CIT’s Relationship with Industry through

Collaboration, Service Provision and Research

Orla Flynn

Thursday 4th September 2014

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Topics

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ENGAGEMENT

INFRASTRUCTURE

ECOSYSTEM

EXEMPLARS

CIT’s Engagement Philosophy(Things we Worry About)• How do we work with companies from an

innovation point of view?

• If someone has an idea, what services do we providevia our ILO/Rubicon/R&D?

• If a company wants to collaborate with us, howdo they go about doing this?

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Business

Enterprise

Professions

Community

Infrastructure

Extended Campus

Research and

Innovation Supports

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CIT Extended Campus• CIT established the CIT Extended Campus in November

2011 following successful lead in SIF-funded collaborative REAP project

• Facilitates sharing of information and practice - on engagement, external organisations and contacts in order to support and contribute to institutional strategy and knowledge.

• A single point of contact for external organisations seeking to interact with academics and researchers in CIT for graduate formation, workforce development or research and innovation.

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Three Pillars of Engagement (from Sheridan, 2014)

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CIT Engagement

Graduate Formation

Research and Innovation

Workforce Development

• Curriculum design• Course review/advisory

boards• Guest lecturers/

masterclasses• Site visits• Work Placement• Work-based projects

• Recruitment• Customised course

development• CPD• RPL• Work-based learning

• Consultancy• Use of equipment and

facilities• Exploitation of research

outcomes• Licensing and Patents• Incubation centres

Industry Liaison Office (ILO)

Licenses / Assignments / Options / Spin Outs / Spin Ins

Enterprise Programmes

Advice / mentoring for start-ups

BioExplore

Photonics

CIT’s Research and Innovation Ecosystem

Exemplars• PMD Solutions (Myles Murray)

• Alanya – start-up company working with Rubicon and Nimbus, development of technology for animal health monitoring systems

• Radisens – award-winning start-up company working with Rubicon, Nimbus, MEDIC and CAPPA, developing new Point-Of-Care diagnostic technology

• UTRC – multinational company, working with Nimbus collaboratively to build energy management solutions

• Exxcel – at Rubicon, Female entrepreneurship programme targetting the STEM sector – starting SOON

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THANK YOU!

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