Grow: A Digital, Innovative & Competitive Enterprise Sector

This is a plain text version of the Chapter Summary for Chapter 3 of "Digital Ireland – Connecting our People, Securing our Future" report. Read the full report.

We are focused on growing our digital economy and domestic capabilities, remaining a location of choice for investment and startups, and a global hub for applied AI innovation. We are committed to working with our industry partners to achieve our ambitions, and drive productivity and competitiveness.

This chapter sets out:

• A new sectoral AI Adoption Strategy for the enterprise sector in 2026; a new Enterprise Ireland AI Roadmap and AI Sector Champions; an awareness and literacy campaign for SMEs, and the establishment of an Observatory for Business AI Readiness (OBAIR).
• Our approach to positioning Ireland as a location of choice for AI and Digital startups, and applied AI innovation; building on sectors of strength and leveraging our research expertise by establishing an AI Research Centre of Scale, expanding CeADAR, progressing access to advanced compute capacity, a new AI Regulatory Sandbox, and a new Quantum Centre of Excellence.
• Our commitment to continuing to strengthen Ireland’s attractiveness as a location for global technology businesses to invest and grow; through continued stakeholder engagement, a new AI Office of Ireland, a new Large Energy User Action Plan, and optimising funding at EU level.