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Dublin City University
Innovation and Enterprise Centre Transforming knowledge into commercial success
Why Work with DCU?
Paddy O’Boyle Invent DCU
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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
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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
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Background
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Spectrum of Activities @DCU
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Commercializing Applied Research
Researchers’
Own Ideas
Company Idea
or Challenge
Industry Collaborations
Start-Ups Licences
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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
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“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…
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Company
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Company
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Innovation Partnership Model
Research & Expertise
Funding & Supports
Idea & Market
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Company
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• 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
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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
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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
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Example Project: Ecovolve
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Example Project: Ecovolve
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DCU Team for Project with Netwatch
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Prof Noel O’Connor
Principal Investigator
Jogile Kuklyte Dr. Jian Zhou Ramya Murthy Hebbalaguppe
Dr. Leo
Gualano
Dr. Kevin
McGuinness
Dr. Cem
Direkoglu
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Example Innovation Partnership Team
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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
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Example Innovation Partnership Team
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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.
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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