvent: reuse best-in-class
of existing measures/metrics
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12.
Don’t be Silicon
Valley: have own
comparative
regional advantage
Original slides by Dr Phil Budden and
Professor Fiona Murray, MIT
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13.
Foundational
Institutions
Ease of Doing Business,
Starting a Business,
Paying Taxes, Resolving
Insolvency, Enforcing
Contracts, Property
Rights, Government
Integrity, Labour
Freedom, Trade Freedom,
Corruption Perceptions
Index 13

14.
Increase
innovation and
entrepreneurship
capacity
Original slides by Dr Phil Budden and
Professor Fiona Murray, MIT
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EQI = Entrepreneurial Quality Index, or the average growth potential (or “quality”) of any given group of new firms
Eurostat has some useful data on the survival rates of enterprises after two years, as well as the employment share of two year old enterprises

19.
Institution Total 2017
NUI Galway 24401 1820
Galway Mayo IT 658 51
IT Sligo 246 24
Letterkenny IT 122 10
Dundalk IT 410 36
Athlone IT 359 45
Publications from
HEIs in the BMW
Region WOS
UCD = 56367
TCD = 54818
UCC = 32041
UL = 13538
DCU = 12590
MU = 7645
DIT = 4318
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Data retrieved 10-23 May 2018 from Web of Science by Clarivate Analytics at
login.webofknowledge.com

20.
HEI Applicant Filings
University College Cork 386
Trinity College Dublin 360
National University of Ireland Galway 264
Dublin City University 253
University College Dublin 225
University of Limerick 131
National University of Ireland (aggregation) 91
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 87
Dublin Institute of Technology 76
Maynooth University 49
Patent filings from
HEIs (1999-2013)
DJEI/DBEI
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Data retrieved 23 May 2018 from dbei.gov.ie/en/Publications/Publication-files/
An-Analysis-of-Intellectual-Property-Activity-in-Ireland-Based-on-Existing-Data.pdf

21.
PCT Applicant 2015 2016 2017
CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS
LIMITED (VALEO VISION SYSTEMS)
10 22 28
ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES
LIMITED
12 10 14
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN 11 7 11
FOTONATION LIMITED 1 10 10
PROTHENA BIOSCIENCES LIMITED 8 4 10
X-CELEPRINT LIMITED 4 4 10
JANSSEN R & D IRELAND 9 7 9
NURITAS LIMITED 9
DEPUY IRELAND UNLIMITED 8
Patent filings from
Irish organisations
WIPO
PCT = Patent Cooperation Treaty
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Data retrieved 23 May 2018 from World Intellectual Property Organization at
www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/country_profile/profile.jsp?code=IE

22.
Comparative
Advantage
Leading current economic
clusters
Leading assets
Leading areas of
expertise and talent
Critical
problems/challenges
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3. How do we do take action?
- A collaborative leadership
approach is needed to agree
on metrics and act upon them
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REAP = Regional
Entrepreneurship
Acceleration
Programme
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Original slides by Dr Phil Budden and
Professor Fiona Murray, MIT
MIT REAP Director SJ Maxted

25.
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Gather the
innovation
ecosystem
stakeholders
Original slides by Dr Phil Budden and
Professor Fiona Murray, MIT

26.
Define shared
metrics to set
agenda and create
impact via action
Original slides by Dr Phil Budden and
Professor Fiona Murray, MIT
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● Increase impact and innovation capacity/entrepreneurship
capacity in this region through actions derived from a
metric-driven common agenda
● A collaborative leadership group is currently being put
together, and will visit the MIT REAP management team in
Boston next week
Let’s get the Northern & Western
Region of Ireland onto MIT REAP
Thank you! Any questions?
@johnbreslin
john@bresl.in