http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/UCC IrishCentral UCC en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/irish-university-hosts-first-ever-entrepreneurship-conference-139278208.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/irish-university-hosts-first-ever-entrepreneurship-conference-139278208.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:30:19 PST
An Irish university today opened its first ever entrepreneurship conference in a telling sign of the timesUniversity College Cork (UCC) today officially commenced its first ever 'Innov8' week, with college president Dr Michael Murphy telling staff and students that colleges had to equip students to be "job-creators rather than job fillers" at a time when jobs, whether fixed or temporary, are increasingly hard to come byThe week long series of events, including talks from local and national celebrity entrepreneurs, is designed to get students thinking about running their own businesses rather than merely working for themThe university has recently set up its first ever graduate-only business incubator in a bid to encourage students to think twice before jumping on the emigrant planes routinely hustling tens of thousands of desperate young Irish to foreign shores every year READ MORE ]]>