Published on Friday5thJuly2013
Bruton launches Global Entrepreneurship Report for Ireland
Minister Bruton, Paula Fitzsimons, Report Co-Author, and National GEM Coordinator, John OíHare, Founder and CEO Azotel, Elaine Coughlan, Founding Partner, Atlantic Bridge and Colm O'Gorman, Report Co-Author.
Jobs Minister Richard Bruton today launched the Global Entrepreneurship Report for Ireland for 2012. The report shows that 19,000 people started new businesses in Ireland in 2012, and highlights the findings that new business start ups are increasingly innovative and that the majority expect to find customers in export markets. The Report also shows that for the first time the growth aspirations among women entrepreneurs have considerably increased and the gender gap in this area has been almost eliminated.
The GEM report is supported by Enterprise Ireland, Forfas and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. The authors of the report are Paula Fitzsimons of Fitzsimons Consulting, who is the National GEM Co-ordinator, and Dr Colm O'Gorman, Professor of Entrepreneurship, DCU Business School.