The overall objective of the programme is to have created ten scalable businesses, with global potential located in the Republic of Ireland.

Promoting entrepreneurship and facilitating the key infrastructural needs of Irish enterprise is vital to ensuring a vigorous pipeline of new High Potential Start-ups (HPSUs). Enterprise Ireland is committed to supporting the development of new companies as well as maintaining and growing internationally competitive businesses which in turn will improve the Irish economy.

"Building the innovation or 'ideas' component of the economy through the utilisation of human capital - the knowledge, skills and creativity of people - and the ability and effectiveness of that human capital to translate ideas into valuable processes, products and services". Innovation Ireland, March 2010