Small Business Column: SMEs need to look beyond borders

In this week’s Small Business column, Kehlan looks at why the push for businesses to export is justified and why SMEs need to look beyond borders.

The great adventurer Thor Heyerdahl was once asked about his travels and crossing borders. “Borders?” he said “I have never seen one, but I hear they exist in the minds of some people”.

When I first started writing about small business in Ireland, for what seems an age ago, I lambasted the powers that be on their handing out of incentives to exporters like confetti.