General Business Development

The General Business Development category contains a directory of links to relevant sites which can help with any area of business development such as new business start up, growing a business, buying a business or assisting an ailing business.

• Business Owners' Ideas Cafe
  [ http://www.businessownersideacafe.com/ ]

  Small business information and advice site. Advice on how to start, finance and run a small business. There's a daily contest, tech & book reviews, guest biz experts section, chat forums, and over 8,000 pages of small business tools and resources.

• Department of Enterprise Trade And Employment
  [ http://www.entemp.ie ]

  Comprehensive interactive site detailing the activities, programmes and publications of the Department for Enterprise.

• The National Agriculture and Food Research & Training Body
  [ http://www.teagasc.ie ]

  The teagasc Website features training, advisory & research services as well as events, publications & recruitment opportunities.

• the business shop
  [ http://www.thebusinessshop.ie ]

  Dedicated website for business opportunities where businesses can be bought, sold, franchised or investors sought. There is a fee for placing ads on this site.

• MicroTrade
  [ http://www.microtrade.org ]

  The website of Microtrade, the cross border trade programme which is a partnership of InterTrade Ireland, CEB's and Enterprise Northern Ireland

• Innovator
  [ http://www.innovator.ie ]

  The website of Innovator which gives details of upcoming courses & workshops on R&D, Innovator, Intellectual Property & CAD Technologies.

• Enterprise Action Clondalkin
  [ http://www.enterpriseaction.ie ]

  Website of Enterprise Action, a community based enterprise support organisation located in Clondalkin. Provides information & news on training & enterprise space.

• Terenure Enterprise Centre
  [ http://www.terenure-enterprise.ie ]

  Website of CESL, a community based enterprise development organisation. Provides information on services, training, enterprise space & news.

• EUROPA- the portal site of the European Union
  [ http://www.europa.eu ]

  EUROPA is the portal site of the European Union. It provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. Users can also consult all legislation currently in force or under discussion.

• Student Enterprise Awards
  [ http://www.studententerprise.ie ]

  The website of the Student Enterprise Awards - organised and supported by the City and County Enterprise Boards. Features case studies, application forms, rules, prizes and guidelines for the Awards.