centre for entrepreneurship

Professor Roy Crawford, QUB; Jim Wolstencroft, IRTU; the Vice-Chancellor; Dr Sean Farren; professor Terri Scott

The Northern Ireland Centre for Entrepreneurship (NICENT), a joint venture between the University and Queen’s University, Belfast, was launched by the Minister of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, Dr Sean Farren in May 2001.

Dr Farren welcomed the initiative, saying:
“The new centre will work to promote innovation and enterprise, develop intellectual property rights and establish an interface between business and academia. With the advantage of its province wide campus access, NICENT is in a unique position to act as a major asset to the business and industrial community of Northern Ireland. It will add another dimension to our economic strategy that operates across a broad front.”

Professor Terri Scott, Director of the Centre said:
“Our vision is to create a new desire for entrepreneurship in Northern Ireland and to encourage young graduates to avail of the innovative research work being undertaken in the campuses of the province’s universities. This, we see, as pointing the way ahead for a more dynamic and self-sufficient society in Northern Ireland.”

NICENT has been made possible by the Science Enterprise Challenge, funded through the Office of Science and Technology at the Department of Trade and Industry. Since 1999, this scheme has allocated some £28.9 million through the University Challenge competition across the UK.

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