LONDON CALLING – Irish tech start-ups may have to move to the UK to survive
Trends & challenges
By Virginia Linehan
“We have great entrepreneurs and start-up businesses in Ireland – we just don’t have enough of them”. This is the repeated view of the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton. On July 13th 2015, Enterprise Ireland announced a new €500,000 Competitive Start Fund (CSF) aimed at attracting entrepreneurs outside of Ireland to locate their start-up businesses in Ireland (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, 2015). The CSF coincided with Start-up Gathering 2015 the goal of which is “to make Ireland a global start-up hub by 2020”. Both initiatives are part of a broader strategy outlined in the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs. Keep reading
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