Danish Novazymes buys UCC spin-out company for €80m

Danish Novazymes buys UCC spin-out company for €80m

The €80m sale of Cork-based PrecisionBiotics is set to benefit shareholders including University College Cork (UCC), Enterprise Ireland and dozens of private investors alongside top executives at the probiotic gut health...

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University College Dublin Spin-out Seals €1.1 million Investment Round

University College Dublin Spin-out Seals €1.1 million Investment Round

PlasmaBound, a University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out, which has developed a novel surface treatment technology to enable global manufacturing industries to reduce product weight and meet fuel efficiency and carbon emi...

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TU Dublin Hothouse Spin-Out Kastus Receives European Innovation Council Grant

TU Dublin Hothouse Spin-Out Kastus Receives European Innovation Council Grant

The European Commission announced last week that Kastus, a spin-out company of TU Dublin Hothouse, would receive a grant worth over €1.6m. Kastus was one of 36 European companies selected for their pioneering work which ...

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European Commission Expert Group has made recommendations for EU-wide Knowledge Transfer Metrics

European Commission Expert Group has made recommendations for EU-wide Knowledge Transfer Metrics

An expert working group, convened by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) to consider a route toward a European-wide set of harmonised metrics for knowledge transfer across universities and other publicly ...

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UCD Spin-Out Awarded €4.5m from European Innovation Council

UCD Spin-Out Awarded €4.5m from European Innovation Council

SiriusXT has been awarded just over €4.5 million in blended (grant and equity) funding from the European Innovation Council

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