The Government runs the risk of investing too little too late in the entrepreneurial cycle if it doesn’t widen its own definition of entrepreneurship away from just start-up companies, and include college graduates.

IT is a pity that on the very day that two of the country’s universities announced a research partnership with the possibility of creating 300 companies and thousands of jobs that Eircom had to announce that it was abandoning its multi-million euro high-speed broadband plans.