Invent Commercialisation Awards

A total of 13 awards have been presented at the annual Invent Commercialisation Awards ceremony at DCU.  These awards were established by Invent DCU to publicly recognise DCU researchers who work with Invent to protect and commercialise their research and span three categories: licence options; licences to existing companies and licences to spin-outs.

The ceremony was officially opened by Professor Brian MacCraith, President of DCU who commented on the wonderful achievement of the Invent DCU office as being the leading technology transfer office in the country for the fifth year in a row. DCU is certainly punching above its weight having executed 20 licences from a total of 118 nationally and spinning out 7 companies from a total of 30 nationally. These are impressive figures indeed and in keeping with developing DCU's reputation as the University of Enterprise.

Invent was delighted to have Dr Mazhar Bari as guest speaker.  Dr Bari is a serial entrepreneur and focused on delivering solutions for energy efficiency and smart grid applications. He is a mentor for several new technology start-ups and an entrepreneur in residence at the National Digital Research Centre in Dublin. Dr Bari gave an inspiring talk on how working on research challenges will help solve huge problems such as climate change. He firmly believes that the capability is currently there world-wide but we just need to bring all the elements together in a cohesive manner.

Drawing the event to a close, Richard Stokes, Director of Invent, said,

"These individuals have demonstrated great initiative in the commercialisation of their technology and both DCU and Invent value the time and effort researchers put into commercialising their research.  As the commercialisation gateway of DCU, Invent has the infrastructure, the ability and the expertise to assist and advise industry, academia and researchers in their innovation, commercialisation and business development endeavours.”