This module is designed to explore the concept of co- working and creative clustering. The module is packed with case studies to keep the audience intrigued it makes the learning process exciting and interesting.
1. This programme has been funded with
support from the European Commission
Module 6
Co Working &
Creative Clustering
2. Co working can be a ‘smart’ way to work for creative
entrepreneurs
• What does this mean for you?
• Exploring the advantages of co working.
• Learning from Creative Hubs - models of best practice from
Ireland, UK, Poland & Sweden
• Creative clustering
• Case Studies - Creative cluster’s Global/Local
• Makerspaces/Hackerspaces/ Future Trends - opportunities for
you
Learning Focus:
3. Spotlight on the UK.
• In the UK in 2014, Creative Industries was the highest
growth sector, it accounted for 1.8 million jobs - an
increase of nearly 16% since 2011 (Creative Industries:
Focus on Employment June 2015).
• Self-employment is where the growth is - 43% of the
current creative industries workforce is self-employed.
• 78% of its businesses have fewer than five employees – so
not small or medium-sized, but micro.
This module is
packed with case
studies,
Co Working
4. Co+Working
“Co” means “with,
together”.
It takes its roots from
the Latin “cum”.
So, Co-working really means
working together, sharing the
space, the ideas, the
atmosphere – usually it is
better if it is positive and green
at it’s utmost!
Image by GRAPHIC DESIGNER /
ILLUSTRATOR /PHOTOGRAPHER
Nooneboy, Sligo
www.nooneboy.com
5. Co Working spaces can be…
Membership based workspaces
where diverse groups of freelancers,
remote workers, and other
independent professionals including
creatives working together in a
shared communal setting.
Today there is an increased
availability of co-working spaces in
many different guises. In this
module, you will learn about
different formats and apply that
learning to your own circumstances.
6. Co+Working Keywords
• Collaboration
• Community
• Openness
• Accessibility
• Sustainability
What does this
mean for you?
What does this mean for you?
• Achieve more than you would by yourself
• Manageable cost, shared resources
• Sharing energy, ideas and space
• Work, your way
• Available to anyone who needs it
7. Co+Working Keywords
• Creatives engaged in co working are
typically on the same journey- trying
to make it as solopreneurs, creatives,
slash careerists, freelancers and so…
• The values which the co working
initiatives aspire to are
community, collaboration, learning&
sustainability.
• Co working space members often feel
particularlyinspired that they are not
just going to work but are part of a
wider social movement
8. Motivations
For many creatives that ‘go to
work’ involves going to the
kitchen table, a spare room (the
‘box’ room) or the garden shed.
The luxury of space and workflow
is not enjoyed.
Clearing away one’s work to go
back to family life is a constant
challenge for many. The
distraction of the washing
machine and household chores
can imped creative process!
9. So what’s the difference for
people using co working spaces?
A recent report in Harvard Business Review
found that people thrive in co-working
spaces.
• People using co working spaces are seeing
their work as meaningful in the fact that
they can bring their whole selves to work.
• It can be really daunting to make the
decision to leave a paid job, reliable
income to set up your own creative
business from home. Co working can help
as it offers cheaper start up and help and
encouragement through interaction with
other like minded people.
10. • Co working spaces bring together people working on a range of
different projects/ contracts therefore there is little direct
competition
• Affordable workspace, high speed broadband, access to facilities &
equipment
• Your are not on your own starting out. Doing different kinds of work
to others around you can make your identify stronger- here often
leading to the right connections and referrals.
11. SEEING YOUR WORK
THROUGH FRESH EYES
Co workers can provide unique skills
set to each other - helping each other out.
13. EVIDENCE
• Bill
• Drinking water
• Quack
• Wading through a
swamp
• Eating bread
• Long ears
• Cooling off his ears
• Bunny sound-sniffing
• Hopping, hiding in
the grass
• Eating Carrot
14. Isolation and feeling disconnected is a challenge that many of today’s
creative professionals feel. They are constantly searching for new ways
to connect and work. Further research quantifies the benefits of co-
working:-
When people work in a Co-working space:
• 86% felt less isolated
• 80% of their businesses expanded
• 71% felt that their productivity increased
• 75% expect their income to rise
• 66% expect their work volume to increase.
