The Emerald Isle promotes its venturing strategy in the first of a new series of places trying to support its entrepreneurial ecosystem.
At the same time that nearly 100 other countries held their global entrepreneurship weeks, Ireland hosted the IBM SmartCamp competition and its head of government said the nation aspired to be an innovation hub.
Brian Cowen, Ireland’s taoiseach, in mid-November said: "Our goal is to make Ireland a global innovation hub and I would like to extend an open invitation to all our international visitors [to the IBM SmartCamp] to return to Ireland and to take advantage of the hospitality…
