Sponsored by Enterprise Ireland, Cruickshank Intellectual Property Attorneys and Grant Thornton, the Student Entrepreneur Awards offers third level students from all academic disciplines and courses of study, the opportunity to realise their entrepreneurial ambitions.
Geoff Wright, a final year horticulture student at ITB made the final and received a Merit Award and was given a cash prize of €1,500. He travelled to NUIG this week to present his idea: a company that sells a unique, newly designed plant pot that has the potential to result in drastic cost savings for wholesale container plant nurseries. According to Geoff from Longford, “No design for a pot currently exists that is suitable for automated production at scale, particularly for low-value herbaceous plants. My plant production process idea brings the benefits to wholesale commercial production – an industry worth 26 billion euros in Europe alone”.
Geoff went on to say “The horticulture syllabus at ITB is very broad and contains many enterprise/entrepreneurial subjects that have definitely contributed to my reaching the finals of the 2018 Student Entrepreneur Awards”.
Congratulations to Geoff in obtaining his merit award.