Source: Deskmag Global Coworking Surveys 2012 and 2014
15. Positives of co working
FLEXABILITY
Co working spaces are normally
accessible 24/7. There are
typically ‘stepped’ commitment
options available depending
on your requirements
• Hot desk
• A shared studio for
interaction with others
• Own door studio/workspace
16. EXAMPLE-
The Building Block, Ireland
www.thebuildingblock.ie
Marketing Message - MOVE IN, MOVE UP
From hot-desks and dedicated desks to
private office suites, these state of the art
productive spaces raise the bar for start-ups
and can’t-stops alike. Move in and move up.
Sample licence for a hot-desk -
http://thebuildingblock.ie/downloads/TBBS
ampleLicenceForDedicatedDesk.pdf
17. Structure and Culture
• Co workers report that having a community space to work in helped
to create a structure on their working day and this discipline is
motivational.
• The more human centred the approach of the co working space is
the better it thrives. If there are staff employed to manage the
facility, they should know their members by name and profession
and provide signposting to clients and customers visiting the space.
18. • Co workers are free to choose who and how they interact with
others in the space- often the best networking can happen over a
cup of coffee at the communal café/kitchen – interaction is organic
and not forced.
• Freelancers/ creatives can use co working facilities whenever
necessary- the meeting room/conference rooms/ studios/hubs /
equipment /high speed broad band, usually offered at affordable
rates.
The best way to have
a good idea is to
Have a lot of ideas
"
Dr. Linus Pauling
"
19. Utilising the facilities is one thing but also it provides you with the
opportunity to network effectively with another creative entrepreneurs.
Co working spaces provide a culture where helping each other out is
normal and the space itself is a creative one conducive to developing
concepts and ideas. For example a brainstorming session about another
aspect of your product design or to prepare a joint tender for a
commission.
20. Social Advantages of
Co working
• Expand your personal and
professional networks
• Find people to work with
• Hire and be hired
• Be more creative
• Work in professional environment
(get out of your home and your
pyjamas )
• Work by yourself, but not alone
• Eliminate isolation
21. Sustainable Advantages of Co working
• Work/life balance
• Flexibility
• Reduce your commute
• Cost efficient
• No utility bills
• Not tied to a lease
• No dealing with service
providers and repairs
• Get a professional working
routine
• Space expands with your
business
22. Productive Advantages
of Co working
• Grow your business faster
• Find new clients
• Innovation is sparked
• by chance encounters
• No distractions from family
members
• Improved focus
• No (or maybe less) temptations
from the fridge and TV
• Be more motivated to work
• Work with focussed professionals
like you
• Complement your work from home
23. tips for authentic networking in a co working5
1. Be yourself, Start a conversation – first chat over a cup of tea.
Then, find opportunities to connect with other people in your co
working space.
2. Offer your skill/service for another – swap skills. This is a good
way for people to hear what you have to offer/ your skills.
Example
– you may be a graphic designer/ a photographer – another
people in the space is in PR- offer to reinvent their business card.
They can connect you to their client base if they trust your work.
24. tips for authentic networking in a co working5
3. Share knowledge- this kind of openness
can help a co-worker & can lead to future
collaborative work or development of new
initiatives.
4. Create useful promotional materials- your
brand is yourself make it visual and visible
so that co workers can seek you out easily.
5. Display your passion -Allow others to
explore your studio/ workspace where
they can see your storyboards, examples
of you work & your interests. This will
open up to curiosity & help build
relationships with co-workers.
25. Co+Working Ireland
Starting your own Co-working Space, or
maybe you already run one?
The Irish Coworking Assembly promotes
Coworking in Ireland. If you are running a
Coworking Space, or are interested in
starting your own space, get in touch visit
www.coworking.ie to find out more !
