This document summarizes research funding landscape and mechanisms for commercializing research in Ireland. It discusses several key funding programs from Enterprise Ireland including Commercialisation Fund, Innovation Vouchers, and Competence Centers. It also outlines two case studies that illustrate the importance of commercial expertise for successfully commercializing technologies. The document encourages researchers to prioritize commercialization and utilize available support structures.
The document discusses trends in internet and mobile usage. It notes that global mobile 3G subscriber growth was 35% in 2011, with 936 million subscribers representing 17% of the total mobile market. Smartphone shipments surpassed feature phones in Western Europe and North America in 2010-2011 and are expected to do the same in the rest of the world soon. Mobile usage of services like Pandora, Twitter and Facebook has grown significantly between 2008-2011, demonstrating increasing mobile engagement.
The document summarizes a networking roadshow event focused on generating ideas for wind energy opportunities. Guest speakers discussed offshore wind energy trends and case studies. Attendees then brainstormed and mapped out ideas and business opportunities related to renewable energy. These included utilizing local renewable resources, reducing energy consumption, promoting smarter consumption, addressing environmental impacts, and developing the necessary infrastructure, supply chain and skills training. Business models were proposed around self-sustaining communities, community-owned renewable energy cooperatives, and developing offshore wind farm services and technology. Questions from attendees focused on issues like incentivizing schools to go green, limitations of the national grid, and balancing renewable energy development with tourism.
Ireland has great potential for wind energy development due to its wind resources. However, it currently relies heavily on energy imports and has high household electricity prices. The EU has set targets for 2020 of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption by 20% each, and increasing the renewable energy share to 20%. Developing wind energy in Ireland could help meet these targets and create over 10,000 new jobs. Barriers to steady growth of the wind energy industry need to be removed to realize these opportunities and jobs. Stakeholders must work together to increase investment, training, and develop infrastructure and new services to fully capitalize on Ireland's wind energy resources.
Building a business from your ideas 2011 threesixty
Enterprise Ireland offers several programs to support businesses with research and development (R&D) including grants for in-house R&D projects, innovation partnerships between companies and research teams, and innovation vouchers worth €5,000 for small companies to access innovative solutions from third-level institutions. Eligible costs under the R&D fund include materials, equipment, salaries, overheads, and subcontracted work.
This document discusses challenges and strategies for commercializing technology from a university. It covers four key pillars: technology, marketing, management/team, and finance. For technology, it discusses evaluating the market problem, customer pain, applications, and competitiveness. For marketing, it discusses market readiness, category, size, growth and commercialization paths. For management/team, it stresses the importance of experience and skills. For finance, it discusses defining milestones, understanding competition, and raising funds from various sources as a company progresses from idea to growth stages.
This document summarizes research funding landscape and mechanisms for commercializing research in Ireland. It discusses several key funding programs from Enterprise Ireland including Commercialisation Fund, Innovation Vouchers, and Competence Centers. It also outlines two case studies that illustrate the importance of commercial expertise for successfully commercializing technologies. The document encourages researchers to prioritize commercialization and utilize available support structures.
The document discusses trends in internet and mobile usage. It notes that global mobile 3G subscriber growth was 35% in 2011, with 936 million subscribers representing 17% of the total mobile market. Smartphone shipments surpassed feature phones in Western Europe and North America in 2010-2011 and are expected to do the same in the rest of the world soon. Mobile usage of services like Pandora, Twitter and Facebook has grown significantly between 2008-2011, demonstrating increasing mobile engagement.
The document summarizes a networking roadshow event focused on generating ideas for wind energy opportunities. Guest speakers discussed offshore wind energy trends and case studies. Attendees then brainstormed and mapped out ideas and business opportunities related to renewable energy. These included utilizing local renewable resources, reducing energy consumption, promoting smarter consumption, addressing environmental impacts, and developing the necessary infrastructure, supply chain and skills training. Business models were proposed around self-sustaining communities, community-owned renewable energy cooperatives, and developing offshore wind farm services and technology. Questions from attendees focused on issues like incentivizing schools to go green, limitations of the national grid, and balancing renewable energy development with tourism.
