We are grateful to the following enterprise and entrepreneurship partners for their ongoing support of IEEC2024.
IEEC2024 Host & Platinum Sponsor
At Queen’s we want to support our students and graduates to be the change makers the world needs. To develop ideas and create solutions to the challenges faced across the globe.
Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Innovation are fundamental elements of the 2030 strategy at Queen’s University Belfast. Our vision is to provide a single, co-ordinated focus to enhance our support to students and graduates. To increase the scale, scope and effectiveness of enterprise and entrepreneurship education and experience across the entire student journey.
Entrepreneurship and innovation provide vital skills for our students and graduates and can lead to economic growth, job creation, regional development, problem-solving abilities, adaptability, resilience, and global competitiveness. By fostering these skills, the region can create a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem and empower our students to become future leaders and contributors to society.
IEEC2024 Platinum Sponsor
Funded and supported by Belfast City Council, Tourism Northern Ireland (Tourism NI), Tourism Ireland, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, Ards and North Down Borough Council, strategic and corporate partners Translink, Belfast One, Diageo Northern Ireland, Value Cabs, ICC Belfast, Titanic Belfast, Hastings Hotels and Victoria Square, Visit Belfast is a public-private sector partnership that represents over 450 tourism businesses, operators and services.
As the city region’s Destination Marketing Management Organisation (DMMO), our core purpose is:
“To create and service visitors for Belfast and Northern Ireland in order to generate economic benefit and inclusive growth, creating jobs and prosperity for the city region, enabling Belfast to become a more sustainable place to visit, meet and live in.”
Our strategic aims are to:
Increase overnight leisure and business tourists;
Increase day trips;
Increase the length of overnight trips to Belfast;
Increase visitor expenditure; and
Raise visitor satisfaction levels.
Visit Belfast continues to drive visitor numbers and visitor spend focussing its activities in the areas that offer the biggest market opportunities; namely short-breaks, business tourism, day-trips and cruise arrivals. We also manage three gateway visitor information centres – in Belfast city centre and at the two airports; aimed at dispersing the benefits of a thriving tourism economy across the city and wider city region.
Visit Belfast represents more than 500 tourism businesses and services across the industry including accommodation providers, attractions, conference venues and services, tour operators, transport providers, entertainment venues, restaurants and cafes, pubs and clubs and event organisers; and provides an extensive range of marketing platforms for tourism businesses to promote their products and services to travel trade and consumers.
In marketing Belfast as a world class destination, we’re keen to work with businesses that reflect the best of what the city has to offer potential visitors.
IEEC2024 Platinum Sponsor
Innocare Group was founded in 2017 as an international innovation organisation. Drawing upon years of accumulated experience in the operation and management of technology incubators, and considering the current practical situation, we are creating a completely new international operational model for incubators from the perspectives of innovation investment empowerment, government-enterprise empowerment, operational empowerment, and brand empowerment. This involves building a comprehensive international operation model at various levels, including investment attraction, operation, and services.
Simultaneously, Innocare Group has established close collaborations with universities, science parks, technology transfer organisations, and international incubators in China. These collaborations focus on international research cooperation among universities, industry-academia-research collaboration, technology transfer, and cross-border entrepreneurial acceleration. In the future, we will actively become a more advanced international innovation organisation.