State pledges €9m to workplace innovation
The Workplace Innovation Fund is due to become operational in the first half of this year and will be jointly managed by the National Centre for Partnership and Performance (NCPP) and Enterprise Ireland. It will primarily be aimed at small to medium enterprises seeking to improve their competitiveness and productivity through the implementation of new organisational processes and practices.
It forms part of the NCPP’s new strategy for 2007 to 2010 — Irish Workplaces: A Strategy for Change, Innovation and Partnership — which was officially launched yesterday by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, who urged employers, employees, trade unions, government departments and state agencies to support the NCPP strategy.
