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MaRS Global Programme

If you're a founder or entrepreneur with bold ambitions, the MaRS Global Programme is your gateway to transformative growth. Through an exclusive partnership with Invest NI, the MaRS Global Programme provides businesses with the opportunity to explore and capitalise on the North American market.

Plant Layout: Plan and choose the best plant layout

With the social distancing measures likely to remain in place for some time, now may be the time to review and rethink the layout of your premises and business processes to make sure that you can comply with any new restrictions during the COVID-19 crisis. This tutorial explains the principles that underpin good plant layout and will help you incorporate any future social distancing requirements.

Although developed for manufacturing, these principles can be applied to businesses in any sector including warehousing, retail and the office.

Lean Thinking: Driving competitiveness

Lean thinking questions the smallest incidents so we can create repeated experiences, handle interruptions with less risk and learn to react better. It can help you learn to always keep safety first, value flow second and cost third. This tutorial explains what lean thinking is, its principles and techniques and how to apply them to your business. Done right, you will not only identify the current ‘waste’ in your business but maximise available resources and make them work easier, better, faster and cheaper.

Training support

Invest in staff training with our skills support to boost employee expertise, motivation and feedback for business growth.

Training Needs Analysis

This Training Needs Analysis tutorial equips you with the tools to identify essential skills for staff development, empowering your team to drive business success.

Delivered by Maeve Carabine, Skills Adviser for Invest NI, you will get an insight into the tools and techniques used by learning and development professionals to analyse training needs. This will enable you to increase productivity and improve the skills of your people through targeted training going forward.

Trade Accelerator Grant

Invest Northern Ireland’s Trade Accelerator Grant (TAG) is to help businesses explore new markets outside Northern Ireland.

Cyber security

Northern Ireland has become a global cyber security hub, boasting an impressive eco-system of specialist university research centres, home-grown innovators and international cyber security leaders.

Land sales and property rentals 

Boost your business in Northern Ireland. Purchase land or rent space at business parks and industrial estates to support your growth plans today.

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Leadership and Capability Development

Invest NI’s Leadership and Capability solutions provide Northern Ireland businesses with the opportunity to develop leadership skills and improve the business for future growth.

Discover the Americas

Access up-to-date market guides, reports, trade show and export opportunities available for your business in the Americas.

Support for innovation driven start-ups

Innovation-Driven Enterprises (IDEs) are dynamic start-ups led by ambitious founders. They create innovative products, disrupt traditional industries, and aim for global success.

Property solutions

Find tailored property solutions to boost business growth, with financial support, rentals, searches, and the Regional Property Programme 

Find a property

Having the right home for your business is important to its growth and productivity.

Property Assistance Scheme

Drive growth with Invest NI's Property Assistance Scheme! Get financial support to create property solutions and achieve your business objectives.

Innovate for success: how can we solve Northern Ireland’s productivity problem?

In today’s fiercely competitive global marketplace, productivity is vital for business survival. Businesses with higher productivity levels and lower costs per unit of output are more competitive in both domestic and international markets. 

Productivity is also crucial for wider economic prosperity. A country with higher productivity usually has more export potential, job creation, and sustainable growth.

Northern Ireland lags behind the UK and the Republic of Ireland’s productivity levels. According to the Productivity Institute’s ‘NI Productivity 2040’ insights paper, the failure to

NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme

NHS Clinical Entrepreneur programme is a year-long mentoring for business startups, funding, and governance for health professionals.