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a new foundation for science
Science Foundation Ireland
Ireland: The Celtic Tiger and R&D
The National Foundation for Excellence in Scientific Research
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The “Celtic Tiger” EconomyThe “Celtic Tiger” EconomyIreland’s Economic GrowthIreland’s Economic Growth
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1970-79 1980-87 1988-93 1994-2003
EU
US
Ireland
AverageAnnual% RealGDPGrowth
Source: OECD Economic Outlook
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The Irish EconomyThe Irish Economy
1990 2003GDP €m 36,312 137,867
GDP per capita € 10,357 35,197
Merchandise exports 18B 81B
Total Debt GDP 96.4% 33%
Total Labour Force 1.3M 1.9M
Inflation 3.4% 3.5%
Unemployment 12.9% 4.8%
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The “Celtic Tiger Economy”The “Celtic Tiger Economy”Success in the 90’s:Success in the 90’s: Why?Why?
• Public policy e.g. Education
• Corporate tax
• People, skills, costs
• US boom, IT growth, EU Single Market
• Performance of Irish managers
• Flexibility, agility, creativity
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Ireland’s urgency to create a knowledge base
• Competition in low cost manufacturing
• Little research infrastructure
• Little industrial research
• Small population and science base
• Little tradition of partnership
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Government Strategy:Government Strategy:The Celtic Tiger in R&D?The Celtic Tiger in R&D?
• Move Ireland up value chain: research- and innovation-
driven economy
• Attract, Grow R&D activities within Ireland
• Broaden the activities of MNCs within Ireland
• Be supportive of indigenous SMEs, start-ups
SFI is a key component in this strategy
• build research excellence & and human capital
• foster academic-industry collaboration
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Science Foundation Ireland:Science Foundation Ireland:A Brief History of SFIA Brief History of SFI
• Technology Foresight Report – April 1999
• Focus on ICT & Biotechnology
• SFI launched – July 2000
€646M from Dept of Enterprise, Trade & Employment
• Director General appointed 2001
• SFI becomes statutory body, summer 2003
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Irish & SFI Imperatives
• Build top quality R&D teams
• Attract and build industrial research
• Build on tradition of entrepreneurship
• Create culture of partnership
• Inter-university
• University-industry
Maintain momentum of growth
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SFI Actions to build & brand Irish R&DSFI Actions to build & brand Irish R&D
• Invest in best people & best ideas• Principal Investigator Award ~ €250k-€1M (4 years)
• President of Ireland Young Researcher Award ~€1M (5 years)
• Women in Science Career Advancement Awards
• Import leading scientists• SFI Research Professorships ~€2.5M (5 years)
• Create centres of critical mass • Centres for Science, Engineering & Technology (CSET) ~ €25M (5 years)
• Establish International Partnerships• Walton Visitor Award; Conferences & Workshops
• University-University-Industry Partnerships• Centres for Science, Engineering & Technology (CSETs)Centres for Science, Engineering & Technology (CSETs)• Industry Research Partnership Supplements ~€50k /yearIndustry Research Partnership Supplements ~€50k /year• And ALL SFI programsAnd ALL SFI programs
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Some examplesSome examples
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Principal Investigator GrantThe Photonic Systems Group
• World-renowned research team of four PIs led by Dr. David Cotter
• Team was formerly based at the Corning Research Centre (formerly BT Labs, 2000)
• Partnership with the Tyndall Institute
“SFI contintues to seek out opportunities like this that bring
together Ireland’s outstanding researchers with other first-rate
researchers from around the world” - Bill Harris, SFI Director
General
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Industry Research Partnership Supplements: Industry Research Partnership Supplements:
Siemens & RCSI
• Prof. Jochen Prehn
Computational analysis of signalling networks during apoptotic nerve cell death
• Dr Denis Shields
Chemopeptidomics: Computer linkage of human proteome-derived short peptides with non-peptide drugs
• Dr Gerard Cagney
Systems and algorithms for protein identification and quantification
Examples:
• Collaborative projects
• Directly related to & enhance existing peer-reviewed projects
• Normally up to €50k (for PhD or post doc)
