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Research in Ireland - ICT Destination Europe – San Francisco December 13 th , 2013
Research in Ireland - ICT
Destination Europe – San Francisco
December 13th
, 2013
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Agenda
• Evolution of the ICT Industry in
Ireland
• Why Ireland?
• Science Foundation Ireland –
Supporting Research
• Sample Research in Ireland
Quadruple Helix Innovation
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Government/Public
Academic
Industry
Citizen
Government, Academia, Industry and Citizens collaborating together to
drive structural changes far beyond the scope of any one organization
could achieve on it’s own
Government policy
Prioritization of research
Analytics and Cloud are
2 key areas
Skills
Microelectronics
IDA: “Applied Research”
Applied Nanotechnology Cloud Computing
International energy research centre
E-learning
Analytics
IT Innovation
Energy Efficiency
Manufacturing
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) invests in academic
researchers and research teams who are most likely to
generate new knowledge, leading edge technologies and
competitive enterprises in the fields of science and
engineering underpinning three broad areas:
• Biotechnology (BIO)
• Information and communications technology (ICT)
• Sustainable energy and energy-efficient technologies
(ENERGY)
SFI – What do they do?
– Makes grants to Higher Education Institutes (HEI’s) in Ireland
– Based on competitive, international merit review for scientific
excellence and impact
– Train people
– Builds infrastructure
– Produces scientific results and technology
– Significant industrial linkages attracting, anchoring and starting
companies
– Leverages other research funding e.g. Industrial / EU / Charitable /
Philanthropic / International
People & technology transfer to Industry & Society
Industry more competitive, better public services
Higher value products/services
Higher living standards
Sample Research Centres in Ireland
Centres for Science Engineering & Tech
Digital Enterprise Research Centre
Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures &
Nanodevices
Telecoms Research Centre
Software Engineering Research Centre
Next Generation Localisation
Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
Strategic Research Cluster
ICT for Sustainable & Optomized Building Operation
Photonics – Integration from Atoms to Systems
FORME – Functional Oxides & Related Materials for
Electronics
Strategic Research in Advanced Geotechnologies
Federated Autonomic Management of End to End
Communications Services
Precision
Clique
Financial Mathematics
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SFI – “Platform Research”
– High Performance Computing
– Intelligent Analytical Interfaces
– Software Defined Radio
– M2M
– Linked data / Semantic Web
– Energy Harvesting
– Self Organising Networks
– Social Analytics
– Security / Privacy
– Sensor Fabrication
– Exascale computing
– Smart Grid
– Manufacturing research
– Swarm Intelligence
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– A research ‘engine’ of 3000 people, led by 500 leading
scientists
– 7 world leading research centres spanning several HEI’s and
industry
– 28 clusters of scale
– Annually:
5740 scientific publications
80 patent filings, 27 patents awarded
39 licensed technologies
10 spin out companies formed
583 companies partaking in 1,035 collaborations
€156m in leveraged non-SFI funding
SFI – The Results
Centre Title INSIGHT
Director Prof. Barry Smyth
Lead Institution(s) University College Dublin
Research Programme Description
• Big Data Analytics
• Capture, organise and, crucially, understand, this torrent of data is the basis for competition and growth within the global economy.
• Apply Big Data techniques in the areas of:
• Connected Health • The Discovery Economy
• INSIGHT brings together five major Irish research centres: CLARITY, DERI, Clique, 4C and TRIL
Academic Partners University College Cork, Dublin City University, National University of Ireland Galway
Budget & Research Team Size
€75.1m (€44.4m SFI + €30.7m Industry)
Large: 100+
Industry Partners Abbott Ireland EMC Ireland
RTÉ
Abtran Ltd.
Entercomms
Seagate
Accenture Flashpoint
Shimmer Research
Adaptive Mobile IBM Research and
Development (Ireland)
SkillPages
Adidas The Irish Times
Sports Surgery Clinic
AOL Keelvar Systems Ltd.
Storyful
Avaya Intelligent
Communication
Microsoft
TE Labs
Avego Newswhip
TreeMetrics Ltd
Bankhawk
NitroSell Ltd.
Tunstall Emergency Response
Beta Electronics Newswhip
UCB Pharma
BilFinger
NitroSell Ltd.
United Technologies Research
Centre Ireland Ltd
Cisco
Ontoforce
Elsevier Planitas
Contact Details Name:
Telephone:
Email:
Web:
Prof. Barry Smyth (CEO) Mr. Mike Turley (COO)
+353-(0)1-7162473 +353-(0)91-495-010
[email protected] [email protected]
http://www.insight-centre.org/ http://www.insight-centre.org/
Centre Title Irish Photonic Integration Centre (IPIC)
Director Prof Paul Townsend
Lead Institution Tyndall National Institute, UCC
Research Programme Description
Photonics is the use of light to obtain, convey or process information. It is an
underlying technology of worldwide telecommunications networks, and is used
increasingly in biomedical applications where light has to be easily delivered to
biological samples. The expertise within IPIC builds upon the research carried
out previously in the SFI funded photonics systems research group, photonics
packaging research cluster (PIFAS) and biomedical diagnostics institute (BDI).
IPIC will address the grand challenge of Photonic Integration, which the team
equates to the grand challenge of electronic integration in the 1960s. They will
develop novel integrated photonic component technologies addressing unmet
needs in the fields of communications and biomedicine.
Communications
Development of integrated photonic component technologies for short reach
optical interconnects and wide area networks
Biomedical
• Photonic Integration for Point-of-Care Diagnostics
• Photonic Device and System Integration Strategies
• Photonic Integration for Cell and Tissue Analysis.
Academic Partners University College Cork, Dublin City University, Cork Institute of Technology
Budget & Research Team Size
€23.2m (€15.2m SFI + €8.0m Industry)
Large: 50+
Industry Partners
Contact Details Name: Telephone: Email: Web:
Prof. Paul Townsend +353-(0)21-490 4857 [email protected] http://www.tyndall.ie/research/photonics-systems-group/townsend.html
Intel Lake Region
British Telecom Somex
Verizon Sensl
Finisar InfiniLED
Intune Networks Radisens Diagonstics
Firecomms Luxcel Biosciences
X-FAB Eblana
Pilot Photonics M/A-COM
To learn more log on to idaireland.com
IDA Ireland
+353 1 603 4000
To learn more log on to sfi.ie
Science Foundation Ireland
+353 607 3200
