New Connections - Department of Taoiseach

(4) eBusiness(4.1) Accelerator FundETEThe Accelerator Fund was established by Enterprise Ireland to fast-track significant scaleprojects designed to integrate ICTs into business processes. The Accelerator Fund will:• complete ongoing projects and develop case studies and models of best practice fordissemination throughout the SME sectorUpdateThe Acceleration Fund funded one hundred and two projects. A total of twenty casestudies have been completed and published to date. It is intended that thirty-five indepthcross-sectoral case studies will be completed and published early in 2003. Detailsof these case studies can be found on the Enterprise Ireland’s dedicated eBusinessWebsite http://www.openup.ie/ A book and CD “Practical eBusiness - CompetitiveAdvantage Through IT and eBusiness; A Handbook for Irish Managers" capturing thekey learning points of the participating companies was also published by EnterpriseIrelandAn independent Evaluator was appointed in June 2002 to carry out a comprehensiveevaluation of the Acceleration fund. The report on the outcome of this evaluation will becompleted by the end of January 2003.(4.2) ITS 2007ETEITS 2007 is a range of specific initiatives by Enterprise Ireland aimed at developing highvalue added, knowledge intensive industries, and helping them to achieve fast growth.Information can be found at the website: http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/Initiatives include• Webworks - flexible, highly wired office accommodation and management support, forclusters of regionally based high tech companies• Digital Media District in Dublin and other support actions to develop the emergingindustry of digital media33