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Licence of the Year

This award will be to an academic, researcher or team whose intellectual property (IP) or know-how was licensed to industry or a spin-out company in 2026 and has the greatest potential to result in commercial and socio-economic impact for UCC and Ireland.

Evaluation Criteria

 

 

 

Innovation
  • Innovative or creative thinking.
  • Potential to make major technological progress and show a high degree of inventiveness.
  • Demonstration of technology application with strong commercial potential, rather than purely scientific or technological achievement.
  • Priorities are focussed on innovations that deliver commercial outcomes.
  • Active engagement with business and/or private investment to see research applied and taken to market.

 

Impact
  • Demonstrate achieved, or potential to achieve, economic, social or environmental impact of the innovation.
  • National and/or International recognition of excellence.

How To Apply

Nominations for this award will open in February 2027.

Previous Winners

Year Awardee Affiliation
2025 Professor Padraig Cantillon-Murphy, Dr. Manish Srivastava, Dr. Killian O'Donoghue, Dr. Alexander Jaeger, Dr. Daniel O'Hare, Dr. Aleksandr Sidun School of Engineering & Architecture, Microelectronics Research Technology Centre
Tyndall National Institute
2024 Professor Mark Hutchinson, Professor Philip O’Reilly, Dr. John O’Brien, Dr. Panos Kyziropoulos Cork University Business School
2023 Dr. Conor O'Mahony, Carlo Webster, Andrea Bocchino, Ryan Sebastian, Fjodors Tjulkins Tyndall National Institute
2022 Dr. Emma McIvor and Professor Sebastian Wieczorek School of Mathematical Sciences at UCC and  Mercy University Hospital
2021 Dr. Anthony Morrissey, Dr. David McGovern, Dr. Ray Burke Tyndall National Institute

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