20140923 TCD Gateway to Corporate Partnership_John Whelan

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Partnering to deliver Impact

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Dr. John Whelan

Office of Corporate

Partnership & Knowledge

Exchange

Research and Innovation, Trinity College

Dublin

2 Trinity College Dublin

A research-intensive

University in the heart

of Dublin City

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Ireland’s leading

University Source: QS World University Ranking 2013,

THE World University Ranking 2013,

Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai) 2012

3 A University of Consequence

3 Office of Corporate Partnership and Knowledge Exchange – Creating impact and value from research

4 Research Metrics


The impact of Trinity research in Alzheimers Disease has put Ireland into 1st place in the world in this field

Trinity's impact in Molecular Genetics & Genomics has placed Ireland 1st place in the world*

Trinity's impact in Immunology has placed Ireland in 3rd place

Trinity's impact in Materials Science placed Ireland in 8th place

* In terms of citations per paper. Source: Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators

5 Research Strengths


Ageing

Cancer

Creative Arts Practice

Creative Technologies

Digital Humanities

Genes and Society

Identities in Transformation

Immunology, inflamation & infectiom

Inclusive Society

Intelligent Content & Communications

International Development

International Intergration

Mathematics of Complexity

Making Ireland

Nanoscience

Neuroscience

Next Generation Medical Devices

Smart & Sustainable Cities

Sustainable Environments

Telecommunications

6 Trinity Research Institutes


7 Globally Unique Infrastructure


3D Visualisation High Performance Computing Centre Computer Games Development

Cloud Computing Telecommunications Computer Vision Lab

8 Two sides to the story

Innovation Leader

Office of Corporate Partnership and Knowledge Exchange – Creating impact and value from research

Cultural, Educational and Research Leader

9 A New Perspective – Industry

Technology Transfer


Partnership Knowledge Exchange

10 Connections

Individual


Collabortors

11 Connections

Making these connections can be

simple


12 Connections

Difficult


13 Connections

Have up’s and down’s


14 Connections

Take a long time


15 Connections

Be complex


16 Connections

Lead to many dead ends


17 Connections

How Trinity can help


18 Trinity – A hub for innovation


Industry

Finance

Policy Research

The Office

of Corporate

Partnership and

Knowledge

Exchange

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Licensing Knowledge Exchange New Investment Spin-out Company People Exchange

Impact

Single Interface to Impact


Impact

Trinity

World Class Research Unique Infrastructure International Students Track Record of Industry Engagement Irelands Leading University

SFI Horizion 2020 Enterprise Ireland Health Research Board Entrepreneurs Industry Others

Research Ecosystem

Identify funding opportunities Agree area of collaboration Support proposal preperation

Activation

Terms and conditions Intellectual property Governance Reporting

Contract

CDA MTA IP Training Entrepreneur Training IDF Patent

Project

Ideas

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Enterprise Ireland

Technology Centres

Innovation Partnerships

Innovation Vouchers

Technology Developments

Proof of Concept Awards

Business Commercialisation

Science Foundation Ireland

Pl Fundamental Research

Centres - Industry Facing Research

Research Centre Spokes

Short term Industry Visiting Fellowships

Direct Industry Support

Contract Research

Service contracts

SME / FDI company Support

Consultancy

Specialist Training

European Union

Horizon 2020

EIT Knowledge & Innovation Communities

Partnering with Leading Institutions

Leveraging EU Funding

Networking Opportunities

IDA

Securing FDI

Promoting Irish Research Excellence

Showcase the ‘Best in Class’ Technologies

International Company Engagement

Technology Centre

Higher Education Authority

Delivery of Infrastructure Access

Enabling Fundamental Research Base

Foundations for delivery of core research programme

Industry Fellowships Industry Strategic Partnerships

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The idea for this is

to have a mind-map

of the key values of

the organisation

New values — New Approach


Proactive

Flexible

Resourceful

User Friendly

Listen

Professional

Delivery

Problem Solving

Business Friendly

Partnership

Ambitious

Solutions Orientated

22 Industry Engagement Structure


Industry Researchers in residence

Collaboration – meetings, joint visits,

technology transfer

In-kind Contribution

Cash Funding

23 Trinity IP Principles

Open Innovation – we want the IP to be used.

Not profit motivated – knowledge transfer for

socio-economic return.

Flexible – Trinity is open to a range of

models for ownership of IP

User-friendly – Systems in place to

support and encourage engagement

Practical – we want to do fair deals quickly


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25 Industry Partnership


Global Innovative Companies

TCD collaborates with

14 of the top 20

Medical Device Companies


8 of the top 10

ICT exporters in Ireland


8 of the top 10

Trinity entered into

100 research agreements

with industry in 2012

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Ideas, to innovation, to jobs.

