The Nova Innovation Centre is a 5,000 sq.m. centre located at Merville House on the Belfield campus. The building has been built to nurture new knowledge-intensive, high technology enterprises. The Nova Centre will provide incubation space for start-up-companies and will also provide a comprehensive range of facilities and programmes to stimulate entrepreneurship, technology transfer and innovation.
Phase 1 of this project consisted of a 2,850 sq.m. building which includes space for over 40 incubation units.
Phase 2 was the refurbishment of Merville House which is an 18th Century listed building.