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New Frontiers is a national Enterprise Ireland business start-up programme delivered in the GMIT Innovation Centres in Mayo and Galway. The programme focuses on assisting people with business ideas which are the genesis of future exporting companies.

The international marketplace is waiting for you and your business can benefit in a big way. Carol Brady from The Enterprise Europe Network (www.een-ireland.ie) will be talking about “Capturing the Share of International Business” at the next MOCC meeting due to take place in the Innovation in Business Centre (IiBC) at GMIT Castlebar, on Wednesday July 3 at 9.30am.

The international marketplace is waiting for you and your business can benefit in a big way. Carol Brady from The Enterprise Europe Network (www.een-ireland.ie) will be talking about “Capturing the Share of International Business” at the next MOCC meeting due to take place in the Innovation in Business Centre (IiBC) at GMIT Castlebar, on Wednesday July 3 at 9.30am.

Entrepreneurs in Westmeath with an innovative business idea can now apply for the New Frontiers 2013 programme commencing in July. Athlone Institute of Technology in partnership with NUI Maynooth will deliver the programme in the Midlands Mid-East region.

Enterprise Ireland’s recent ‘Get Export Ready’ workshop held in Castlebar attracted 50 individuals from almost 40 companies throughout the west region to hear about the Enterprise Ireland programme of supports aimed at getting more Irish companies exporting. The workshop was aimed at pre-export and early stage exporting companies, and existing businesses seeking to explore new opportunities in export markets.

More than 200 jobs have been created by client companies of the Innovation in Business Centres (IiBC) in GMIT Castlebar and Galway with some 90 being created in Mayo since the Innovation in Business Centre (IiBC) at GMIT Castlebar opened its doors six years ago (2006). The IiBC at GMIT offers desk space, office space, and virtual space to new start-up companies and also runs enterprise programmes funded by various enterprise agencies.

Business and enterprise was shown to be alive and well at the most recent MOCC (Mayo Open Coffee Club) meeting held at the Innovation in Business Centre, GMIT, Castlebar, where a number of enterprise support representatives passed on vital information to more than 40 entrepreneurial thinkers who turned up for the event.

On Monday September 17 at 5.30pm the Innovation in Business Centre will host its annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship Event at St Mary’s Hall, GMIT, Castlebar.

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, has launched a new €2 million programme to encourage groups of businesses to collaborate to achieve specific business objectives, improve competitive advantage, create mutual financial gain – and ultimately create jobs.

Industry leaders from household name American medical devices giants such as Boston Scientific, Medtronic and Stryker are in NUI Galway later this week to address a major symposium for Irish companies.