Assistance

Campuses at Belfast, Jordanstown, Magee, Coleraine

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Categories: Community & Rural Development; Consulting; Incubator; R & D; Start-up Training; Training

The University of Ulster is the largest university on the island of Ireland.

The Regional Development Office co-ordinates direct linkages, partnerships and interaction with business, community, economic and regeneration organisations.

The Office of Innovation & Enterprise is responsible for identifying and exploiting the commercial opportunities arising from the University's intellectual property, business support services, and research park activities.

The University stakes a stake in spin-out companies through UUTech Ltd.

UU established UUSRP Ltd, a wholly-owned company, to develop and manage its campus-based science research parks.

UU operates a number of applied research centres:

• NI Centre for Diet and Health (NICHE)
• Centre for Innovation in Biotechnology (CIB)
• NI Centre for Energy Research Technology (NICERT)
• Biomedical and Environmental Sensor Technology (BEST)
• NI Centre for Bioengineering (NIBEC)
• NI Centre for Advanced Materials (NICAM)
• NI Knowledge Engineering Centre (NIKEL)
• NI Centre for Health Informatics (NICHI)
• NI Centre for Sustainable Technologies
• Engineering Composites Research Centre (ESRC)
• Fire Safety Engineering Centre (FireCERT)
• International Business Centre
• Northern Ireland Centre For Entrepreneurship (NICENT)
• Teaching Company Scheme (TCS)
• Manufacturing Technology Partnership (MTP).