22
Dublin City University Innovation and Enterprise Centre Transforming knowledge into commercial success Why Work with DCU? Paddy O’Boyle Invent DCU

20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

Embed Size (px)

Citation preview

Page 1: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

Dublin City University

Innovation and Enterprise Centre Transforming knowledge into commercial success

Why Work with DCU?

Paddy O’Boyle Invent DCU

Page 2: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

2 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Page 3: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

3 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

My Punch Lines……

There are smart

people in DCU who

can help your

business

Funding is available

for the right

projects

My job is to make

the process simple

Page 4: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

4

Current Role

• Business Development at DCU

Previous Experience

• Worked at Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent

• UK & US

• Various business development, marketing and strategy roles

Education

• Undergraduate Engineering Degree

• MBA

© 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Background

Page 5: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

5 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Spectrum of Activities @DCU

Page 6: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

6 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Page 7: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

7 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Commercializing Applied Research

Researchers’

Own Ideas

Company Idea

or Challenge

Industry Collaborations

Start-Ups Licences

Page 8: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

8

1 Sensor Web 2 Information

Systems

3 Cloud

Computing

4 Networks &

Communications

Engineering

5 Image

Processing &

Analysis

6 Language

Technologies

8 Health & Human

Performance

7 Manufacturing

& Materials

Engineering

9 Data

Analytics

Page 9: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

9 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

“In the Zone”

Indoor Micro-Location Technology

ITZ is a mapping and location system for developers of smartphone apps. It contains a toolkit that includes an SDK and access to the ITZ platform.

The ITZ technology has numerous

applications, however we have focussed our

commercialisation efforts on one key market

segment: Consumer Apps in retail

In-store navigation, ad serving, dynamic

content experience, coupons etc…

Page 10: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle
Page 11: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

11 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Company

Page 12: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

12 © 2012 Copyright Invent-DCU

Company

Page 13: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

13

Innovation Partnership Model

Research & Expertise

Funding & Supports

Idea & Market

© 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Company

Page 14: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

14 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

• Existing companies

• Already have a core product and expertise

• Project will allow you to scale or enhance your products

When? Does it Make

Sense to Work with a

University?

Why? Top Reasons

Companies Consider an

Innovation Partnership

• You need to access new expertise

• You only need expertise for a short time

• All resources are used on existing business

• There is risk and the funding mitigates this

• Association with the university brings credibility

Company

Page 15: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

15

How Do You Apply?

1. Talk to TTO and then to key researchers

2. Rolling call for proposals every month

3. University does all the “heavy lifting” in proposal writing

4. Feasibility study optional

© 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Page 16: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

16 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Company Project DCU Team

OpenJaw Technologies Ltd.

• OpenJaw Technologies delivers high performance distribution solutions to leading travel companies

• OpenJaw’s products are widely deployed and the company has expanded rapidly

Database Optimisation

• DCU research team have developed innvative techniques to enhance current product preformance

• DCU has expertise in XML optimization

School of Computing

• Interoperable Systems Group

• Led by Dr. Mark Roantreee and Dr. Gerard Marks

• Research team supported by OpenJaw President John McQuillan

Page 17: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

17 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Example Project: Ecovolve

Page 18: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

18 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Example Project: Ecovolve

Page 19: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

19

DCU Team for Project with Netwatch

© 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Prof Noel O’Connor

Principal Investigator

Jogile Kuklyte Dr. Jian Zhou Ramya Murthy Hebbalaguppe

Dr. Leo

Gualano

Dr. Kevin

McGuinness

Dr. Cem

Direkoglu

Page 20: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

20

Example Innovation Partnership Team

© 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Leonardo Gualano

Project Manager

BEng (Hons) Computer and Electronic Engineering, Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence

Academic and industrial background. Multiple publications in high quality conferences and journals. Experience in engineering project management.

Jogile Kuklyte

Researcher

Undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering, finishing PhD in Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Graduated from DCU with 1st class honours

Noel O’Connor

Principal Investigator

14 years experience of multimedia content analysis

13 PhD graduates to date; DCU President's Research Award for Science and Engineering 2010; Enterprise Ireland ICT Award for Innovation 2010

Name

Role

Experience

Achievements

Page 21: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

21

Example Innovation Partnership Team

© 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Ramya Murthy Hebbalaguppe

Algorithm Design & Development

Electronics and Communication, Masters in Computer Vision

Won best awards for research in past assignments (both in academia and industry).

Jiang Zhou

Research Assistant

Undergraduate Electronic Engineering, PhD in Machine Vision

1st class Honours. Third place in internal I2P (Idea2Product) Competition TCD

Cem Direkoglu

Consultant

PhD in Machine Vision, M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Publications in high-ranking journals and conferences in machine vision

Kevin McGuinness

Technical Consultant, Computer Vision and Machine Learning

B.Sc (Hons) Computer Applications, Ph.D in Computer Vision

Graduated top of undergraduate class studies.

Published in top-ranked Journals and conferences.

Page 22: 20130619 DCU Invent Why Collaborate with DCU, Paddy O Boyle

22 © 2013 Copyright Invent-DCU

Key Takeaways…..

There are smart

people in DCU who

can help your

business

Funding is available

for the right

projects

My job is to make

the process simple