University College Dublin wraps up its inaugural commercialisation bootcamp for academics.
University College Dublin (UCD) has completed its first ever commercialisation bootcamp, a five-week long course for academics which aims to strengthen UCD’s commercialisation opportunities.
The bootcamp, held at UCD’s centre for new ventures and entrepreneurs NovaUCD, seeks to address a general lack of knowledge of the commercialisation process by equipping academics with the knowledge, skills and understanding to engage with the sector.
UCD, which will run the bootcamps twice a year moving forward, sent 37 academics to the bootcamp, all of which had a piece of research or technology which they believe would be suitable for commercialisation. Some of the projects presented will now go on to participate in VentureLaunch, a three-month accelerator programme which is replacing NovaUCD’s Campus Company Development Programme.
Peter Richardson, a postdoctoral research at UCD and a participant on the course, said: “After completing the UCD Commercialisation Bootcamp at NovaUCD we now have a deeper awareness and understanding of what it takes to build a commercialisation plan around our research outputs. Participating on the Bootcamp has been a great experience and we are now looking forward to putting all we have learned into commercial practice in the near future.”
