20091015 TSSG Overview
by Mícheál Ó Foghlú
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This slide set is designed to give a brief overview of the TSSG (Telecommunications Software & Systems Group) for the IdeaGen event on 15th October 2009. The aim of the event is to link researchers ...
This slide set is designed to give a brief overview of the TSSG (Telecommunications Software & Systems Group) for the IdeaGen event on 15th October 2009. The aim of the event is to link researchers and entrepreneurs in the filed of Telecommunications & Internet to help support regional innovation. The TSSG has a 13 year track record as a regional catalyst for software innovation.
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The answer, in this context of interaction with industry, is that we can use Enterprise Ireland funding to enable interactions with Irish owned companies who can outsource R&D to us, where it is mutually interesting to do so. So typically that starts with scoping discussions, and informing them of the opportunities, and can lead to a proposal being submitted to Enterprise Ireland. More recently the initial conversation can be seeded by the new EI Innovation Voucher scheme, small scale funding that usually produces a short scoping report.
Of course, if companies are prepared to pay directly for our services, response times can be faster, and we can negotiate consultancy agreements as with any consulting agency, with deliverables to the customer's satisfaction. In our experience Irish SMEs are not usually prepared to do this. We have been able to do this with a very select few SMEs, and with some larger multi-nationals, but overall this only represents around 1% of our total income (i.e. of €60 Million). 3 years ago