Acumen
The Acumen programme aims to help SMEs to grow their business on the island of Ireland by targeting new cross-border markets. Acumen has provided assistance to over 300 companies and secured more than €58/£50m in sales since it was rolled out across the island in 2003.
The Acumen programme can help if you are ...
- A manufacturing or internationally tradable service company with an annual turnover below €50m/£40 million
- A company that employs less than 250 people
- An indigenous company (not multinational or foreign owned)
- Committed to the development of new products or markets and with job creation potential
You should also have....
- An established relationship with a mainstream development agency
- A satisfactory track record in your home market
- Less than 30% of total business in the target cross-border market
- The capacity (human, financial & production) to deliver the project
- A sufficiently unique product that does not displace existing products in the marketplace
- A project that can demonstrate that it may not happen without support (additionality)
How to apply?
It is very straight forward to apply for Acumen funding…..all we ask for is for you to give us the answers to some simple questions and let us have some basic company information to get started.
Click here to download a business proposal form
Support
Acumen offers four support options:
1. Consultancy
2. Sales Salary
3. Prospector
4. Graduate
The 4 year initative of the new phase of £8 million Acumen business programme was recently launched.
News release 05 June 2008
Details on Acumen's State Aid approval here
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