Award won by gaming innovators

DUBLIN: Dublin-based Breakout Gaming Concepts has won this year's Docklands Innovation Park Enterprise Awards.

DUBLIN:Dublin-based Breakout Gaming Concepts has won this year's Docklands Innovation Park Enterprise Awards.

Twenty-two-year-old Andrew Deegan and 28-year-old Brian Quigley from Breakout Gaming Concepts were also awarded €10,000 for having the best new investment proposal.

The two men had 15 minutes to present their business plans to the panel of judges comprising Owen Murphy from ACT Venture Capital, Cyril Maguire from Trintech, author and former American VC Diane Mulcahy, and Roger Hatfield, director of the Bolton Trust.

Now in its sixth year, the awards are open to companies based or incubating in the Docklands Innovation Park. The park is managed by the Bolton Trust, which was established in 1987 with a commitment to helping indigenous Irish enterprises.