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Episode 21: Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher - with Richard Whyte, Lynne Whelan & Kylie Magner

May 06, 2022 • Tipperary Local Enterprise Office & TBF Digital Marketing Agency

If you are wondering whether innovation is relevant to your business remember that plenty of companies running the world today started as small enterprises. The visionaries behind these companies were innovators. They hit on a winning formula and the rest, as they say, is history. So what is innovation, where do you start and how do you get help?

In this episode Aisling meets Richard Whyte of Design Plus who manages the Innovation Voucher process for the Institute of Technology Carlow. He explains how to get a voucher, how to use a combination of them worth €25,000 for larger projects, the type of projects and businesses that are suitable and where to start.

Aisling also talks to Lynne Whelan who is a Senior Design Strategist in Design Plus Technology, IT Carlow. Lynne has worked with several Tipperary based businesses including Kylie Magner of Magners Farm through a series of design workshops to develop strategies for growth and innovation. Lynne explains how Innovation Vouchers can be used for many things including developing a roadmap when succession planning for family businesses (from one generation to the next) as well as building out a strategic roadmap towards growth.

*Funding is available only for Irish based businesses. Contact your local LEO to find out more and see if your business is eligible.

You can find out more about the Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher programme via the website; https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/research-innovation/companies/collaborate-with-companies-research-institutes/innovation-voucher.shortcut.html

You can reach Lynne or Richard via Design Plus at http://www.designplus.ie/

You can find out more about Kyle’s farm on https://www.magnersfarm.com/

You can reach LEO Tipperary on localenteprise.ie Tipperary, or get in touch with them at their base in Clonmel, via Twitter or Instagram @LEOTipperary.

You can talk to the team at The Business Fairy Digital Marketing Agency on Twitter or Instagram @tbfcentral using the #SMECommunityPodcast.

The SME Community Podcast Production Team

LEO Tipperary Team:

https://www.localenterprise.ie/Tipperary/

Madeline Ryan

Ita Horan

TBF Production Team:

https://thebusinessfairy.ie

https://tbf.ie

Research & Host Aisling Hurley

Sound Engineer Derry Luttrell