UCD Environmental Change Management Start-Up wins NovaUCD 2007 Entrepreneur Award
Thursday, 22 November, 2007
NovaUCD Campus Company Development Programme 2007 Winner is AP EnvEcon
AP EnvEcon has won NovaUCD’s 2007 Entrepreneur Award after being declared the overall winner of the 12th NovaUCD Campus Company Development Programme (CCDP).
AP EnvEcon is a provider of decision-support systems, solutions and specialist advice to the public and private sector for the management of environmental change. AP EnvEcon is a spin-out from the Environmental Economics Unit of the UCD School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy and was co-founded by Professor Peter Clinch and Dr Andrew Kelly.
Environmental issues associated with climate change, air quality, transport management and land-use are major policy issues at national, European Union and global levels and will remain so for some time to come. This environmental agenda requires rapid and intelligent responses from the public and private sector. AP EnvEcon is providing high-quality systems and solutions for the public and private sector as they come under these increasing regulatory pressures to improve environmental performance.
Professor Peter Clinch is the Jean Monnet Professor of European Environmental Policy and Professor of Regional and Urban Planning at UCD. Earlier this year he was appointed to the National Economic and Social Council. Dr Andrew Kelly is an environmental economist who specialises in greenhouse gas and air quality emissions modelling, data analysis systems, transport demand management and all aspects of associated policy formation and negotiation.
In the last twelve years over 135 projects and 190 individuals have completed the NovaUCD CCDP which is supported by Enterprise Ireland. Previous award winners include
BiancaMed,
ChangingWorlds,
Lightwave Technologies and last year’s winner, Fitfone.
Dr Pat Frain, Director, NovaUCD, said, “The CCDP is NovaUCD’s main enterprise support programme, designed specifically to assist entrepreneurs in developing start-up companies established predominantly to commercialise university research.” He added, “New and innovative enterprises such as those which have completed this year’s Programme are critical for the sustained development and growth of Ireland’s knowledge-based economy.”
For further information contact Micéal Whelan NovaUCD, e-mail:
miceal.whelan@ucd.ie, tel: (01) 716 3712.
