Where Ideas Meet Opportunity
The Innovation Marketplace connects SMEs, Corporates,
investors, and partners to accelerate growth and impact
We have developed an innovation platform to facilitate connection, dealflow, talent development, and collaboration through our curated platform.
Connect with the latest services, innovations, and providers
you need from organizations across Europe
About the Innovation Marketplace
We connect businesses with the expertise, opportunities and partnerships they need to innovate, grow, and scale. The Innovation Marketplace provides a single gateway to the people, programmes, and resources that help ambitious businesses grow and scale.
- Collaborating with startups, established businesses, investors and strategic partners
- Expertise in business growth, mentoring and investment readiness
- A collaborative platform for innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercial success
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Innovation in Action
Skillnet Innovation Exchange
The Innovation Exchange connects established businesses facing innovation challenges with ambitious technology providers offering practical solutions.
Through a structured, fully managed programme, corporates gain access to emerging technologies while solution providers build enterprise relationships, understand market needs and create new sales opportunities. More than 1,000 companies have already participated.
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Pathway
to Innovate
Pathway to Innovate helps Irish SMEs build practical innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities through targeted upskilling and regional innovation clinics.
The programme provides practical tools, expert guidance and access to supports across funding, training and mentoring, helping businesses adopt new technologies, improve competitiveness and turn ideas into measurable growth.
Innovation Marketplace UK
Innovation Marketplace UK is a pilot delivered with Sister, Manchester’s innovation district, connecting corporates, SMEs and academia to accelerate digital transformation.
The programme brings a proven Irish model to North West England, strengthening the UK–Ireland economic corridor and creating high-impact commercial opportunities for SMEs and established businesses.
Green Grid Europe
Green Grid Europe supports cleantech and industrial SMEs in adopting energy-efficient solutions, strengthening grid resilience and scaling innovative net-zero technologies.
Through European and international networks, it connects businesses with collaboration, finance and market-access opportunities, helping new solutions integrate into industry and expand internationally.
About Us
Where Ideas Meet Opportunity
The Innovation Marketplace connects SMEs, Corporates, investors,
and partners to accelerate growth and impact.
Sinead O'Riordan
Director
A senior business leader who has gained broad experience working with start-up’s, SME’s and multinationals. Sinead has a track record in developing and executing company-wide strategic programs.
She is responsible for operational delivery of the programs and is specifically focussed on driving individual, team and company performance.Key strengths include strategy design, operational management, innovation program implementation and partnership development. Sinead has graduated with a BA (Econ & Maths), DCS and an MBA.
Conor Carmody
Director
Conor is a business leader with broad expertise in the start-up and scale up environment and the development of companies in the retail and telecoms arena, both in Ireland and internationally
Conor is founder of the Innovation Exchange in Ireland, Ireland’s marketplace for innovation, connecting large businesses facing innovation challenges with ambitious technology providers that fast-track solutions innovation ecosystem connecting SMEs and Corporates.He holds an MBA from the UCD Smurfit School of Business industry.