The right people
for the work ahead.
Connect with people who understand the work. Through member-hosted visits, practice groups, roundtables and introductions, members compare what they tried and what worked. IRDG helps members find relevant experience and apply what they learn to their own decisions.
Member-hosted visits
See how another team innovates.
Get real, in-depth insight into how companies innovate. Member-hosted visits take you inside R&D and innovation teams to understand the context, decisions and lessons behind a real approach. Each listing states who can attend and how to book.
Where the network has been
Recent member-hosted visits.
Members open their sites to the network: the process, the constraints and the things that did not work first time. These are three of the most recent.
Site visitTakeda
A biopharmaceutical manufacturing site, and how a regulated environment absorbs process change.
Site visitDawn Farm Foods
Product and process development in food manufacturing, from concept kitchen through to line.
Site visitEthos Engineering
Engineering consultancy, digital delivery and what a purpose-built workplace is designed to change.
Connection routes
Choose the connection you need.
Work through a live challenge with peers
Small member sessions for comparing approaches, testing methods and learning from implementation.
Explore current groups →Ask a candid question through IRDG
Send a question through the IRDG team. We remove identifying details before sharing it and return a practical synthesis of member experience.
Ask Members Question Time →Ask for a relevant introduction
Tell the member team what you are trying to understand. Where there is a useful fit and both sides agree, IRDG can make an introduction.
Request an introduction →Find relevant research expertise
Ask the team about universities, Technology Centres, Technology Gateways and Research Ireland centres relevant to your question, capability need or proposed collaboration.
Discuss a research connection →How Archway Roadmaster found research expertise →Regional and flagship
Meet locally. Connect nationally.
Regional gatherings around Ireland
Useful peer conversations near you, with a straightforward route into the wider network.
See Member Connect events →Member voices
For us, collaboration is a strategic building block, rather than just being a source of funds … collaboration is instrumental to our future-proofing the business.
In practice
How members used the network.
A question put to members, a research challenge circulated to the institutions, and the network as a route to companies and agencies — from accounts previously published by IRDG.
Takeda
Finding the right external support.
Archway Roadmaster
Finding research expertise for a first collaboration.
Fexco
Collaboration as a strategic building block, not only a source of funds.
Start with one useful conversation.
Tell us what you are working on. We will suggest a relevant event, group or member route.