Campus start-ups have magic touch

Increasing numbers of high-tech companies are emerging from third-level incubation centres.

The halls of academia may once have been associated with dusty books and tweed-suited lecturers, but the third-level sector is building a new image for itself as a springboard for start-up companies.

In recent years, the majority of Ireland’s third-level institutions have established campus ‘incubation’ centres.

These facilities are designed to foster entrepreneurship and provide a commercialisation route for research carried out ...