290 INVENTIONS

70 LICENCES TO

INDUSTRY

38 CAMPUS COMPANIES

TRINITY’S DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE (2008 – 2013)

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Spin-outs 1985 – 90 ERA-Maptec Ltd.

Building Technology Applications Ltd.

Authentik Language Learning Resources Ltd

Broadcom Eireann Research Ltd

Numed Research and Devolopment Ltd

Navan Resources Ltd

Nutriscan Ltd Irish Centre

For European Law Ltd

SIA Group Majih Ltd

(re-registered with CRO on 2/4/1997

as Insight Statistical Consulting)

Spin-outs 1990 – 95 Scientific Resources Ltd.

Tolsys Ltd

Unimed Operations Ltd

Atrium Productions Ltd

Eigse Ltd

Iona Technologies Ltd.

X Communications Ltd.

Unimed Public Limited Company

Magnetic Solutions Ltd.

Trinity Spin-Out Companies


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Spin-outs 1995 – 00 The Institute of European Food Studies Ltd

Medisolve Ltd ITS-Ireland

(Industrial Training & Services)

Identigen Ltd.

Simtherg Genable Technologies Ltd.

Telekinesys Research Ltd. (Trading as Havoc)

Eneclann Ltd

Wilde Technologies Ltd.

NEOS Interactive Trino Therapeutics

Spin-outs 2000 – 05 Allegro/Deerac Eblana Photonics Ltd.

Haptica Ltd.

Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN)

Integrate Ireland Language and Training Ltd

Nanotrin Ltd. MV Technology Ltd S3 Group

(Silicon & Software Systems)

Opsona Therapeutics Ltd. Cellix Ltd.

Spin-outs 2005 – 10 Creme Software Ltd.

Sonitus Systems Ltd (Trading as Creme

Global)

New Game Technologies Ltd.

(trading as Kore then Swrve)

Parlanca Ltd.

(IP holiding company for Identigen)

EmpowerTheUser Ltd.

Treocht Ltd. Opsona Research Ltd.

Anamates Ltd.

SureWash Ltd Gofer Ict Ltd.

Solvotrin Therapeutics Ltd.

Miravex Ltd. Codex Discovery Ltd.

Biocroí Ltd. Codex Oncology Ltd.

Recitell Ltd

Spin-outs 2010 – 14 TrinityHaus Futures Ltd.

Trinity Clinical Apps Ltd.

Sity Analytics Ltd.

Synergy Flow Ltd.

Adama Innovations Tolerant Networks

Solvotrin Innovations Ltd.

Xcelerit Computing Ltd.

Glanta Ltd.

Neuropath Therapeutics Ltd

Sahru Ltd Share Navigator Ltd.

PixelPuffin Ltd.

Trimod Therapeutics Ltd

Ussher Executive Education Ltd

PBOC Ltd

Emizar Customer Solutions

AERIAQ Filtration Ltd

Trinity Stamina

Jiva Discovery Ltd

BioCroi Ltd

Silvercloud Health

Bioracle Ireland Ltd

Software Radio Systems Ltd

Personalotels (formely Hotels 77)

Cipher Apps Ltd

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These 8 Trinity spin-outs / licensees have attracted

a combined total of more than €57.8 million

in venture capital investment in the last 2 years

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Industry Academic

Collaborations


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Problem Statement:

250 million customer care articles online.

Unfindable. Multiple duplicates. Difficult to use

and repurpose.

CNGL researchers classified manuals into

product families.

Identified duplicate content/articles.

Visualised product categories.

Created a user-friendly portal for navigation

and search of customer care manuals to

identify best content quickly!

Symantec

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Problem Statement:

Offensive content being posted on company

forums and other social media sites. Manual

checking of content is very expensive!

CNGL researchers built solution to automate

the detection process.

Operates across multiple regions and varying

levels of ‘offensiveness’.

Microsoft

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Campus Companies


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Campus Company (2005):

Specializes in predictive intake modelling

software, services and data

Predict the health implications of consumer intakes from all food and product types, and all pathways simultaneously i.e. aggregate exposure. This includes ingestion, inhalation and dermal absorption routes

25 Staff based in TTEC, Trinity

Founded by Cronan McNamara

(CEO) & Audrey Crosbie (Director)

Customers across EU, US & Asia

> 90% revenue from exports

Trinity Innovation Award 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 winner for last 3 years

Creme Global

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Havok is the world leader in the development

and sale of real time physics and animation

software to the games industry.

