Technology Leadership Award for UCC Spinout Company
16.12.2011

At the 2011 IT@Cork Leaders Awards, the winner of the Green Technology Award was 3 Pro Energy Watch Ltd. Noel Dillane, IT Director, PepsiCo and chair of the Green Technology Judging panel explained: “The winner of the 2011 Green Technology Award has shown great innovation in identifying a common energy and money saving opportunity and addresses it with technical and motivational measures. Together, these provide a technical solution, that can be widely applied, and also draws the user’s attention to the wider need to consider energy use”.

3Pro EnergyWatch CEO Seán Cronin, in accepting the award, thanked Dr Anthony Morrissey of the Technology Transfer Office at UCC for his support in assisting EnergyWatch to spin the technology out of the University. The original business concept was developed by a student team from the MBS (Business Information Systems) and Dr Brian O’Flaherty, Business Information Systems, acted as Principal Investigator in the follow-on Enterprise Ireland funded phase. The project received extensive support from the department over a two year period and four BIS Graduates are shareholders in the company. The company was incubated at UCC's Gateway Incubation Centre, but soon outgrew its incubation site and is now based in Douglas with seven employees, and further growth is anticipated in 2012.

Picture L-R: Dr Patrick Morrissey (UCC TTO), Sean Cronin (CEO EnergyWatchIT), Gavin Duffy (Dragons' Den, RTE), Dr Anthony Morrissey (UCC TTO).

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