Where Entrepreneurship and Innovation Thrive
University College Cork is recognised as a premier European university for research, innovation applied entrepreneurship and commercialisation. Our unique infrastructure and resources, which includes BlackStone LaunchPad, IGNITE and GATEWAY UCC, supports entrepreneurial activity at the coalface. Our expertise in research, innovation, teaching and learning has attracted top staff, students, alumni, researchers, policy makers and industry into UCC’s diverse community of entrepreneurs and innovators. It has also won us many accolades including the Sunday Times University of the Year for 2016 and 2017, and being ranked amongst the top 100 universities in Europe for innovation by Reuters.