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U N I VE R SI T Y COLLEG E DU BL I N

CR E AT I NG VA LU E FROM K NOW L EDGE

Research & Innovation
Success 2004-2014

3,836

PhD and research masters
students conferred over
the past ten years

UCD commercial
outputs

€864m
4,940 318
in external funding for

l

research projects

Over 1,000 Irish and international
companies collaborated with UCD
researchers in the last ten years

patents filed

445 disclosed
inventions
81 licence
agreements
2004-2013

European Commission’s investment in UCD’s Research and Innovation

€101,000,000
An increase of 232% since 2004

SFI invested

UCD researchers engaged with

€303m 2,261
in research in UCD

international
collaborators

in over

67

2

countries on
funded research
projects

Over €5m

commercialisation
income
Spin-out company

ChangingWorlds

acquired
for over

$60m