26. • Would help your career?
• Note down your 5 most
essential needs from co
working?
• What skills can you offer
others in a co working
capacity?
• Do you think that co working
is an option for you?
EXERCISE
Think about working in a
co working space:
27. Spotlight on the UK.
• In the UK in 2014, Creative Industries was the highest
growth sector, it accounted for 1.8 million jobs - an
increase of nearly 16% since 2011 (Creative Industries:
Focus on Employment June 2015).
• Self-employment is where the growth is - 43% of the
current creative industries workforce is self-employed.
• 78% of its businesses have fewer than five employees – so
not small or medium-sized, but micro.
Learning from Creative Hubs
–models of best practice from Ireland,
UK, Poland & Sweden
Creative hubs bring together creative people. They may
differ in size and focus, but ultimately ‘a hub is a hub’
when it unites, inspires and promotes a community.
28. What makes a good hub?
According to Clare Reddington via the
British Council
http://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org
/guide/what-makes-good-hub/)
A creative hub is not just a building. It’s
the people and the activity that use the
building. It’s a living process and that
means what it is and what it does needs
to be kept under constant review; what
are we doing, and how, and why?
29. The Creative HubKit, produced by the British Council, is a free toolkit for
people looking to set up a hub. It is made up of best practice examples,
helpful experiences and tried and tested approaches from some of the most
successful hubs in the UK and Europe.
DOWNLOAD THE TOOLKIT
http://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/
media/uploads/files/Creative_HubKit.pdf
30. Centre for Creativity & Innovation for the North East, Ireland
Creative Spark was established in 2012 to promote innovative and
creative businesses, including new and established enterprises in Louth
and the wider north-east region. Creative Spark provides a dedicated
training, learning lab and affordable workspace facility in Dundalk, Co.
Louth. They welcome and support new and established businesses
operating within the creative industries, innovation, technology, and
sustainable energy sectors.
They offer an environment where innovation and creativity can
flourish. Networking, peer-to -peer exchange and connectivity are a
daily reality for the business community working, learning and meeting
in the centre.
31. Manager of Creative Spark, Sarah Daly shares her 5 essential
things you think every Creative Hub should have
1. A dedicated manager and champion
2. Great coffee and a nice space to drink it and allow for informal
network within the community (tenants and users/visitors)
3. Informal meeting spaces and flexible working/meeting/ training
spaces
4. Strong online presence (website & social media) and the resources to
maintain it
5. A good network of businesses and organisations both based in the
centre and as potential users/visitors e.g. we have specific events such
as ‘Lunch and Learn’ and social outings to build rapport
33. Sarah Daly shares the Creative Spark project
At the Creative Communities Igniting Change Multiplier Event,
Roscommon, Ireland, June 2016
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=T2Itw-SiN_0
34. Dungannon Enterprise Centre
embraces the term "thinking outside
the box" with the "Business Cube"
office space for start up creative
businesses. The innovative "Business
Cube" offers funky and comfortable
work space units housed within
colourful containers.
The Cube comprises of 13 hi-spec
containers in Google colours signifying
the digital age in which most small
businesses are operating.
36. Brian McAuley shares The Cube story
At the Creative Communities Igniting Change Multiplier Event,
Roscommon, Ireland, June 2016
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=DCa-I__jJRg
37. EC-1 Lodz, Poland
EC -1 is a space for cultural, educational
and scientific events. The project has
revitalisation at it’s core at involves the
adaptation of the historic EC1 power plant
into an affordable workspace for creative
entrepreneurs in Lodz, Poland.
This mixture of history and modernity
attracts the attention of those visitors who
value the place not only for the look of site
but also its outlook and atmosphere.
