Build the start-up ecosystem and the entrepreneurs will come

"Dublin’s case to become Europe’s answer to Silicon Valley is ‘come for the money and stay for the supports and networking’ – and it’s working, writes GORDON SMITH 

WAS IT JUST a coincidence that the winners of two Irish technology start-up competitions in 2011 both originated from outside Ireland? Maybe, but in the same year that a €10 million fund was launched to attract international entrepreneurs to these shores, it starts to look like part of a bigger plan."

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