Our work with many schools in the Dublin City area has shown that young people can be very good at creative thinking and with the use of the ideas generation tools covered on this site we think you should be able to come up with an idea for entering into the Student Enterprise Awards and hope to see you at the Dublin City Finals in March 2010 with your team and indeed we would like to see you being our entry in the National Finals in May 2010 in Tullamore.

Having ideas is about opening your mind to new possibilities and on this website under innovation we have given some ways in which you can challenge your thinking about business ideas.

Sometimes you need to look at little things that annoy you and see what you could suggest as a means of

changing whatever it is about the thing that annoys you. Sometimes a little change can make a huge difference and this takes thought.

Thinking about what you would like to happen next in relation to a product or idea can help you come up with ideas.

You need to put on your WHAT IF hat.

What if you changed the shape, what if you changed the colour, what if you changed the smell, touch, material etc. The possibilites are endless and the only limitation is YOU

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