39. One of the unique features of the hub is thev EC1 : Cinematographic
Arts Centre which acts as a cultural, artistic and social stimulator:-
• Theatre of sound and post-production
• Studios and creativity workshops
• Seminar and conference halls
• Planetarium and 3D cinema
• Art galleries and art cells
• Library and reading room with the “lake of memory”
• Viewing platform
• Jazz club, dance club
For more info and to find out what projects are happening visit
www.ec1lodz.pl
40. Spotlight on the UK.
• In the UK in 2014, Creative Industries was the highest
growth sector, it accounted for 1.8 million jobs - an
increase of nearly 16% since 2011 (Creative Industries:
Focus on Employment June 2015).
• Self-employment is where the growth is - 43% of the
current creative industries workforce is self-employed.
• 78% of its businesses have fewer than five employees – so
not small or medium-sized, but micro.
Creative Clustering
41. ‘Clusters’ describe a group of related or mutually dependent businesses
and resources that are grouped together in a defined area or in a virtual
environment that is dependent on good internet connectivity. The
notion of creative clusters is very fluid- on purpose! Creative clusters
can be places to work (and also on occasion to live), places where
cultural products are consumed as well as made.
They feed on diversity and change and so thrive in multi-cultural
settings that have their own local distinctiveness but are also connected
to the world. They are uniquely diverse in structure, sector and services,
and range from collective and co-operative, to labs and incubators; and
can be static, mobile or online. More importantly, they are drivers with
the potential to revive the economy.
42. Creative Clusters - why they work?
A distinctive feature of creative
enterprises is that they thrive best in each
others’ company, in places that have both
a strong local identity, and are also open
to the world. In the creative economy,
place matters.
At every level, from a co-working space in
a small town to global centres like
Hollywood, creative enterprises gather
together in visible hot-spots which, when
fully established, become self-sustaining
clusters of creative activity.
43. New value is created when:
technical innovation, artistic creativity and business entrepreneurship are
deployed together to make and distribute a new cultural product.
44. CASE STUDY - madeinmidtown.org
“Made in Midtown” project www.madeinmidtown.org illustrates that
the real engine in New York’s Garment District is far beyond flagship
stores and runways. It’s creative cluster includes a sophisticated
production chain that requires many highly skilled specialists including
pattern making, sourcing, cutting, sewing, showing, marking, grading
and manufacturing.
The Made in Midtown cluster is realised through “an interdependent
network” made up of various specialists, accessible storage space, active
entrepreneurs, immigrant labour and multicultural designers. Because of
this, new comers are able to join the “local” quickly “making New York
the fashion start-up capital”.
47. CASE STUDY - Blick Shared Studios
• Blick began with a group of creative entrepreneurs, the majority of
whom had returned to Northern Ireland from working or studying
abroad to start their creative industry business.
• The group actually met on a University of Ulster and NESTA course
for creative entrepreneurs. All were struggling to get their
businesses off the ground working from home.
• Working on their business ideas in a shared creative environment
with the support and inspiration from like-minded start-ups led the
the creatives to realise how important having the right work
environment was.
Northern Ireland
48. CASE STUDY - Blick Shared Studios
• They came together as a group to seek suitable space in Belfast but
struggled to find anywhere suitable. They then decided to set up
their own space. They approached Unltd (a social enterprise fund
https://unltd.org.uk/ )for £5000 funding and rented a warehouse in
Belfast City Centre.
• During this period they were approached by the University of Ulster
and Belfast City Council who liked what they were doing and wanted
to help grow the project.
• They were supported with project funding to help with the
establishment & administration costs and with this support Blick
moved into its Malone premises in 2008.
Northern Ireland
50. CASE STUDY - 2 Eighty81
Eighty81 is a shared creative workspace in
Ebrington Square, Derry/Londonderry,
Northern Ireland. It has created a
supportive and inspiring work environment
where creatives can meet and work
alongside other like minded creatives and
collaborate, learn, grow and develop their
businesses. Eighty81 run specific support
programmes for start up creative
businesses with innovative business ideas
51. CASE STUDY - 2 Eighty81
Eighty81 NEST programme is a 9 month incubation programme, with
the possibility of an extension, for 6 start up creative businesses with
innovative business ideas.
