Opportunities exist for taught and research based degree programmes in the field. This one year, full-time programme focuses on assisting participants to identify and create businesses which are knowledge based, innovative in nature and have job creation and export potential. In year 2 the programme focuses on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and practice. Components of the course include small business consulting and an advanced entrepreneurship thesis. An entrepreneurship course is offered as an elective module on the Executive and Corporate MBA programmes.
Participants form teams of three or four persons and develop new business proposals.
There is an Entrepreneurs' Forum series at which leading national and international business owners share entrepreneurial experiences with students. Entrepreneurship is incorporated into two further graduate programmes taught by the College of Business, Recreation Management, and Business Administration. A Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies was established in 1992 and has a clear goal to undertake long term, leading edge research on entrepreneurship and the SME sector. The Centre seeks to enhance the development of entrepreneurship both in the Shannon region and the Irish economy in general. It builds its activities on a tripod of teaching, research and outreach activities.