Igniting sparks of graduate enterprise

The annual awards of the IGNITE business start-up programme that supports third level graduates take place on Thursday at University College Cork. Pádraig Hoare spoke to director of the programme, Eamon Curtin.

Since launching in 2010 it has supported 60 start-ups and almost 80 founders, who have gone on to employ more than 150 people.

But Eamon Curtin, director of the IGNITE programme at University College Cork, says the team gets the same buzz every year about the new participants and the possibilities that lie ahead.