Developing your ideas from concept to commercial completion Understanding the value of your skills and commercialising your discoveries MaynoothWorks is the bridge between Maynooth University’s researchers and the worlds of business, charity, and government around us. We will present you with genuine problems facing industry or society and challenge you, your research team, and your friends to solve them in innovative ways, drawing upon your technical and creative skills. Our role is to identify promising technologies and innovations, and to help you exploit them to the fullest degree – whether as a collaboration with industry, a patent filing to be licensed into a company, or even your own dedicated start-up. You are the next generation of technology innovators and business leaders: it’s our job to help get you there.
MaynoothWorks Business Innovation Centre (BIC)
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Your journey begins with our in-house, accredited
graduate skills programme. Maynooth University is the lead institute in a technology transfer alliance spanning Ireland’s South and East, partnered with Waterford, Athlone, and Carlow Institutes of Technology: researchers from all four centres work together to establish the market potential of discoveries made by our academic teams. The module equips you with the know-how to identify valuable tools, platforms, and expertise; to speak the language of industry; and to help you work with an entrepreneurial mindset, making the most of the opportunities around you. Those excelling in the module will be invited to extend their training, working with live companies on real problems to deliver valuable insights into their business model, operations, and market potential. This extended course and the follow-on opportunities it presents will provide you with the real-world experience, contacts, and credibility you need to take your ideas to the world, whether as a project leader in a fast-moving technology company, or as chief executive in your own company.
MaynoothWorks BIC is our startup incubator, embedded within the University community to provide direct links between students and early-stage enterprise. The BIC will provide you with the space, facilities, and mentorship to develop your ideas, amongst a community of peers who are often only a few years ahead of your own position. It provides the opportunity for free and open collaboration between fundamental
researchers in academia and the more applied focus demanded by business, to the benefit of both. Over the next twelve months, the BIC will be developing plans for a major makerspace to provide the tools you need to rapidly develop your ideas into functional prototypes – whether for research or commercial exploration.
