{"id":130992,"date":"2025-09-04T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/130992\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:47:10","slug":"student-inc-showcases-business-ideas-from-70-student-entrepreneurs-at-mtu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/130992\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Inc. showcases business ideas from 70 student entrepreneurs at MTU"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 70 student entrepreneurs from nine Irish universities gathered at Munster Technological University’s (MTU)<\/a> Bishopstown Campus on last week to showcase innovative businesses developed during the Student Inc. summer programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 13-week immersive entrepreneurship programme, now in its 12th year, is led by\u00a0MTU\u00a0and backed both internationally and by the Higher Education Authority (HEA). <\/p>\n

Student Inc. is designed to equip students with the skills<\/a>, funding, and mentorship to transform their ideas into viable businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Students received \u20ac4,000 in seed funding, intensive training, and the opportunity to work in campus incubators, alongside established entrepreneurs. <\/p>\n

A hybrid delivery model enabled nationwide participation with students benefiting from world-class mentorship online, while still being connected to their home campuses.<\/p>\n

In addition to\u00a0MTU, this year\u2019s group included students from Atlantic Technological University (ATU), South East Technological University (SETU), Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), University College Cork (UCC), University of Limerick (UL), Mary Immaculate College (MIC), Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT), and D\u00fan Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The programme culminated in a final showcase with over 200 attendees, where each student was given the opportunity to present their businesses to judges, trainers, mentors, industry professionals, investors, and peers. <\/p>\n

The businesses covered a range of sectors, including creative, biomedical devices, career development apps, AI-assisted customer service platforms, food products, films, and games.<\/p>\n

At the showcase, awards were given for Best Poster and Best Pitch, which included: Sam McGrath from SETU for his business, Draft Drinks Beverage Dispenser, Natasha Myers from\u00a0MTU\u00a0for her board game BrightSparks; and Ali Zeeshan from TUS for his business, which is a sustained release drug for methane mitigation.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the programme, MTU president Professor Maggie Cusack said: “Student Inc. is more than just developing businesses, it develops mindsets, attitudes, and skill sets, and students with these skills are in high demand by future employers.”<\/p>\n

Carole O\u2019Leary, programme manager of Student Inc. at\u00a0MTU, added: \u201cStudent Inc. continues to demonstrate the strength of student entrepreneurship in Ireland. This year\u2019s showcase highlighted the creativity and ambition of our students, who transformed early-stage ideas into fully developed business plans in just 13 weeks. <\/p>\n

\"StudentJacob Dorill, Chelsea Awaziem, Miya George, Aidan O’Callaghan, Emmet Fitzharris, Faith Lockett, Barry Walsh, Zach Daly, front row from left: Matthew Moloney, Natasha Myers, Daniel Kramnov, Kara Stingo, Betul Kantaroglu and Niklas Hockman from MTU.<\/p>\n

“I want to warmly congratulate the award winners and commend every participant for their hard work and determination. <\/p>\n

“We are especially proud that a number of this year\u2019s cohort have already been accepted onto the New Frontiers programme, proving the invaluable pipeline that student entrepreneurship initiatives like Student Inc. provide to both regional and national innovation supports.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo: (l-r) Natasha Myers, Sam McGrath and Zeeshan Ali, winners at the Student Inc Showcase, The Arena,\u00a0MTU\u00a0Bishopstown Campus. (Pic: Supplied)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 70 student entrepreneurs from nine Irish universities gathered at Munster Technological University’s (MTU) Bishopstown Campus on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-130992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}