UCD is Ireland’s leader in industry engagement, with a long track record in forging strong strategic partnerships for research, innovation and talent development. UCD's research collaborations with industry have yielded:
UCD's research leaders have spearheaded major strategic research consortia nationally, cross-border and internationally, including XX with industry and non-profit collaborators under Horizon Europe programmes. Some examples include:
(opens in a new window)Valuation and Risk: An academic-industry partnership created as part of the Financial Mathematics Computation Cluster (FMC) to develop greater national knowledge and skills base for asset valuation, risk modelling and risk management.
(opens in a new window)NexSys: Next Generation Energy Systems, an all-island multidisciplinary energy research programme led by UCD Energy Institute.
Lisheen Bioeconomy Scaleup: A collaborative biotechnology platform between research performing organisations and industry to enable conversion of renewable biobased feedstocks into biobased chemicals, materials, food ingredients, biofuels and other bioproducts.
Precision Oncology Ireland: Ireland's leading and largest cancer research programme, now in its second phase.
UCD Research and Innovation has expert teams who work to build a collaborative ecosystem between research and industry.
The Research Partners team, lead by Dr Kate Johnston, advise and support academic leaders in the development of major research and innovation clusters. The team has extensive experience building and leading research alliances across diverse sectors, particularly establishing translational research environments, digital and data-enabled infrastructure, and partnerships linking academia, government and industry.
UCD is a leader in university innovation and entrepreneurship, supporting Irish and European industrial competitiveness, knowledge transfer, commercialisation and start-up support. Find more about how our dedicated teams can enable industry through access to research, partnerships and accelerator programmes.
Visit ucd.ie/innovation