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Investigator Programme:Industry collaborative partnerships
Wyeth Medica, Archport, Amersham & DCU€4 million SFI investment over four years
Professor Martin Clynes:
Gene Expression Profiles of Cultured Animal Cells for Improved
Biopharmaceutical Production Processes
Wyeth Research & UCD€7.2 million SFI investment over four years
Prof Ciaran Regan (with UCD and TCD collaborators):
Applied Neurotherapeutics Research Group
Examples:
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Research ProfessorshipsA recruitment tool
Prof. Luke Lee
Research Title: Programme in BioMEMS
Home Institute: University of California, Berkley, USA
Prof. William Harrison
Research Title: Supporting Service-Oriented Software Development
Home Institute: IBM Thomas J. Watson Laboratories
• Outstanding researchers with distinguished international reputations
• Urgency about recruitment
• Awards normally up to €2.5M over 5 years
Examples:
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ETS Walton Visitor AwardsETS Walton Visitor Awards
In honour of Ireland’s 1951 Nobel Laureate in physics
• Bringing International researchers from academia and industry to Ireland for periods of 3-12 months
• Strengthening Ireland’s connections to the international research community
• Enhancing Ireland’s reputation & culture as home of first-class research
• Fostering recruitment of excellent undergraduates, graduate students & post-docs
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Prof. Jack Dongarra
Research Title: High-Level Programming Models & Tools for Grid Computing
Home Institute: University of Tennessee, USA
Dr. Christopher Fuchs
Research Title: Quantum Information Theory
Home Institute: Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA
Prof. Peter Wellstead
Research Title: Control as a Systems Technology for Technology Development
Home Institute: UMIST, UK
ETS Walton Visitor AwardsETS Walton Visitor Awards
Examples:
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CSETs - Centres for Science, CSETs - Centres for Science, Engineering, & TechnologyEngineering, & TechnologyCampus-Industry PartnershipsCampus-Industry Partnerships
• SFI funding: up to €25 M (€5m/yr), over 5 yrs, renewable
• True centre: whole greater than sum of parts, synergy…
• Partnerships with industry: 20% cost share (particularly people) Real intellectual partnerships
• Strategically important to Ireland Inc.: advancing BioT and ICT
• Research excellence: potential to be best in world – “edge”
• Outstanding Director
• Important Education & Outreach component
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Alimentary Pharmabiotic CentreDirector: Prof Fergus Shanahan
Web: apc.ucc.ie
Biotechnology CentresBiotechnology Centres
Regenerative Medicine
Institute
Director: Prof Timothy O’Brien
Web: remedi.nuig.ie
Centre for Future Diagnostics & HealthDirector: Prof Brian MacCraith
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Digital Enterprise Research InstituteDirector: Dieter Fensel
Web: www.deri.ie
Centre for Research on AdaptiveNanostructures & NanodevicesDirector: John PethicaWeb: www.crann.tcd.ie
ISERC
Irish Software Engineering CentreDirector: Prof. Kevin RyanWeb: www.iserc.ie
ICT CentresICT Centres
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Centre for Telecommunications
Value-Chain-Driven ResearchDirector: Donal O’Mahony
Web: ctvr.tcd.ie CTVR
ICT Centres ICT Centres continuedcontinued
In cooperation with IDA Ireland:
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Education & OutreachThe next generation of Irish Scientists
• Speakers for Schools
STARs
• SFI Junior Scholarships: Young Women in Science
• STARs: Science Teacher Assistant Researchers
• Outreach Activities at SFI Research Centres
• UREKA: Undergraduate research experience awards
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Biotech Investments (€170M)Areas of Expertise, Intrinsic Strengths
Agri-Food
Medical Devices
Immunology
Microbiology
NeuroScience
Cell Biology
16%
35%8%
16%
9%
4%
12%
Systems
Biology
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ICT Investments (€230M)Areas of Expertise, Intrinsic Strengths
Hardware Sectors
40%
18%
19%
15%
1%
7%
Nanotechnology 56m Transmission Systems 25m
Photonics 26m Advanced Manufacturing 21m
Storage 2m IC Research/Semiconductors 10m
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Software Sector
30%
16%22%
16%
14% 2%
Software, Engineering & Artificial Intelligence 27m Networking & Communications System 14m
Knowledge & Web Base Systems 20m Computer Modelling & Visualisation 14m
Information Systems 13m Language Technologies 2m
ICT Investments (€230M) cont’d
Areas of Expertise, Intrinsic Strengths