Sunday Independent: The way companies do business is changing rapidly, with emerging disruptive technologies impacting how they will operate. Enterprises must innovate to develop new capabilities, products and services to stay relevant and competitive.

Going for Growth launches call for applicants for the 11th cycle of the award-winning programme. The call is open to ambitious female entrepreneurs who are looking to scale their businesses and join the latest cycle of Going for Growth.

Irish companies are well-placed to enter the 19 eurozone markets and Enterprise Ireland is backing them all the way. 

Irish companies are exporting more and more every year and even as Brexit headwinds persist, businesses in the Republic recorded another bumper year in 2017.

Enterprise Ireland is to open a new office in the US shortly as it seeks to cope with a continued flood of investment by Irish companies in North America.

Last week, Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, John Halligan TD led a 5-day Enterprise Ireland ‘Education in Ireland’ mission to China.

A retail software company is to create 50 jobs over the next three years to coincide with a boost for the sector on the back of increasing consumer confidence.

Irish company Eiravato has raised €550,000 in funding to help companies turn their waste into profit, eliminating the need to send it to landfill, making their supply chains more efficient.

T.E. Laboratories (TelLab), with headquarters in Co Carlow, has secured just under €900,000 from the European Commission programme to help bring a water quality monitoring device to the market.

Mark Little’s digital news venture Neva Labs has been renamed Kinzen and is inviting people to test pre-release versions of its app before its official launch in January.

Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing as it is more popularly known, has the potential to revolutionise current manufacturing practice.

Cork firm Wisetek, which specialises in data destruction and the disposal of IT equipment, is eyeing further global growth, with the embedding of the general data protection regulation (GDPR) within organisations.

Property Bridges is offering a solution to Ireland’s housing shortage and giving everyday savers the opportunity to earn better than average returns on their money. 

Nuritas, a company supported by Enterprise Ireland’s High Potential Start-Ups (HPSU) unit, harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to mine the data within food sources to identify and unlock bioactive peptides with the potential to prevent and treat disease.

Start-up of the Week is Galway-based CorribPoint, which has developed a cloud technology for credit unions to meet AML obligations.

Over 100 attendees gathered in Enterprise Ireland for an event organised by Dublin Regional Skills Forum (DRSF) in collaboration with Enterprise Ireland to bring together SME businesses and education providers (FE & HE) in supporting skills needs.

Long-established Irish technical and engineering company LotusWorks has been acquired in a management buyout (MBO) by four senior executives.

Irish company Envirotec Bathing is growing rapidly in the UK, thanks to a highly innovative shower enclosure it has developed, which is leak-proof, easy to install, and reduces costs considerably for builders and developers. 

Drone Consultants Ireland (DCI) was awarded the Regional Competition of the 2018 European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) by An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar.