KERRY ATTRACTS TOP NAMES TO NOVEL BUSINESS EVENT
A call is going out to entrepreneurs and educators, to bankers and business students to come to Kerry this September for one of the business events of the year.
The Richard Cantillon School 2010 invites the public to explore economic solutions with leading experts.
Entrepreneurs & Economists - Consensus or Conflict? is the theme of the Richard Cantillon School 2010. The line up of speakers includes Brendan McDonagh, Chief Executive of NAMA, Colm McCarthy, the recently appointed Chairman of the Privatisation Review Board and of An Bord Snip Nua and many other leading policymakers and business practitioners from Ireland and beyond.
Jointly run by the Kerry County Enterprise Board and the North and East Kerry Development Partnership (NEKD,) The Richard Cantillon School 2010 will take place in Tralee from September 8th - 10th incl.
Now in its second year, The Richard Cantillon School seeks to provide a forum, whereby anyone with an interest in business - however big or small - will have a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with some of the top names in economic planning and business development. Delegates can choose from a wide-range of topical, panel discussions over the 3-day programme and discuss possible solutions for the country's economic crisis with the experts present. Topics up for
discussion include: "The need for entrepreneurial thinking in the public sector," "Social entrepreneurship - models of best practice" and "Teaching entrepreneurship". A tour to Cantillon heritage sites in North Kerry and gala dinner will facilitate more informal interraction between the speakers and delegates during the two evenings of the programme. The outcomes of the paneldiscussions will provide the basis of a White Paper, which will be presented to the Government after the event. The full programme can be downloaded from www.richardcantillon.com.
The Richard Cantillon School was established to celebrate Richard Cantillon; a Kerry man, who is recognised internationally as "the founding father of modern economics." Born in the coastal village of Ballyheigue in 1680, Cantillon spent his adult life in England and France, where he gained vast experience and wealth as a skilled banker and trader. He was also a brilliant intellectual and is widely acknowledged as the first economist to have developed insights into the role of entrepreneurship in society. It was he who coined the term "entrepreneur" to describe "the bearer of risks, inflicted by change and market demand"; a revolutionary concept in the early 18th century.
According to the event co-organiser, Tomás Hayes, CEO of Kerry County Enterprise Board:
"Cantillon had it all. As a skilled linguist, businessman and economic philosopher, he had both the practical know-how of doing business and a vision for its future. With Kerry now designated as the European Enterprise Region of 2011, we want to provide an annual forum for celebrating Cantillon in the county of his birth and fostering his legendary spirit of entrepreneurship to benefit the local community and wider society. It is up to the people of Ireland to get this country moving again,so we are encouraging anyone with an interest in business and community development to come along to this very affordable and exciting event."
Eamonn O'Reilly, CEO of North and East Kerry Development (NEKD) and joint organiser of the event added: "We want to highlight self-employment as a very desirable and achievable career option for people of any age. With one of the highest levels of entrepreneurship of any region in reland*, Kerry and the South-West is well positioned to build on this legacy of self-sufficiency and through it achieve a renewed and sustainable level of economic growth for the years to come."
To book a place at the Richard Cantillon School, contact the Box Office at Siamsa Tíre, Tralee:
Source: Global Economic Monitor (GEM) Study on Entrepreneurship in Ireland, 2008.
About Richard Cantillon (1680 - 1734)
Richard Cantillon was born in Ballyheigue, County Kerry in the late 17th century. He is recognised internationally as a brilliant intellectual and the founding father of modern ecomonics. A skilled banker and trader, he is widely credited as the first person to have used the word "entrepreneur" to describe the occupation of someone who is "the bearer of risks, inflicted by change and market demand." This was a revolutionary concept in the early 18th century. The word "entrepreneur" appears in his famous "Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General," which was published posthumously in French in 1755. The essay provides evidence of his pioneering approach to economic thinking and to the role of entrepreneurship in society.