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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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Our Impact

€125m Research Income in 2022/23

Highest ever research generated income

44 spin-out companies created since 2008 based on UCC Intellectual Property

UCC have 20 European Research Council grant awardees, 10 of which were awarded since 2021 in Horizon Europe.

190 graduate founders working on 160 start-up ideas, the most successful of which now employ almost 370 staff

2,853 publication outputs in 2021

105,343 citations (2019-2021)

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Photo: UCC awardees in the 2024 Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship and Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship awards.
30 Oct 2024

Early career researchers receive prestigious Research Ireland funding

Early-stage researchers at University College Cork (UCC) have received over €4.6m in research funding in the 2024 Government of Ireland (GOI) Postdoctoral Fellowship and Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship awards.
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Anne O’Leary, Head of Meta Ireland, and President of IBEC, the Irish Business and Employers Confederation, who was today conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by UCC for her services to business and technology, her charitable works, and for advancing the position of women in the workplace. Photo: Daragh McSweeney, Provision
24 Oct 2024

Head of Meta Ireland and IBEC President Anne O’Leary honoured with UCC honorary doctorate

Anne O’Leary, Head of Meta Ireland, and President of IBEC, the Irish Business and Employers Confederation, was today conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by University College Cork (UCC) for her services to business and technology, her charitable works, and for advancing the position of women in the workplace.
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Photo: Dr Joanna Wharton, School of English and Digital Humanities. Image credit: Ruben Martinez (UCCTV).
17 Oct 2024

UCC researcher to investigate Georgian-era surveillance communications that pre-date the telegraph

Dr Joanna Wharton receives prestigious €590,262 Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland Pathway Programme award. LINC project offers new perspectives on pre-electrical telegraphic cultures, during the period 1794-1850. The project contributes to a historically informed debate on the legacies of surveillance, secrecy, and technological acceleration.
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Professor John O'Halloran, President of University College Cork; Rachel O'Leary, Director of Consulting & Business Engagement and Sean O'Driscoll, Chair of UCC's Governing Authority pictured at UCC’s Business Engagement Event.
Pic Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision
16 Oct 2024

“Irish Universities can and must be much better at engaging with business”

“Irish Universities can and must be much better at engaging with business” states Sean O’Driscoll, one of Ireland’s business leaders, and chair of the Governing Authority of University College Cork (UCC).
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