Set up by Trinity researchers Dr Steven Collins and Mr Hugh Reynolds from the School of Computer Science & Statistics Havok is working with leading customers in the commercial games and entertainment industry. Havok technologies are being used in over 500 of the best known and award-winning titles including Halo 4, Assassin’s Creed® III, The Elder Scrolls® V: Skyrim™, Guild Wars 2, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II, Skylanders Giants™ and Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour. Havok was sold to Intel for €110m (€76m) in 2007

Havok

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EmpowerTheUser specialises in

technologies for immersive learning and

developmental skills, enabling training

providers to build and deliver high impact

online learning for a fraction of traditional

costs..

ETU was founded by Prof Vincent Wade, Prof Michael Gill, Dr Brian Fitzmaurice and Dr Declan Dagger and has a steep heritage in leading research on training, development and intelligent systems

ETU provides award-winning software tools for Simulated RolePlay Training and Assessment online, cutting delivery costs by more than 67%

EmpowerTheUser (ETU)

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PixelPuffin Limited is a software company

developing tools for the media post-

production, which and aims at quickly

bringing research based technology to the

post-production industry.

Set up by Prof Anil Kokaran & Francois

Pitié, PixelPuffin’s management team have strong technical background, track record of publications in academia, and first hand experience of working with post-production artists.

It currently offers ‘ MatteBox’, a matting plug-in Suite for Nuke, and also provides software consulting for porting plug-ins to different media post-production platforms.

PixelPuffin

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SureWash makes hand hygiene training

and compliance much less labour intensive

by combining an e-learning system with

patented video measurement technology.

Developed by Dr. Gerard Lacey over 8 years in Trinity College Dublin, SureWash was trialled in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and by the UK Dept of Health in the Mid Essex NHS Trust, UK. Hand hygiene rates per patient day increased by 156% and compliance with technique increased 703%.

SureWash (Glanta)

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Swrve is dedicated to one thing only:

building lasting, personalized relationships

with your mobile app consumers.

Started by Steve Collins and Hugh

Reynolds, originally of Havok, their

entrepreneurial vision push Swrve to

greater and greater heights.

Swrve provides a single, integrated platform for managing customer relationships with mobile apps. That includes in-app messaging campaigns, push notifications, real-time UX testing and personalization and more.

Swrve

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Tolerant Networks supplies delay-tolerant

networking (DTN) router kits to

researchers, and provides DTN training

and open-source software support to the

networking and space communities who

are interested in working with DTN.

Tolerant Networks was founded in April

2010 by Stephen Farrell and Kerry

Hartnett.

Dr. Stephen Farrell is a research fellow

in the Distributed Systems Group of the School of Computer Science and

Statistics at Trinity College Dublin.

Tolerant Networks

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Campus Company (2010): xcelerit Ltd offers consultancy and solutions in the area of high-performance computing and software development.

The company takes customers through all the necessary steps to ensure their software applications run more efficiently; taking full advantage of their CPU hardware resources. The Xcelerit platform is a solution that integrates with in-house software and allows users to focus on their algorithm and the problem at hand while it generates highly-efficient code for multi-core CPUs or GPUs.

Xcelerit Ltd

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License Agreements


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License Agreement

3 year research project undertaken jointly

by the National Digital Research Centre,

Trinity College Dublin and Parents Plus.

Prior to this, the project underwent seven

years of direct academic research at

Trinity College Dublin.

Licensed to SilverCloud Health to provide

proven online therapeutic solutions via

tailored clinical programmes that sit on a

flexible platform built using the latest in

technology advances.

SilverCloud Health

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44 Innovation Section

Trinity Introduction

Office of Corporate Partnership and Knowledge Exchange

Track Record – Industry Engagement, Licensing, Spin-outs

Modes of Engagement

Conclusions


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Launchbox

Launchbox is Trinity's student

incubator, a three month accelerator

programme open to teams of Trinity

students with early-stage business

ideas and investor-ready ventures.

The Launchbox programme provides

student startup companies with

funding to help start or expand the

business, an office space, mentorship

from some of Trinity’s most successful

entrepreneurs and access to an active

network of Trinity’s alumni and tailored

business master classes.

www.launchbox.ie

http://www.launchbox.ie/

http://www.launchbox.ie/

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TCD is Irelands innovation leader – creating companies and licensing technology.

TCD knows how to work with industry – and deliver impact.

TCD is committing to connecting with and enabling global industry.

Conclusion – Open for Business


20140923 TCD Gateway to Corporate Partnership_John Whelan

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