Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has made €6.9m ($8.8m) available to 62 research projects across 10 institutions in the country as part of the Irish Government’s push to commercialise more Irish research.

Benefactors from the new cash include Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Dublin, NUI Galway, University College Cork, Dublin City University, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, Tyndall National Institute, NUI Maynooth, Dublin Institute of Technology and University of Limerick.

Announcing the initiative at the Science Gallery in Dublin,…