NovaUCD 2007 Campus Company Development Programme Awards Evening
The 12th NovaUCD Campus Company Development Programme Awards evening took place on 21 November 2007.
The aim of the NovaUCD CCDP, which is sponsored and supported by Enterprise Ireland, is to assist academic entrepreneurs in the establishment and development of new business ventures to commercialise the output of their research.
The overall winner of the 2007 Programme was AP EnvEcon.
AP EnvEcon is a provider of decision-support systems, solutions and specialist advice to the public and private sector for the management of environmental change. AP EnvEcon is a spin-out from the Environmental Economics Unit of UCD’s School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy and was co-founded by Professor Peter Clinch and Dr Andrew Kelly.
Dr Andrew Kelly and Professor Peter Clinch, co-founders of AP EnvEcon, overall winners of the NovaUCD 2007 CCDP Award
NovaUCD 2007 CCDP Awards press release
The guest speaker at the awards evening was Oliver Tattan, founder and CEO, Vivas Health.
Professor Mark Keane UCD Vice-President for Innovation; Dr Pat Frain, Director, NovaUCD; Professor Peter Clinch, AP EnvEcon, Oliver Tattan, Vivas Health and Tom Hayes, Enterprise Ireland
Two other projects participating in this year’s Programme, Q-Validus and 2Do.ie were shortlisted for this year’s event and received runner-up awards.
Q-Validus is an international certification solutions provider located at NovaUCD. Q-Validus’ management team is combining its experience in certification programme development and delivery with industry best practice to manage and deliver high quality certification programmes. Q-Validus’ promoters are David Carpenter, Garry Cleere and Dudley Dolan.
David Carpenter, Q-Validus
2Do.ie is a highly interactive and social networking website designed to provide a strong goal and achievement setting support network for people of all ages. The promoters of 2Do.ie are Shirleen Flynn, Peter Finnegan and JP Wickremasinghe.
Peter Finnegan, JP Wickremasinghe and Shirleen Flynn, 2Do.ie
For further information contact:
Micéal Whelan, NovaUCD, Tel: (01) 716 3712, e-mail: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie
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