Participating creative start ups will get affordable workspace on a
tiered payment system within Eighty81’s shared creative workspace.
They will also receive ongoing business support to help their
businesses grow and develop throughout the 9 month programme.
Bespoke business support will include:
• Monthly one on one business planning and development sessions
• Ongoing mentoring support with creative industry professionals
• Quarterly business growth workshops
53. CASE STUDY - Fumbally Exchange
This Irish collaborative cluster offers
low-cost, low-risk business incubation
space for design focused creative
professionals who may be start ups,
sole traders or small business.
Fumbally Exchange members can use
the events and exhibition spaces in
Fumbally Exchange (FEx) locations to
run exhibitions, workshops, talks,
receptions, pop-up shops or any other
sort of event they might imagine.
54. CASE STUDY - Fumbally Exchange
Established in The Liberties Dublin, entrepreneurs, creative professionals
and start-ups can rent a fully-serviced desk in shared office space at
Fumbally Exchange. Members in the Dublin office include professionals
in Architecture ; Energy; Graphic Design; Planning and Urban Design;
Digital Media; Engineering; Interior Design; Photography and Video;
Marketing and Business Consulting.
www.fumballyexchange.com
55. CASE STUDY - Fumbally Exchange
To celebrate its 5th Birthday,
Fumbally co workers held a
two week event and
exhibition on the theme of
‘Transformation’ collating an
intriguing collection of
artworks from the members
of the Fumbally Exchange as a
celebration of creativity and
transformation.
56. CASE STUDY - Pervasive Media Studio
The Pervasive Media Studio in the UK hosts a vibrant community of over
100 artists, creative companies, technologists and academics exploring
experience design and creative technology. It is a collaboration between
Watershed, University of Bristol and University of West of England.
Their projects can be cultural or commercial and span play, robotics,
location-based media, food, connected objects, interactive documentary
and new forms of performance. They test projects as early as possible
and iterate.
Check out their brilliant website.
57. "The coming together of academic, the arts and tech
people is really producing some pretty special projects.
Each Friday they hold an Open Studio. They have a lunchtime speaker,
plus the opportunity to meet the teams and learn about their projects."
James Parton, Director of Twilio, Europe
CASE STUDY - Pervasive Media Studio
www.watershed.co.uk/studio/
58. TEN - TEN - The Employable Nation, is a 25
day training course which intersects
traditional skills, emotional intelligence
and work creation in one course. It is an
outreach from the community makerspace
at Workspace in Hout Bay, Cape Town and
is designed to stimulate young people’s
interest in the art of making.
WATCH this video to find out about this
new and innovative programme :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyq
wv5d0t-4
CASE STUDY - Workspace, Hout Bay
Cape Town
59. WATCH this video to find out about this new and innovative programme :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyqwv5d0t-4
CASE STUDY - Workspace, Hout Bay
Cape Town
60. Hackerspaces - Makerspaces
A hackerspace or makerspace are community
operated workspaces where people with
common interests, often in software, machining,
engineering, technology, education, science, art,
electronics, fabrication or craft can socialise and
collaborate. These shared spaces give members a
place to be creative and work on their projects in
an environment that is inspiring and supportive of
both new and old technologies.
MakerSpaces are quickly becoming a global
phenomenon that is representing the
democratisation of design, engineering,
fabrication and education through social
communities of creative people working together.
61. Check out
The first Irish
hackerspaces/
makerspaces
were established
about 5 years
ago and since
then a number
of hacker and
maker spaces
have set up in
Ireland and
Northern Ireland
and include:-
• Fab Lab Leitrim
www.fablabs.io/fablabmanorhamilton
• TOG Dublin Hackerspace (Dublin)-
http://www.tog.ie
• Lightbox Lab, North East Maker Space
• (Louth & Meath) – www.lightboxlab.ie
• South East Maker Space (Waterford) –
https://wiki.southeastmakerspace.org/doku.php
• Nexus Hackerspace Cork
www.hackerspacecork.com
• 091 Labs Galway www.091labs.com
• Farset Labs Belfast www.farsetlabs.org.uk
• IDEA CENTRE, Omagh
http://www.swc.ac.uk/innovate/idea/Makerspace
62. CASE STUDY - IDEA CENTRE Makerspace
The MakerSpace concept creates
a social community of people
that can share their skills and
knowledge to design, create and
manufacture products.
