John Kennedy talks to Dr Rich Ferrie, director of UCC Innovation. Rich oversees GatewayUCC which has 55 spinout and start-up companies that employ 330 people full-time, IGNITE which has worked with 100 start-ups and UCC Consulting which is just about to launch.

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