Invent DCU Overview from Richard Stokes, CEO

At Invent, we work closely with DCU faculty and students, industry, government agencies and the local community to support and encourage the transformation of cutting edge research into innovative and commercially exploitable products and services. We have many years of helping individuals to start their own business. We provide 2,800 square metres of purpose built incubation space for technology based start-up companies, as well as offering a range of early stage and developmental business support services to our client companies.

We work with DCU researchers to identify innovations with commercial potential. We evaluate and protect the University’s research based IP through technology transfer, licensing and spin outs. We also provide business and marketing strategies for possible commercialisation. We use our extensive links with industry to help forge business and research partnerships and to market DCU’s commercialisation opportunities and research capabilities both nationally and internationally.

The Invent team works closely with DCU’s Office of the Vice President for Research, Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland to promote successful commercialisation of DCU research and to encourage and establish R&D links with industry.

Invent, was developed with the support of DCU, AIB and Enterprise Ireland.