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UCC Research & Innovation Awards - 180 Years of Impact


Nominations for the 2024 awards are now open


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Scale & Grow SMEs with UCC and Enterprise Ireland


On Tuesday 8th April, UCC and Enterprise Ireland will present funding opportunities to scale and grow your company through research and innovation.


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Showcasing the companies that have emerged from UCC Innovation over the years, illustrating a diverse range of technologies across a wide variety of areas.


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Available Technologies


View our current portfolio of technologies that are available to license.


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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

20 Mar 2025

From Ideas to Impact: Join us at Innovation Week

UCC's Innovation Week will take place this year from April 7th - 11th. The aim of Innovation Week is to showcase some of the excellent innovations from across the UCC ecosystem, and to encourage UCC students, graduates, and researchers alike to think about the different ways that their ideas and research can be transformed to create economic and societal impact.
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12 Mar 2025

€3.2M licence income distributed over last 5 years from UCC’s commercialisation activity

€3.2M of UCC licence income has been distributed university-wide over the past 5 years, with €1.3M distributed to inventors and a further €920K distributed to inventors’ schools and research centres. These are among the figures reported in UCC’s Innovation Impact Report for 2024, launched today by Vice President for Research and Innovation, Prof John Cryan and Director of UCC Innovation, Dr Sally Cudmore.
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28 Feb 2025

UCC and Tyndall spin-out shines a new light on augmented reality

Vivid Photonics, a spin-out company from Tyndall National Institute based at University College Cork, has developed a breakthrough technology poised to revolutionise image quality in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR). 
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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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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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