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IRDG helps businesses doing R&D and innovation in Ireland build capability, understand funding routes, learn from experienced peers and bring industry evidence into policy.
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R&D Tax Credit value from Revenue, Corporation Tax — 2025 Payments and 2024 Returns.
“The generosity of members is that they give you their mistakes — so you don't make them again.”
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Our membership promise
Four ways members use IRDG
Influence
Bring industry evidence into policy.Member evidence carried into policy — pre-budget submissions, consultations and working groups.Explore influenceCapability
Build lasting in-house skill.Programmes and subsidised training that stay with your team.Build capabilityConnections
The right room, the right person.Practice groups, site visits and a year-round calendar — peers who may have faced a similar problem.Meet the networkFunding
Find the right funding route.Grants, the R&D Tax Credit and EU programmes — guidance from people who work on them daily.Understand fundingMember voices
In members' own words
The voices behind the numbers — a West Cork seafood processor, a global networks engineering site, the scaling Irish leader in drug process development, and a German multinational chemical company.
The value we get from IRDG, across training, funding, networking, and policy, far outweighs any other membership. It just makes sense.
One one-to-one session alone covers the membership fee — that's why it makes total business sense for our engineering team.
We could not have scaled the business as rapidly and as successfully without IRDG's support.
IRDG isn't just a membership, it's a strategic enabler. From training and events to introductions that lead to game-changing partnerships, the network continually helps us evolve, grow, and innovate.
How members use IRDG
Where members put us to work.
IRDG Innovation Skillnet
Subsidised training aligned to real capability needs — AI, digitalisation, sustainability and innovation management practice.
Explore Skillnet training →Events & peer learning
Innovation Practice Groups, site visits, executive briefings, leadership roundtables. Practical sessions, the right people in the room.
See what's on →R&D Tax Credit & policy
Industry-led representation with government departments and the enterprise agencies — the collective case for R&D.
Read our position →Membership value
Corporate membership — colleagues across your organisation can take part: leadership, R&D, finance, HR, product, engineering.
How membership works →An experienced outside view
Work through a live challenge with someone who has done it before. IRDG scopes the need, checks relevant experience and conflicts, and proposes a match subject to fit and availability.
Explore mentoring →Members Question Time
Put a candid question to the network through IRDG. Identifying details are removed unless you expressly agree otherwise, so you can ask the thing you would not ask publicly.
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Ireland's Innovation Index
The annual evidence base for innovation in Irish industry.
By IRDG and KPMG. The 2026 edition: 77% of 587 responses expect to increase R&D investment over the next three years, while large gaps in public R&D funding are evident.
What's on
Upcoming events
Practice groups, site visits, briefings and conferences run right through the year. Browse the live calendar and book your place.
If R&D matters to your business, make IRDG part of how you do it.
Join 300+ member companies using the network for funding, capability, connections and policy. Membership can start at any time of the year.
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The monthly briefing
Funding deadlines, event dates and one useful idea to put to work — once a month.