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Spin-out Company: Exceedence

“UCC Innovation have continued to engage with us throughout our journey and have been open to hearing and learning from our lived experience as a University spinout. These learnings have often been taken on board by the UCC Innovation team, and we have continued to participate in their commercialisation support initiatives such as the SPRINT Accelerator program and the Digital Badge in IP and Innovation."

- Dr Ray Alcorn, CEO and Founder - Exceedence

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Spin-out Company: CergenX

“The licence negotiated with UCC Innovation gives us access to the world’s largest database of fully anonymised neonatal EEG recordings. This data bank is key to our algorithm development programme. We are using AI to identify infants that are most at risk of brain injury to allow hospitals refer these infants for further testing and treatment.”

- Jason Mowles, CEO - CergenX

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Spin-out Company: Neurobell

“UCC has supported us through every step of the journey, from early stage accelerators as a PhD student through to navigating the VC landscape.”

- Dr Mark O' Sullivan, CEO & Co-Founder - Neurobell

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Start-up Company: Telea

“There was quite a structure in IGNITE, that we learned how to develop our roadmaps and set ourselves small targets along the way, to hold ourselves accountable. I think that whole process of development and creating milestones definitely helped.”

- Clare Meskill, Founder & CEO - Telea

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UCC Consulting: CTCHC Reports

“Having UCC Consulting on-board on these projects was very valuable as they undertook the contract negotiations with the client and streamlined the processes. This allowed me to focus more on the consultancy itself, ensuring that my MPlan students were availing of a rich learning experience while building strong relationships with the project stakeholders.”

- Jeanette Fitzsimons, Lecturer - UCC’s Centre for Planning Education & Research Centre

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News

27 Jan 2025

Innovation in Action in UCC: Constructing creativity through LEGO SERIOUS PLAY

As part of our Innovation in Action in UCC series, we spoke to Dr. Briony Supple, Senior Lecturer in Design Thinking Pedagogy and Praxis at UCC about LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP); a powerful, hands-on methodology that uses LEGO bricks to facilitate creative thinking, problem-solving, and communication. 
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20 Jan 2025

UCC and INFANT spin-out company Cergenx secures FDA support for neonatal brain injury device

CergenX, a pioneering Irish neurotech company specialising in AI solutions for neonatal brain monitoring, has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation for its innovative “Wave” device. Additionally, CergenX has been accepted into the FDA’s Total Product Lifecycle Advisory Program (TAP). 
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09 Dec 2024

IGNITE UCC alumni named in the Sunday Independent's Thirty Under 30 List

Two IGNITE alumni have been named in this year's Sunday Independent Thirty Under 30 List. Shannen O' Reilly of TrustDish and Elvis Seporaitis of Volta Robotics have both been selected by the Sunday Independent as young business trailblazers to look out for in 2025.
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25 Nov 2024

UCC’s Entrepreneurs in Residence appointed as Adjunct Professors in the College of Business and Law

University College Cork (UCC) has appointed its five Entrepreneurs in Residence as Adjunct Professors within Cork University Business School (CUBS) in the College of Business and Law.
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UCC Innovation is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the ERDF Southern, Eastern & Midland Regional Programme    2021-27

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