It is shown how to construct * -homomorphic quantum stochastic Feller cocycles for certain unbounded generators, and so obtain dilations of strongly continuous quantum dynamical semigroups on C * algebras; this generalises the construction of a classical Feller process and semigroup from a given generator. The construction is possible provided the generator satisfies an invariance property for some dense subalgebra A 0 of the C * algebra A and obeys the necessary structure relations; the iterates of the generator, when applied to a generating set for A 0 , must satisfy a growth condition. Furthermore, it is assumed that either the subalgebra A 0 is generated by isometries and A is universal, or A 0 contains its square roots. These conditions are verified in four cases: classical random walks on discrete groups, Rebolledo's symmetric quantum exclusion processes and flows on the non-commutative torus and the universal rotation algebra.Key words: quantum dynamical semigroup; quantum Markov semigroup; CPC semigroup; strongly continuous semigroup; semigroup dilation; Feller cocycle; higher-order Itô product formula; random walks on discrete groups; quantum exclusion process; non-commutative torus MSC 2000: 81S25 (primary); 46L53, 46N50, 47D06, 60J27 (secondary).