Research to Facilitate Immigrant Business Entrepreneurship
Professor Jack Pinkowski, Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale Florida, U.S.A. is conducting research over the next six months in Dublin City Council. The research involves community input to define issues, challenges, and opportunities for immigrants in becoming entrepreneurs. The Fulbright Scholar would like you to participate in a focus group to contribute to the research. This directly relates to the objectives of Dublin City Council to create and facilitate opportunities for new enterprise creation, especially among the various immigrant communities that have added new talent to Dublin City.
To define the issues and challenges for immigrant business entrepreneurship several focus groups are being organized among communities of interest over the next two months. These will include established business people, prospective entrepreneurs, student groups, NGOs, ethnic and cultural organization representatives, and others. The goals for these focus groups are to inform public policy recommendations that relate to challenges and opportunities for establishing new enterprises in Dublin City by entrepreneurs who are not Irish Nationals.
If you are interested in participating, please email Jack.Pinkowski@dublincity.ie with FOCUS GROUPS in the subject line. You will receive via email a brief questionnaire to collect contact details and your preferences regarding times and places, possible formats, and suggestions for topics of discussion.
Focus groups are meetings of interested subjects who share ideas and opinions on some topic of mutual interest. The meetings are facilitated by a discussion leader who helps them bring focus to views, opinions, and issues that they have in common and who records and reports the collective inputs from the group meeting.
Your time commitment need not be more than a few hours. There is no compensation for participants, which is entirely voluntary. Your input is very important and highly valued.