The Idea Centre provides the
physical resources, with high-end
design and manufacturing
equipment, and the social
community will provide the
knowledge and expertise to
bring projects to life.
Omagh, Northern Ireland
63. CASE STUDY - IDEA CENTRE Makerspace
Omagh, Northern Ireland
www.swc.ac.uk/innovate/idea
64. CASE STUDY - IDEA CENTRE Makerspace
Notable products created through this very concept are:
WATCH :Pebble Watch a smart watch technology
https://youtu.be/g6hUPbPH_xc?list=UU-WfB47Zgx2Q9LvS5us0Cwg
Omagh, Northern Ireland
65. What is a Fablab?
FabLab - digital fabrication laboratories - were set up to inspire people &
entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into new products & prototypes by giving
them access to a range of advanced digital manufacturing technology.
Professor Neil
Gershenfeld
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT).
The idea was conceived by renowned inventor
and scientist Professor Neil Gershenfeld at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His
idea was: to provide the environment, skills,
advanced materials and technology to make
things cheaply and quickly anywhere in the
world, and to make this available on a local basis
to entrepreneurs, students, artists, small
businesses and in fact, anyone who wants to
create something new or bespoke.
66. What is a Fablab?
Click on this video to learn about Fab Lab Belfast
http://www.fablabni.com/
67. What’s a Falab Network
A global network of over 150 Fab Labs now exists, connecting people,
communities and businesses across the world and enabling them to
collaborate, problem solve and brainstorm ideas
http://www.fablabni.com/what-fablab
68. Shepherds in Norway have
used their FabLab to create a
system for tracking sheep
using their mobile phones
CASE STUDY
69. FABLAB Manorhamilton was started in
late 2014 by a collective of Designers,
Engineers and Makers.
It operates a digital fabrication facility
providing enterprises, creatives,
schools and hobbyists access to a wide
range of fabrication technologies that
allow them to turn their ideas into
new prototypes and products.
Follow what’s happening here:
https://www.facebook.com/fablabmh
CASE STUDY - FabLab
71. CASE STUDY - FabLab
The Fab Lab Manorhamilton is a service
for the whole of the North West of
Ireland and this area is renowned for
innovation in both the Arts and Industry
and boasts some of Irelands leading design,
manufacturing and artistic organisations
and individuals.
Users have an unprecedented opportunity
to access state of the art digital tools within
a community setting and the addition of the
Fab Lab to the area will provide a source of
innovation, empowerment, education and
new business development.
72. CASE STUDY - FabLab
FAB LAB FACILITIES FOR Artists & Makers
FABLAB Manorhamilton provides Artists and Makers in the North West
with a truly unique facility and environment to add digital fabrication
into their toolset and experiment with these new technologies to further
their work.
The people who run Makerspaces or Fablabs take a keen interest in new
things taking space and this is why events like the Festival of Curiosity
are leading the way……
73. CASE STUDY - FabLab
North West based Artist Kate Oram incorporated 3D Printing processes
in her latest Sculpture pieces
WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRFQfNiaRRQ
74. Image is an exciting new creative technologies studio based at South
West College Enniskillen campus. It is a design and development area
focused on providing resources and services in the area of digital
animation. The Hub offers resources to support the curriculum and also
industry professionals in the following core areas :
• 3 D Animation
• Digital Compositing
• App Development
• Motion Capture
• Video game development
• Interactive marketing
• Promo creation
CASE STUDY - Co-labs Image Centre
Enniskillen Co. Fermanagh
http://www.swc.ac.uk/innovate/image/About-us
75. The studios are kitted out with 27”
iMacs
• Macbook Pros / ipads / iPhones
• AlienWare Pcs
• Motion Capture Suite
• Pre-incubation
• Sound recording
The studio hosts a variety of leading
edge lectures open to professionals and
students and events making use of a
modern • 110” Video Wall• Motion
Capture Suite• and Pre-incubation for
those wishing to develop ideas
CASE STUDY - Co-labs Image Centre
Enniskillen Co. Fermanagh
76. The function of the Idea Centre is an interactive learning
and exhibition space in which students, other post-primary
school children, entrepreneurs and companies from a
variety of industries will attend to encourage them to
participate in a creative process of generating ideas and
rapidly creating prototypes to establish proof of concept.
