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The Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre

An Lárionad Nuála agus Aistrithe Teicneolaíochta

NovaUCD 2010 Annual Report Available Online

The NovaUCD 2010 Annual Report, which outlines NovaUCD's 2010 results and related developments, is now available online.

Click here to access the complete Report.

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Summary of NovaUCD's Key 2010 Achievements:

  • €650,000 generated from commercialisation of research
  • Nine new companies located at NovaUCD
  • Fifty-seven invention disclosures reported
  • Thirty-eight patent applications filed across all areas of life sciences, engineering and information communication technology including
    • 14 priority patent applications
    • 9 PCT (Patent Co-operation Treaty) applications
    • 15 national/regional patent applications
  • Sixteen licence agreements concluded with a range of indigenous and international companies
  • Fourteen new ventures completed the NovaUCD 2010 Campus Company Development Programme
  • Socowave successfully raised €3 million in funding
  • HeyStaks Technologies successfully raised €1 million in funding
  • UCD’s most successful licence to date, a BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) test, has now earned over €2 million in royalty income
  • The NovaUCD 2010 Innovation Award was presented to the Fault Analysis Group, UCD School of Geological Sciences
  • 37 knowledge-intensive ventures occupying over 90% of the incubation space located at NovaUCD at year end, including 8 companies in the desk space.

Click here for print version of the Report.

ENDS

31 March 2011

For further information contact Micéal Whelan, NovaUCD, t: +353 1 716 3712 , e: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie.