NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at University College Dublin today announced strong commercialisation results for 2008.
NovaUCD highlighted that UCD researchers are generating an invention a week as 53 invention disclosures were reported to NovaUCD during 2008. A total of 184 inventions have now been disclosed to NovaUCD during the 5-year period to end 2008.
Thirty-eight patent applications, including 25 priority, 6 PCT (patent co-operation treaty) and 7 national/regional applications were filed by UCD during 2008. These patents were filed for intellectual property arising from research taking place throughout the University’s Colleges, Schools and Institutes. A total of 122 patent applications, including 70 priority patents, were filed by UCD in the 5-years ending last year. In the last four years 38 licence agreements were concluded by UCD with a range of indigenous and international companies.
Pupils at Scoil Ide National School have raised over €7,500 for the Meningitis Research Foundation by recycling old mobile phones.
The students at the County Limerick primary school have collected over 1,400 old handsets, receiving 14 new laptop PCs for their efforts from Click.ie and BPI Telecom. “We are thrilled and amazed at the determination of the pupils at Scoil Ide for this campaign,” commented Maurice Muldoon, managing director, Click.ie. “They are supporting a great charity and will benefit from the new laptops in the process.”
The Click.ie schools campaign is part of a programme organised by BPI Telecom which hopes to raise up to €1 million for the Meningitis Research Foundation by requesting the public to donate old mobile phones.
The work of the Kerry Diocesan Youth Service is being hit by Government cutbacks.
Funding to the service has already been cut by 10 percent and the organisation is currently examining how it will absorb these cuts, reports Radio Kerry.
The KDYS operates 52 youth clubs around the diocese, which is among the largest amount of clubs in any geographical areas in the country.
NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at University College Dublin today announced strong commercialisation results for 2008.
