NovaUCD

What NovaUCD offers

NovaUCD offers three types of services:

• a comprehensive business support package comprising advice, seminars, consultancy, workshops and individual training for entrepreneurs and start-up companies;
• an incubation centre for campus companies;
• the primary contact point for companies seeking partners for collaborative research or wishing to pursue other commercial opportunities.

50 high-tech and knowledge-intensive companies, have occupied incubation space at NovaUCD and availed of NovaUCD’s related innovation services since 2004. 156 new ventures, 15 in 2009 alone, and 235 individuals have also completed NovaUCD’s Campus Company Development Programme (CCDP) which has run annually since 1996. NovaUCD’s CCDP assists academic and research entrepreneurs in bringing their innovative ideas from intellectual concepts to fully-developed and sound commercial business enterprises.

26 innovative companies are currently located at NovaUCD. These include Alternative Energy Resources (AER)  winner of 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ‘Rising Star’ Award, BiancaMed, one of the companies recently shortlisted for the Irish Times Innovation Award 2010 and RendezVu, overall winner of the 2009 David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Award.