Trinity College, Dublin

The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College, Dublin was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland's oldest university. Trinity is located on College Green in Dublin, opposite the former Irish Houses of Parliament (now a branch of the Bank of Ireland). The campus occupies 47 acres (190,000 m²), with many attractive buildings, both old and new, centred around large courts and two playing fields.

Research and Innovation

Trinity College is the most productive internationally recognised research centre in Ireland. The University operates an Innovation Centre which fosters academic innovation and consultancy, provides patenting advice and research information and facilitates the establishment and operation of industrial laboratories and campus companies.

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In 1999 the University purchased an Enterprise Centre on Pearse Street, seven minutes walk from the on-campus Innovation Centre. The site has over 200,000 square feet (19,000 m²) of built space and contains a protected building, the Tower, which currently houses a Craft Centre. The Trinity Enterprise Centre will house companies drawn from the University research sector in Dublin.

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Trinity Enterprise Centre - Dublin

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Multi-disciplinary research

• Ageing Consortium
• Centre for Computing and Language Studies
• Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies
• Children's Research Centre
• CRITE, Centre for Research in I.T. in Education
• Employment Research Centre
• High Performance Computing Initiative
• The Policy Institute
• Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group
• The Sami Nasr Institute for Advanced Materials
• Trinity Centre for Bio-Engineering
• Trinity Institute of Neuroscience
• Institute for International Integration Studies
• Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research
• CRANN, Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices
• Centre for Gender and Women's Studies

Programmes in advanced technology

• Biotechnology - National Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Centre
• Metals Research - Materials Ireland
• Polymers Research - Materials Ireland
• Optronics - Optronics Ireland

Campus industrial laboratories

• Elan Corporation Laboratory
• Hitachi Dublin Laboratory
• Kinerton Ltd Laboratory

Current and former campus companies

• Authentik Ltd - Language Learning Resources
• Broadcom Ltd - Telecommunications Research Company
• Commencements Ltd - Management Consultancy
• Eneclann Ltd - Irish Genealogical Research Services
• EUnet - Internet solutions
• Identigen Ltd - Provision of DNA testing services for traceability of food
• Industrial Training Services Ltd - Training and Services for the IT industry
• Insight Ltd - Data Analysis Statistical Consultancy
• Institute of European Food Studies
• Iona Technologies Ltd - Software
• Irish Centre for European Law
• Nutriscan Ltd - Human Nutrition Research and Consultancy Services
• Scientific Resources Ltd - Quality Assurance for the food, agriculture and pharmaceutical industries
• Simtherg Ltd - Engineering consultancy and simulation software development
• Tolsys Ltd - Specialised hardware and software design in the area of fault-tolerant computers
• X-Communications - Multimedia research and development company