Barry Downes - Commercialising Research

Commercialising Research and how SMEs can get involved

BizCamp SOUTHEAST

Barry Downes12/06/2010

Background• Centre Started in 2006.

• Focused on Convergence: – Telecoms, Internet and Media.

• Applied Research which is Industry Focused.

• 100% funded by competitive research tenders / industry projects.

Research Area - Convergence

2010 1970’s 1980’s 1990’s 2000 Present Day

Some Examples of Our Work

• Sunday Telegraph, 24th February 2008“It was all a long time ago, but the voices and images

conjured by the new time machine at Culloden linger hauntingly in the memory.”

Wins Heritage Award

ZolkC wins the UK ‘Museums and Heritage Awards for Excellence’

MUZU.TV

Headway Wins ‘Jolt Award’

The 'Oscars” of Software Development Industry Honor Innovation & Technological

Achievement

Winner:

Structure101 for Java

JOLT Award San Francisco

A cloud based solution for enterprise mobility

Build a mobile app once using open standards and deploy everywhere

FeedHenry

Developer.feedhenry.com

3CS/FeedHenry Developer Workshop

3CS/FeedHenry Developer Workshop

Services to SMEs / Industry

Services to SMEs- 1• Collaborative EU R&D• Contract Research• Consulting • Technology Licensing • Corporate Venturing• Innovation Vouchers (Irish companies only)• NGN Test-bed

Services to SMEs- 2• Collaborative EU R&D:

– Partner with TSSG to access trans-European R&D networks;– Applied R&D looking 3-5 years into the future;– Work as part of a large consortium led by the TSSG;– e.g. T-Systems, Vodafone, Telefonica, Telcom Italia.

• Contract Research – EI Innovation Partners:– TSSG undertake R&D directly for company;– Project part funded by Enterprise Ireland;– e.g. O2 Ireland, Columba Global Systems, Munster Express.

Services to SMEs - 3• Consulting:

– Contact services and R&D, training and knowledge transfer.– e.g. Eircom – IMS technology evaluation.

• Technology Licensing:– License TSSG based technology directly;– e.g. Hash 6 Ltd licensing of Catch technology.

• Innovation Vouchers (Irish companies only):– Short problem solving projects for Irish companies – supported by EI;– 52 voucher projects completed over the past three years.

Services to SMEs- 4

• NGN Test Centre:– A production quality NGN Test Centre;– Globally available, with global connectivity;– Includes an IMS Core.

MetricsMetric 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Total

Innovation Vouchers 0 5 15 21 11 52

Large scale projects with industry e.g. Innovation Partners

2 2 1 0 2 7

EU Programmes (where local industry invited in)

4 1 1 0 2 8

EI Commercialisation Funding Projects (POCs / CF-TDS)

7 9 3 6 0 21

Spin-outs/Spin-ins (counted from when trading started)

2 3 2 2 1 10

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