Publications

Creating a globally competitive economy represents the overall ambition within the draft Industrial Strategy. Achieving this objective requires an understanding of Northern Ireland’s competitive strengths and areas where further improvement is needed.

This research, completed by Queen’s University Belfast, provides insights into how Northern Ireland’s SMEs have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic, based on data from the latest wave of ONS Business Impact of Covid-19 Survey (BICS) and the new ERC Business Futures

Prior to the implementation of the NI Protocol the Department for the Economy published research on the capacity of customs intermediaries in Northern Ireland.

Research project led by Energy and Utility Skills investigating the skills required for a transition to an advanced zero emission, indigenous diverse energy secure and circular economy in Northern Ireland.

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is an international project which seeks to provide information on the entrepreneurial landscape of 49 countries in 2022.

This page contains information and a report on the approach to creating jobs for the economically inactive in some European countries, New Zealand and USA. 

A new approach to Quality Assessment was implemented in Northern Ireland and England from academic year (AY) 2017.

Cost pressures were identified as a key issue impacting on local businesses during the downturn, but this was an area of concern to Northern Ireland business that had not been examined in depth since ERINI’s work on the costs of doing business in 2005.  As part of o

This report was commissioned to examine the opportunities and challenges presented to business in Northern Ireland by carbon emissions targets.

The Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment commissioned fDi Intelligence Ltd to assess the future prospects for attracting high value inward investment to NI.

Economic research

The 2015 UK Budget introduced a new National Living Wage for all workers aged 25 and over, and took effect in April 2016. It is the UK Government’s goal for the National Living Wage to rise to 60% of median earnings by 2020.

The Northern Ireland economy sells and purchases goods and services both within the local markets of Northern Ireland and Great Britain and exports and imports these internationally.

The following issues are dealt with in this letter:-

Using data on new greenfield Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) activity, this research examines the effect of Brexit uncertainty on the FDI-related job creation in Northern Ireland.

Since the publication of the Protocol, there has been significant debate on what it means for the local economy in terms of barriers to trade with Great Britain (GB).

This independent report reviews the progress that has been made towards achieving the vision set out in Access to Success.

This paper provides analysis of accompanied heavy goods vehicle (HGV) movements between Northern Ireland and Great Britain using mobile network data.

The following issues are dealt with in this letter:-

A total of 3,131 responses were received for this consultation on an application from Tamboran Resources UK (TRUK) Limited for a Petroleum Licence.

In December 2015, the Department commissioned the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre to undertake research on Further Education (FE) final year enrolments on regulated qualifications to identify the factors contributing to student outcomes based on three academic years d