OverviewSeptember 2004

The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology

Creating Wealth through Research and Innovation

Godfrey Gaston ECIT Operations Director

Background - QUB• In past 20 years QUB has created over 50 spin-out companies

• UK no 1 university for spin-off company revenues - £90M p.a.

• No 2 after Cambridge in terms of jobs created

• Leading Knowledge Transfer Programme in UK

• Extensive involvement with InvestNI over many years supporting FDI activity

• Developed the vision that led to the creation of the NI Science Park• Previously a derelict site on H&W Shipyard• 1500 new jobs created on Science Park since 2004• Generating at least £60m pa, ( est. £13m PAYE p.a.) to local economy• Significant numbers of other jobs in wider economy

Institute of Electronics Communications and Information Technology

ECIT Background

• Project began April 1st 2003 – initially £37M over 6 years – InvestNI - £8.5M – Department of Education and Learning - £5.5M– QUB £24M commitment over first 5 years

• £18M in new Research funding since

• ECIT building opened in September 2004 flagship for Northern Ireland Science Park

• Now houses around 160 people

• QUB researchers plus 21 early stage companies

• Also new £30M Centre for Secure Information Technologies

The NISP estate 2007The Legacy Building

The site for The Concourse

The Pump-House

ECIT

The Innovation Centre

White Star House

International Advisory Board

Mission

“To stimulate major opportunities for economic growth, by pioneering future directions and innovation in key areas of advanced technology through the integration of complementary research expertise in a world-leading facility”.

Approach to Innovation

Ideas Money

Research

Innovation

Research Commercialisation

Globally Leading Research

New advanced technology Products and Business Opportunities

Professional Business

Infrastructure

Senior Industry

ExperiencedEngineers

Key Attributes - Combining Research with Economic Development

• Globally leading research - in carefully selected areas that provide new exciting and potentially disruptive market opportunities

• Critical mass of innovative industrial and academic partners – aligning opportunity with key research expertise – Membership scheme/ international advisory board– Research links with industry and universities world-wide with comparable interests

• Work with industry - share longer term road-maps

• Over-the-Horizon” research in areas with strong market potential relevant to expertise – NOT “Me too” R&D

• Ambitious, “mission and team orientated” research that addresses major real-world problems

Key Attributes - Combining Research with Economic Development

• Essential not to compromise speculative “blue –skies” research

• Senior Engineering Staff with many years in high tech industry in addition to university research staff in the same environment.

• Bridge the gap between novel ideas and industrial application

• An “Open Innovation” Environment – Inflows and outflows of knowledge to/from collaborators used to

accelerate the innovation process

• New thinking/New Paradigm

• New support mechanisms

Mission Driven Grand Challenges

Examples

WP2. Multimodal Sensor System

WP1. System integration, user interaction and results exploitation

WP6. Re-usable implementation software toolkit

WP3. RF Modelling and counter measures

WP4. Multimodal dialogue management

WP5. Opportunistic, self-organising, wireless network development

Figure 1: ISIS System and Work Packages

ISIS: Intelligent Surveillance Sensor network for Public Transport

Centre for Secure Information Technologies

Anything that can be connected and would benefit from being connected will be connected

Institute of Electronics Communications and Information Technology

You see things and say “Why?” but I dream things

that never were and say “Why not?”

George Bernard Shaw

Dr Godfrey GastonCSIT Director

CSIT Mission

• To be the UK’s National Centre for Innovation and Knowledge Transfer in Secure Information technologies – globally connected

• Build on existing UK international industrial capability (global market currently £50bn p.a.)

• Radically change the way UK university based research, innovation and industrial commercialisation are coupled

CSIT Overview

Information Security CSIT - MAP

Systems Integration

People Security

Enabling Technologies e.g. Cryptography, Classification, Content Inspection, Video Analysis, RF Scanning etc.

Digital Media Public

Transport

Connected Health Financial Services

Event Security (e.g. Olympics)

e-Businesses

Home Security

Public Records

Counter Terrorism

Data Security Systems

Network Security Systems

Intelligent Surveillance

Systems

Wireless Enabled Security Systems

Strategic UK importance

£30M Funding – 5 years

• EPSRC (UK Government)– £4.7M research programme– £2.2M Core research staff

• Technology Strategy Board– £2.5M Core commercialisation support

staff• Industry

– To £7M cash and in kind• QUB

– £8.8M • InvestNI (Economic Development Agency)

– £5.4M targeted

Enterprise/Professional Education

• Entrepreneur in Residence Scheme (UK, US, EU) – mentors assigned to PoC teams etc.

• Enterprise Forum – business plan presentations to entrepreneurs, business

leaders etc

• Courses in entrepreneurship and business skills in Engineering

• Coupling of ECIT/CSIT with MBAs • Masters in Entrepreneurship – practical based

• Masters in Electronic Security

• QUB Innovation Lectures/Chief Executives Club – International Business Leaders

University links - Some examples

Grand Challenge Themes

• Convergence of physical and information security

• As applied to:– Security in a hyper-connected world– Secure corridors– Cloud computing

Open Innovation Process

DIRECTOR

Operations & Finance

IP and External

Contracts

Business Development Executive x 2

ProjectMgrGC1

Commercial Director

Academics,Post-docs,

PhDs:QUB & Other

Partner Universities,

eg UCL, Bristol, RHUL

InterestedMember

Companies

DSS

NSS

WESS

ISS

Thales

AirwaveSolutions

Other

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

WP5

WP6

WP7

WP9

Grand Challenges: Hyperconnected World & Secure Transport Corridors

ProjectMgrGC2

BAE

Outcomes Metrics Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Total

Research outputs Research income (£)Publications Keynotes

University engagement

Partnership agreementsJoint proposals

Industry engagement

Full membersAssociate membersContract research (£)Industry delegates trainedIndustry researcher visits

Knowledge transfer

Licensing dealsSpin outsSpin ins (new)IP donationsPatents filed

Financial performance

Total income (inc. IKC) £

Economic activity Jobs created

Metrics

Working with CSIT

• CSIT Membership• PhD Student sponsorship• Contract research• INI programmes• Knowledge Transfer Partnership• FP7 EU proposal

CSIT Membership

• Full (£30k) and Associate (£5k) levels of membership• Full membership

– Seat on CSIT Industrial Advisory Board• Guide and oversee research agenda• Define project areas• Set training agenda

– Early access to results• Early sight of IP with commercialisation potential

– Up-front license to use results for internal use– Leadership position at CSIT meetings/colloquia

• Network potential– Access to facilities – Leverage potential

Summary

• QUB long reputation of innovation and entrepreneurship

• ECIT playing a leading role in innovation– Excellence in research and commercialisation

• CSIT to take this to the next level

• Consistent with recent UK government review on national centres.