FUNDS & EXPERTISE FOR R&D Des Foley GMIT Kevin Keane Chipright

GMIT 7,200 students 5 Schools – Science – Engineering – Hotel – Business – Humanities 5 Campuses Highly practical, professionally orientated programmes Delegated Authority (Level 9 taught and Level 10 selected areas) 2 incubation /innovation centres

RELEVANT ACTIVITIES PIPELINE OF GRADUATES Including Placement/ Internship CUSTOM PROGRAMMES e.g. Induction, Skills training, Springboard STAFF EXPERTISE Industry & Education DEDICATED FACILITIES RESEARCH CENTRES ACCESS TO FUNDING Education & Research INNOVATION in BUSNESS CENTRES

FACILITIES AND LINKAGES Incubation Space Concept Desk Space Virtual Incubation New Frontiers Research (EI Vouchers, Innovation Partnerships) Students (Undergraduates & Post graduates) SERVICES Market Research Market Validation Route to Market Sales Process IP / Patenting Financials Building the Team Mentoring Networking

RESEARCH CENTRES AND EMERGING GROUPS CiSET Energy GMEDTECH Medical Device MFRC Marine and Freshwater SOFTWARE/APPS HERITAGE

CiSET Focus: “…the integration of cost effective and reliable sustainable energy technologies ” 2. Climate - Energy Content - Variability 3. Technology - Selection / Sizing - Integration / Optimisation 1. Application - Demand / Profile - Energy Management/Storage

MFRC Research Themes: Sustainability of fisheries & their ecosystems Conservation of marine & freshwater biodiversity Environmental toxicology Innovative technologies to optimise seafood production CASE STUDY: Optimising survival of live shellfish for export to Asian markets

Case Study - Recirculating Aquaculture System

GMedTech Applied Biomedical Engineering Research – Clinically driven experimental haemodynamics research To provide the best physiological models for optimising medical devices Design and Development Support Services – Design and manufacture of patient specific compliant phantoms Small and large arteries Venous system – Simulation of physiological blood flow conditions (Fully controlled and monitored)

EQUIPMENT AND CAPABILITIES

SUMMARY Highly Applied Research Driven by Industry Need How to engage with us Innovation Voucher Innovation Partnership IRCSET Industry Partnership EU Funding Partnering Consultancy and Contract Services CONTACT RESEARCH OFFICE

CHIPRIGHT Company Background Brief overview of what we do The R&D item Experience with Innovation vouchers

Chipright Enterprise Ireland GMIT CHIPRIGHT Micro-Chip Engineering Services R&D Irish Customers European Customers

CHIPRIGHT Chipright Focus on Verifying Digital Circuits Most Cost Effective point in Development Flow Verification Services (Chipright)

CHIPRIGHT Research Question: – Research new verification process for micro-chip development Challenge for an indigenous company Kick started research via Innovation voucher Pre-cursor to our longer term view R&D Activity – Innovation partnership – Opportunity to evaluate “working relationship” with GMIT – Links to Engineering Department » Viewpoint of what is achievable when working with them » Viewpoint of their courses, strong skills to identify in graduates – Opportunity to build connections & relationships with GMIT

CHIPRIGHT How did it work out? – Identify a research partner and “agree up front on a goal” for the research – We had to “ramp-up” the researcher and inject ideas into the process Streamlined it to “narrow” what we wanted solved – Researcher worked on the process Continuous / communication Gave us a degree of control over it Report generated

CHIPRIGHT Identified a good level of software knowledge within Engineering Dept. – Software like JAVA – Can be used to develop graphical user interfaces Identified this as something to leverage after the core research was implemented Different topic entirely to what we looked at originally So used the Innovation voucher a 2 nd time