Start-ups expected to create 90,000 jobs

The Government is targeting the creation of more than 90,000 new jobs by start-up firms over the next five years.

Launching the Government’s new National Policy Statement on Entrepreneurship in Ireland — the first of its kind — Jobs Minister Richard Bruton yesterday said that while the country has “many great entrepreneurs”, it doesn’t have enough of them.

The key target of the new strategy is a doubling of the 93,000 jobs currently linked to start-up companies. It is largely based on recommendations published earlier this year by the expert forum on entrepreneurship, chaired by Irish-American entrepreneur Sean O’Sullivan.