To make it big in America, Ronan McGovern’s initial business idea was to separate oil from water. Then the oil price crashed and he turned to beer. He’s just sold the resulting company, Sandymount Technologies, to the global engineering group Alfa Laval. McGovern recently moved back to Ireland after spending ten years in Boston. On a video call from his new home in Blackrock, Co Dublin, the 31-year-old entrepreneur is already thinking about his next move. Not so much about his next business idea yet – but about how to find that idea. As a true engineer, he is precise…

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