Trinity wins at the Knowledge Transfer Ireland Impact Awards

Posted on: 12 April 2017

Trinity took home two major prizes at the annual Knowledge Transfer Ireland Awards, including the Initiative of the Year Award for the University Bridge Fund, a joint collaboration with UCD.  

Trinity, along with Ceramicx Ireland Ltd, also won the Collaborative Research Impact Award.

Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) held its annual awards ceremony on March 30th in the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. The awards ceremony is aimed at showcasing knowledge transfer initiatives in Irish Universities and Institutes which results in impact to the economy and society.

Trinity was also nominated in two other categories. The Licence2Market Impact Award with iDly Systems Ltd and for the Mature Spin-out Company Impact Award with Solvotrin Therapeutics.

Dr Declan Weldon, Head of the Office of Corporate Partnership and Knowledge Exchange in Trinity, said “Trinity’s capability to create partnerships that have impact was recognised with these two prestigious awards. The continuing development of our team, supported by KTI and Enterprise Ireland was evidenced with 4 nominations across all categories.

“Winning two awards where success was defined by our vision and ability to collaborate and form strong partnerships is a major achievement. The strength of the competition from other Universities and Institutes, in particular DCU, NUIG and DIT this year was evidence of Ireland’s growing Knowledge Transfer capability.”

Dr Cathal Wilson, Director of Ceramicx Ireland, said “Our winning result can only deepen our ongoing and successful partnership with TCD and will also embolden us to carry on developing our company”.  

The University Bridge Fund is a €60m investment fund that was established to accelerate the commercialisation of ground-breaking research and the scaling of global business. 

Knowledge Transfer Ireland is the national office that helps business to benefit from access to Irish expertise and technology by making it simple to connect and engage with the research base in Ireland.