Ideagenat

Letterkenny Institute of Technology

24th November 2010

Liam Sweeney

Industrial Development in Ireland

IDA - Attract foreign companies to Ireland.

Enterprise Ireland - Develop indigenous companies.Enterprise Ireland - Develop indigenous companies.

The aim is to create employment and generate exports

Enterprise Ireland’s services for client companies

•Management strategy and advice

•Productivity improvement building competitiveness

•Export information and advice

•Funding supports and programmes

•R&D Research and innovate

R&D Research and Innovate

•Supports for Companies•R&D and Innovation funding•Source / license new technology •Access EU and ESA research supports•••Collaboration between companies and research institutes

•Researchers in Higher Education institutes•Collaborate with industry•Research Commercialisation•Technology Transfer support•EU programmes and networks

Industry Led Research Schemes

Competence Centres

(~€1 million per annum over 5 years)

Industry Led Research Programmes

(~€2-3 million over 2 years)(~€2-3 million over 2 years)

Innovation Partnerships

(~€250k over 1-2 years)

Innovation Vouchers

(Once off payment of €5K)Size of

budget

Number of

Ind. Partners

Collaboration

Complexity

What Industry wants

ILRP’s in existence

� WiSen: Wireless Sensor Networks

� PEIG: Power Electronics Industry Group

� IMS ARCS: IP Multimedia Subsystem Advanced

Research Cluster for ServicesResearch Cluster for Services

� ELITE: E-Learning Ireland Technology Platform

� BioPAT: The Biopharmaceutical Process Analytical

Technology Network

� BIOMON: Bioprocess Monitoring

� POCit: Point-of-Care Immunotechnology

Competence Centres in existence

Applied

Nanotechnology

Two ICT Themes (interconnects, Lasers);

Biosensors Theme ; Convergence Theme

Bioenergy /

Biorefinery

Algae and Grasses as feedstocks ; Conversion

processes to biofuels and co-products ; Refining

Energy Efficiency

in Manufacturing

Clean Rooms, Compressed Air, Low grade Heat

Conversion, Monitoring ; (ECO energy parks)in Manufacturing Conversion, Monitoring ; (ECO energy parks)

Manufacturing

Productivity

Training of operators, Overall equipment efficiency,

Simulation, Metrology, Process Control

IT Innovation (IVI) Capability Maturity Frameworks ; IT and Innovation

CMFs, Green Computing ; Services innovation

Composites Joining of Composites ; Moulding High Tg Polymers ;

Nanotechnology in composites

CMOS Circuit

Design

High Speed Serial communications ; Smart nanoscale

circuits ; High performance smart circuits ;

Wireless Business Opportunities

� Proliferation of sensors and actuators

� Wiring is disruptive to the user� Wiring is disruptive to the user

� Opportunities

� Machine to Machine

� Health monitoring

� Energy

� Many others

Wireless Opportunities in Energy

� Reducing energy bills

� Energy monitoring – human intervention

� Automated energy management� Automated energy management

Wireless Opportunities

� Electric vehicle charging infrastructure

� ESB going to tender in early 2011

� 1500 public charging points� 1500 public charging points

� IT system for payment

� Wireless communications

Wireless Opportunities in Energy

� Automated metering

� Electricity

� Gas� Gas

� Water

� Single communications channel ?

Wireless Opportunities in Energy

� New electricity business models

� Demand Management

� Time of use tariffs � Time of use tariffs

� National solutions

� Local solutions