800 jobs over two years announced at DCU

DCU's innovation campus has announced plans for 800 new jobs over the next two years.

The Dublin university will rebrand the new campus as DCU Alpha, it currently hosts 30 companies and 300 jobs.

The campus will offer office space and large manufacturing labs.

Executive Director Ronan Furlong says this mix makes it an attractive option for clean tech, industrial automation and internet of things companies: “That requires physical space and it is not the type of thing that is going to happen in a shiny glass box in Silicon Docs at €60 a square foot,it’s gong to happen somewhere else and the University is set up to do this based on our own capabilities and competences

“ The site is set up to do it based on the mix of physical buildings out there, ultimately it’s not being catered for currently in Dublin and that is where our target market is.”