Vice Chancellor of MS University (MSU) Professor Yogesh Singh and director of the Office of International Affairs Professor Sharad Bansal with DCU's Sylvia Schroeder, Head of the International Office, Ciarán Ó Cuinn, Executive Director of External and Strategic Affairs and Gary Obsorne, International Marketing Manager.

DCU inspires Indian innovation centre

Inspired by DCU’s success in innovation and entrepreneurship education, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda has decided to set up a centre for innovation.

Following a recent visit to Dublin City University, the Vice-Chanellor of MS University (MSU) Professor Yogesh Singh has announced his intention to establish an innovation centre to support start-ups, especially in the areas of IT and life sciences.

Invent, DCU’s innovation and enterprise centre, is credited by the Vice Chancellor with demonstrating how innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship in students, staff and alumni and people outside campus can transform knowledge and cutting-edge research into commercial success.

DCU’s student start-up accelerator programme, UStart, is the first of its kind in Ireland. Professor Singh learned about the €10,000 seed funding investment, office space, business development support, campus accommodation and mentoring on offer to student teams.

UStart is located at the DCU Innovation Campus, a new national centre for innovation in the cleantech sector, which is worth more than €5 trillion globally each year.

Professor Singh was accompanied on his visit by the director of the Office of International Affairs Professor Sharad Bansal.

They are pictured above with Sylvia Schroeder, Head of the International Office, Ciarán Ó Cuinn, Executive Director of External and Strategic Affairs and Gary Obsorne, International Marketing Manager.