Entrepreneurialism Case Study

Factors that promote and impede Entrepreneurialism in Ireland
There are various different factors that can promote as well as impede the level of entrepreneurialism in the Irish economy. The below text includes some of the main factors that promote and impede Irish entrepreneurialism.
Factors that can promote entrepreneurialism in the Irish Economy
Advice, mentoring and introductions – advice, mentoring and introductions to various different business contacts and potential investors are available to any new business start-ups who wish to avail of these services. Enterprise Ireland openly provides advice and support to anybody who seeks to start-up a new business in Ireland. They can provide new businesses with mentors (free of charge) to help
Irish companies can become the sales platform for U.K goods into the continent. As one of our case studies said, Irish companies should be positioning themselves as the exciting new to what will be a U.K problem. There will be plenty of opportunities for Irish businesses and they need to seize these opportunities as they come along.
More Businesses coming into Ireland
The benefit for Ireland is that some foreign investment that was supposed to be going to the U.K may now come to Ireland. This could take the form of financial services companies relocating to Ireland. But it could also see more investment in Irish commercial property originally intended for the U.K. Even during the referendum campaign NAMA noticed some investment supposed to be for the U.K being spent on commercial property in Ireland.
The IDA also now has a huge opportunity to entice would be U.K-Companies into Ireland. Ireland already had many reasons for businesses to set up here before Brexit such as the favourable tax rate of 12.5% and our skilled workforce and now since Brexit there is
One such threat facing Ireland as a result of Brexit is the impact on trade between the two countries. Brexit will have a large impact on trade between Ireland and the U.K. The U.K is the second largest country in terms of export destination for Ireland of goods and is the largest export destination for services. Ireland woke up the morning after the Brexit vote to the realisation that the market for trade would no longer be as easy to access as it had been. In 2013 the U.K accounted for 16.1% of Ireland’s total good exports, just behind the USA. The U.K also accounted for 17.8% of total service exports. Since Brexit, Irish goods are now more expensive to bring into the U.K which means fewer goods are being sold to them. Ireland imports more goods from the UK than any other country we trade with. The U.K is a major trading partner for Irish-owned enterprises and their employment. Indigenous manufacturing firms sold 43% of their exports to the U.K while foreign companies exported 11% of their produce. To highlight the importance of U.K trade to Ireland, consider that exports to the UK might only account for 16% of Ireland’s total exports, yet 30% of all employment is in sectors which are heavily related to U.K exports. It is likely that these types of indigenous sectors would be disproportionately affected by any detrimental impact on