The Future of FDI – an Irish perspective As the old Chinese proverb goes ‘may you live in interesting times’ the past couple of years could definitely be described as…
COVID Entrepreneurs and the regional opportunity. For decades we’ve battled with the challenge of how to make entrepreneurship more attractive, running initiatives like young enterprise, dragon’s dens and countless initiatives…
A pervasive dilemma for public funded trade and investment agencies when they are asked by their clients to recommend a service provider is how to maintain independence and impartiality and…
In the week that Lionel Messi submitted a transfer request to Barcelona, Nick Watson looks at the parallels between attracting foreign footballers and securing foreign direct investment (FDI). The world’s…
United won an entertaining Manchester derby by two goals to nothing. Now, a little more than three months later, that date of March 8th seems like a lifetime ago: the…
As my 4-year-old niece pronounced on a Zoom call earlier this week, “Aunty, the world is different now”. Indeed it is: governments around the world are announcing bailouts; venturing to…
