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University College Dublin Appoints New Director of Innovation, Liam Cronin

Lead Author
Perrett Laver
Published
16 Jun 2025
Industry
Higher Education
Location
Dublin

University College Dublin (UCD) has today announced the appointment of Liam Cronin as its first Director of Innovation to drive innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialisation of research outputs within the University.

In this new key leadership role Liam will also be responsible for managing the strategic direction of the University’s activities delivered through NovaUCD in the areas of innovation, knowledge transfer and commercialisation, enterprise development and consultancy.

Liam takes up his new role today at UCD.

Professor Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact said, “University College Dublin plays a key leadership role in research and innovation and is at the heart of Ireland’s innovation and knowledge exchange ecosystem and I am therefore delighted to welcome Liam to UCD to take up this new position of Director of Innovation at the University.

I look forward to working with him to further drive the innovation agenda across UCD as outlined in Breaking Boundaries, the University’s Strategy to 2030, to enhance our leadership position in innovation, entrepreneurship and in the delivery of impact in the support of Irish and European industrial competitiveness.”

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