Enterprise Ireland has launched this year's Competitive Start Fund (CSF) for women entrepreneurs.

In the new 21st century office, the continuing growth of the co-working space is establishing itself as a cost-effective communal answer to high rents and central locations in cities around the world.

Almost 220 jobs are to be created by entrepreneurial start-ups over the next 12 months.

A Dublin-based company which specialises in managing risk for companies processing payments is to create 22 new jobs as it embarks on an expansion plan into the Middle East, Africa and the US.

DUBLIN Business Innovation Centre (BIC), assisted in the establishment of 16 new export-oriented hi-tech Irish start-up companies in 2008.