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

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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.

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ENDS

31 March 2011

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