The Idea Centre aims to widen and deepen this creativity
process, involve the wider community and not only design
products, but find solutions to problems which will then
lead to wealth creation. Other colleges who have
successfully implemented similar models include leading
US entrepreneurial colleges Babson, Stanford and MIT.
CASE STUDY - Co-labs @ Idea Centre
Co. Tyrone
77. The Idea Centre's collaborative approach involves open thinking ideas
generation and the creation of learning experiences through a carefully
managed design process. Students work on real-world problems
provided by local industry, entrepreneurs, community groups, sports
clubs and charities. With this facility and the underpinning methodology,
the promoters seek to incubate a mind-set of creativity, of problem
solving and of innovation. They aim to foster a community contributing to
continuous innovation that will improve the wealth of the local economy
and compete on a global scale.
CASE STUDY - Co-labs @ Idea Centre
Co. Tyrone
78. The Idea Centre Proto-typing Lab has the following facilities available to use:
• 3D Printers
• Object 30 Pro – Polyjet Technology
• Matrix 300+ - Based on Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM)
• MakerBot Replicator 2 – Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM)
• Spectrum Z510 – Full Colour Powder Printing (PP)
• LaserPro X500II – Laser Cutting machine that cuts a range of materials
including: paper, card, light plywood, plastic, fabric etc.
• Roland MDX-540 Milling machine
• Vacuum Former
• Z700 3D laser scanner
• Thermal Imaging camera
CASE STUDY - Co-labs @ Idea Centre
Co. Tyrone
79. Based on the Letterkenny IT campus, CoLab is home
to 28 entrepreneurs, networking is a natural
occurrence. It’s not all work though, the centre hosts
various cultural occasions from time to time too.
Already 100 entrepreneurs have started their journey
in CoLab, many returning from overseas, who have
now gone on to create successful businesses.
CoLab is promoted as a dynamic point of
convergence where quality-of-life meets cutting-edge
technology, where Ireland’s Northwest meets the
global marketplace.
CASE STUDY - Co-labs @ Letterkenny IT
Co. Donegal
80. CASE STUDY - Co-labs @ Letterkenny IT
Co. Donegal
www.co-lab.ie
81. Lone Star State Ltd is a Publisher of Transmedia
Content, specializing in creating original content for
Multi-Platform Graphic Novels. The Business
Produces & Publishes original Graphic Novels in
Print & Digital format, Animated Series, and Smart
Phone Apps for viewing across all Digital Platforms
for delivery across the entire Digital Media Space.
The Company has completed its first wave of
products, that being Original Digital Graphic Novels.
Distributed digitally, they are available as a Digital
eBook on all Devices. Upon release, the two Graphic
Novels achieved a ranking in the Top 30 Sci-Fi
Graphic Novels Category on Amazon.
CASE STUDY – Lone Star Ltd.
Company based at Co-Lab , Letterkenny IT
83. The Festival of Curiosity, Dublin is an annual
international festival of science, art, design
& technology. Launched in 2013, it attracts
over 45,000 people from across the globe
every year and involves 14 venues & spaces
across the city centre which come to life in
an energetic fusion of interactive
installations, pop-up playgrounds & curiosity
carnivals to immersive experiences,
performance, visual art, theatre, film, secret
tours, night cycles & urban escapes.
Stay Curious…