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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 bring together innovation, experience, and connections. Innovation Marketplace is the organisation that helps businesses find the right pathway to grow and scale.
  • Collaboration with startups, corporates, and investors
  • Expertise in business growth, mentoring, and investment readines
  • A hub for innovation-driven ventures
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Skillnet Innovation Exchange

Connecting large businesses facing innovation challenges with ambitious technology providers that fast-track solutions
The Innovation Exchange connects scaling tech companies with innovation-focused corporates through a structured, fully managed programme. We accelerate digital transformation by giving corporates direct access to cutting-edge solutions, while enabling solution providers to secure enterprise sales, gain market insight, and build lasting partnerships. Over 1,000 companies have already engaged.
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Pathway
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Innovation is a recognised driver of competitiveness, resilience, and growth within SMEs, however, in Ireland, innovation in small to medium sized enterprises (SME) remains a challeng. It is widely reported that Irish SMEs are underperforming in RD&I compared to their EU counterparts of comparable economies. Key challenges include skills gaps, limited resources and competition from larger firms.
Addressing these gaps is essential for SMEs to adopt new technologies, meet market demands, scale their business and enhance competitiveness.
  Pathway to Innovate focuses on embedding innovation and entrepreneurship practices in SMEs across Ireland through targeted upskilling and regional clinics. It provides SMEs with practical tools, actionable insights, and strategies to drive measurable success. From funding, training, mentoring, and more, there is a whole host of supports available to help regional SMEs innovate. The challenge is identifying which resources are right for your business.
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Innovation
Marketplace UK

Sister and Innovation Marketplace Ltd are piloting an Innovation Marketplace in Manchester.
Our ambition is to develop an Innovation Marketplace ecosystem across a number of cities in the UK in 2026 and beyond.
The overall objective is to commence the development of a thriving innovation marketplace in Manchester that will connect Corporates, SMEs and Academia to drive the Digital transformation agenda.
Sister, Manchester’s new innovation district, will help expand this proven program into the North West, building a UK-Ireland economic corridor that delivers high-impact commercial outcomes for SMEs and corporates

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Green Grid
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The transition to a Net0 economy requires widespread adoption of cleantech solutions and enhanced grid resilience, yet many SMEs face barriers to scaling their innovations and integrating them into energy-intensive industries. Industrial SMEs, which are major energy consumers, often lack the expertise and resources to optimize their energy use, while cleantech SMEs struggle with market access, financing, and industry collaboration opportunities. Additionally, regulatory and market barriers further slow down the deployment of clean energy technologies.
The Green Grid Eurocluster addresses these challenges by empowering cleantech SMEs, enhancing energy system resilience through renewables, and driving the Net0 transition. The project bridges the gap between industrial SMEs seeking to implement energy-efficient solutions and cleantech SMEs developing innovative Net0 technologies, ensuring that both groups can thrive in the renewable energy and digital economy sectors. Green Grid helps cleantech SMEs scale their solutions, integrate into industrial systems, and expand internationally. By leveraging European and international networks such as EEN & ECCP, Green Grid supports cross-border collaboration, enhances EU strategic autonomy, and positions European SMEs as key players in the global clean energy transition.
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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.

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