35 new “spin-out companies” came from Irish third-level colleges in 2009. This is according to new figures from the Irish Universities Association (IUA).
The companies were created directly from campus research, mostly in the information technology sector, and bioscience or food areas.
The data covers 10 Irish academic institutions:
University College Dublin, University College Cork, University of Limerick, Trinity College Dublin, NUI Galway, NUI Maynooth, Dublin City University, Waterford Institute of Technology, Dublin Institute of Technology and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
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Author: Education Ireland
