EU Growth and Jobs Fund Conference - Research and Development - Kevin McCann

1. Research and Development
Invest Northern Ireland
Stakeholder Event
EUInvestment for Growth andJobsProgramme
30thJune2015

2. Programme for Government
2011-2015
support £300 million
investment by
businesses in R&D,
with at least 20%
coming from Small and
Medium sized
Enterprises

3. Invest NI Objectives
• We will drive market led innovation within our
business base, supporting research, product,
process, market and organisational development,
from the earliest stages to leading edge
technologies.
• We will increase the wider economic returns from
our support and encourage higher levels of
collaboration and increased commercial outcomes
from knowledge transfer and open innovation
activities putting innovation at the core of
enterprise in Northern Ireland.

4. Innovation Strategy for Northern
Ireland 2014-2025

5. Northern Ireland Context
The ERDF element of Northern Ireland’s Operational
Programme for the Investment for Growth and Jobs
Programme 2014 to 2020 will focus on 3 Thematic
Objectives:
1. Strengthening research, technological development and
innovation
2. Enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs
3. Supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy

6. Invest NI Activity
• €415M allocation of ERDF and match funding for the EUIGJ
Programme 2014-2020, to support projects under the
following schemes:
Priority 1: Strengthening Research, Technological
Development and Innovation
• Grant for Research and Development (to Business)
• Design Development
Priority 2: Enhancing the Competitiveness of SMEs
• Financial Instruments
• SME support
• Local Economic Development

7. BERD NI Results 2013
• Between 2008–13 BERD has increased by
162% (from £183.9m to £481.8m)
• SMERD accounted for 36% of BERD
• The 10 biggest spenders accounted for 60% of
the BERD
• R&D spend as a percentage of GVA 1.3%
compared to 1.2% for the UK

8. “Dunlop tyres, Ferguson tractors & Short Brothers planes are all
pioneering examples of a great tradition that continues today”...
David Cameron

9. 1866
William Thomson
(Lord Kelvin)
Pioneer of Modern
Physics & Director
of Atlantic
Telegraph

10. 1930
• Dr James Drumm
• Creator of the
Rechargeable battery

11. 1945
Sir James Martin
Inventor of the
Modern Day Ejector
Seat

13. … and produces 40 per cent of the
world’s mobile quarrying
equipment?
You might have thought it was
Norway. Or perhaps America or
Korea.

14. Statsports

15. Statsports
• Over 30 parameters are measured and calculated 100 times per second,
meaning almost a quarter of a million numbers every minute can be
analysed from a team of 11 football players.
• Parameters include – how far run; how fast; total distance; impact at
scrum; heart rate; acceleration etc. – all at 100 times per second
• A manager can see if a player is running more heavily on one side or
another (the dynamic stress load rises) – and that’s usually an indication
an injury is being compensated for.
Or in training, over time, optimal ranges can be set – for sprinting
speeds, heart rates, metabolic ratios etc – and then used to show if a
player is over or underworking and needs to be told either way.

16. Rugby Football

17. “Brew beer with Brewbot, the world's
smartest personal brewery”
August 2013
Invest NI Grant for R&D support £50k
(to develop prototype Brewbot)
October 2013
Kick-starter, raised £114k (381 backers)
Pre-order sales in USA, Canada, Europe,
Australia, South Africa & Taiwan
Joined Techstars Accelerator in USA
October 2014
Raised $1.5 million seed-round funding
(including Techstart NI)
Opened US Office, Austin, Texas
June 2015
Opened first Brewbot pub, Belfast, NI

18. Increasing
Knowledge
& Capability
£
££
£££
££££
Access to
New
R&D Funding
Innovation
Voucher
Design
Services
KTP &
Fusion
Grant for
R&D
Collaborative
R&D Support
Competence
Centres
INI Support for Industry R&D

19. Invest NI’s Principles of Intervention
Additionality
Mobility
Viability
Risk
Economic Efficiency
Specific Quantitative for R&D
Qualitative (Regional & wider economic
benefits)
 Displacement

20. Grant for R&D – Eligible Costs*
 Salaries
 Consultancy
 Sub-contracting
 Equipment Depreciation
 Trials & Testing
 Intellectual Property
 Other:
- Materials
- Flights & Accommodation
* all must be vouched and approved expenditure

21. “Fundamental”
Categories of R&D&I
Experimental or theoretical
work undertaken primarily to
acquire new knowledge of
underlying phenomena, without
any direct practical application
or use in prospect.
“Industrial”
“Experimental
Development”
Up to
100%
Up to
50%
Up to
25%
Planned research to acquire
new knowledge and skills to
develop new (or significantly
improve existing) products,
processes or services
(excluding prototypes).
Existing knowledge /
skills used to plan /
design new or improved
products, processes or
services

22. Aid Maxima
“Fundamental”
“Industrial”
“Experimental
Development”
Up to
100%
Up to
70%
Up to
45%
“Industrial”
+ Collaboration (15%)
“Experimental
Development”
+ Collaboration (15%)
Small (+20%) Medium (+10%) Large
Up to
100%
Up to
100%
Up to
80%
Up to
60%
Up to
60%
Up to
35%
Up to
75%
Up to
50%
Up to
50%
Up to
25%
Up to
65%
Up to
40%

23. Invest NI
Your Client
Executive/Manager
Regional Office
Business Support Team
0800 181 4422
www.investni.com

24. Research and Development
Companies who are innovative have seen
their employment and sales grow twice as
fast as their non-innovating competitors and
they are also significantly more productive.