Forum launches small business report

The Small Business Forum has launched a report on public policy to support small business in Ireland.

Fifteen recommendations were included in the report in order to create a better environment, stimulate growth and inspire entrepreneurship in the small business sector.

They include raising the standard of management capability through the establishment of a Management Development Council, providing knowledge acquisitions grants, making innovation vouchers available to small business and developing a national entrepreneurship policy.

Speaking at the launch of the Forum’s Report, Minister Micheál Martin said: “The vibrancy of the small business sector is critical to Ireland’s future economic success.

“With 97% of all businesses in Ireland being classified as small, employing almost 800,000 people it is obviously important to the overall vibrancy of the economy that we ensure that we are doing as much as possible at all times to support their continued growth and development.”