Free seminar open to entrepreneurs

MINISTER for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock has urged businesses to avail of the opportunity to attend a Government-sponsored free seminar, Building a Business on Your Ideas, to be held in the Stillorgan Park Hotel, Stillorgan Road, Dublin 18, on June 20.

Organised by the Patents Office, the seminar is for small business-owners, entrepreneurs, inventors and start-up companies in Dublin and surrounding counties.

Speakers include experts from the public and private sectors and local entrepreneurs.

‘‘It is not generally known that over 80% of new inventions are derived from previous inventions, so during the seminar information will be provided as to where details of previous inventions can be sourced,” said Mr Sherlock.