Ireland’s entrepreneurs step up a gear but still a way to go

Nearly a decade since the onset of the recession, we see a new confident breed of companies driving the economy, creating jobs and fuelling government coffers, writes John Whelan

Today’s entrepreneurs have shown they know the culture required to build a business in a technologically driven, digital environment.

However, we are still only average in creating new business start-ups compared to the rest of the EU according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).