UCC Innovation

UCC Innovation, part the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, is responsible for creating economic and societal impact from UCC research through the commercialisation of ideas and technologies and knowledge exchange.

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Check out the technologies that are available for industry and entrepreneurs to bring to commercial use.

Entrepreneurs

If you are staff or a student looking to create a company, UCC Innovation has resources that can help.

UCC Innovation's aim is to capture the commercial potential that exist in the ideas, expertise and opportunities created by UCC research excellence. We are responsible for technology licensing, campus company establishment, UCC's patent portfolio management, the Gateway UCC Incubation Centre and IGNITE, our Graduate Business Innovation Programme

UCC innovation is supported, in part, by funds from the Enterprise Ireland Technology Transfer Strenthening Initiative. As part of this funding UCC is delighted to have a working collaboration with Munster Technological University's Innovation & Enterprise Office in Cork and the Research Office in Tralee, Teagasc and the Agriculture and Food Development Authority to embed common technology transfer practises within the consortium of a international standard.

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Women entrepreneurs take top awards at UCC’s SPRINT Awards

Women researchers won all accolades at the 2023 GatewayUCC’s SPRINT Awards.
The awards celebrate the commercialisation of research to address key health, social and environmental issues.
GatewayUCC supports researcher-led start-up and spin-out companies.

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23 Mar