Ireland has great potential for wind energy development due to its wind resources. However, it currently relies heavily on energy imports and has high household electricity prices. The EU has set targets for 2020 of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption by 20% each, and increasing the renewable energy share to 20%. Developing wind energy in Ireland could help meet these targets and create over 10,000 new jobs. Barriers to steady growth of the wind energy industry need to be removed to realize these opportunities and jobs. Stakeholders must work together to increase investment, training, and develop infrastructure and new services to fully capitalize on Ireland's wind energy resources.
Building a business from your ideas 2011 threesixty
Enterprise Ireland offers several programs to support businesses with research and development (R&D) including grants for in-house R&D projects, innovation partnerships between companies and research teams, and innovation vouchers worth €5,000 for small companies to access innovative solutions from third-level institutions. Eligible costs under the R&D fund include materials, equipment, salaries, overheads, and subcontracted work.
This document discusses challenges and strategies for commercializing technology from a university. It covers four key pillars: technology, marketing, management/team, and finance. For technology, it discusses evaluating the market problem, customer pain, applications, and competitiveness. For marketing, it discusses market readiness, category, size, growth and commercialization paths. For management/team, it stresses the importance of experience and skills. For finance, it discusses defining milestones, understanding competition, and raising funds from various sources as a company progresses from idea to growth stages.
The document summarizes an event on environmental trading opportunities held at the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick on November 23rd, 2010. It includes an agenda for presentations and exercises on identifying business ideas related to carbon trading. Attendees participated in brainstorming sessions and developing value propositions for potential carbon trading concepts. The ideas were then presented to industry speakers who provided feedback and rated the commercial viability and market desirability of each proposition.
St. Angela's Food Technology Centre (SAFTC) provides food technology services and supports food businesses and producers. It offers services like new product development, food safety management, sensory analysis and training. SAFTC also partners with food companies on innovation projects through Enterprise Ireland's Innovation Voucher initiative. Sean Gilbride, a senior food technologist at SAFTC, gives a presentation on the services offered and examples of recent innovations developed with food companies.
The document summarizes an event on wireless sensor technology business opportunities held at Letterkenny Institute of Technology. The agenda included presentations from industry speakers, an ideation exercise to brainstorm and develop business concepts, and teams presenting value propositions to receive feedback. The document provides details on the speakers, ideation process, example ideas and opportunities developed, and next steps for participants.
1. Fast Branding is a strategic brand development process that delivers a practical toolkit including a name, logo, and marketing materials to drive sales and business value.
2. It shapes innovations to meet market needs, communicate vision and potential to stakeholders, and persuade them to invest in the business.
3. Fast Branding accelerates growth by helping businesses lead in new market spaces, own a core difference, explain their value proposition stickily, and engage audiences through integrated communications.
Presentation given at launch of the The Fuse Initiative on 23rd June 2011. The Fuse Initiative is a two year project that aims to ignite business growth in the south east.
This document discusses Ray Speer's background working in technology start-ups and the semiconductor industry. It provides an overview of his experience as CTO and director of ChipSensors, a fabless semiconductor company developing embedded silicon sensors, and as VP of Analog Technology at Parthus Technologies, an analog IC design consultancy. The document also outlines some lessons learned for starting technology companies, including building the right team with diverse skills, developing proofs of concept early, and the importance of networking and partnerships.
The document discusses cloud computing from an enterprise perspective. It provides an overview of NICTA, an Australian research organization, and its work on cloud computing solutions. It then summarizes a proof of concept experience conducted by NICTA for an enterprise, covering workload suitability for cloud, technical architecture, migration issues, and business/commercial considerations. Finally, it discusses challenges of software engineering for and in the cloud, such as data and architectural differences, and NICTA's current and future research in this area.
The document summarizes an event about building a future in cloud computing held at the University of Limerick. It includes welcome remarks from Enterprise Ireland and Intel, presentations on delivering breakthrough innovation from Dolmen and INNOVATOR, and a presentation on market trends from Avesten. Attendees participated in team brainstorming and presentations of opportunities. They were encouraged to join LinkedIn and social media groups to stay updated on future IDEAGEN events.
This document discusses a presentation by Ideagen on medical innovation. Ideagen is an Irish company that helps clients bring new ideas to market through a team of researchers, designers, engineers, and other specialists. The presentation covers topics like market trends in healthcare, technical trends in areas like miniaturization and telemedicine, and policy drivers of innovation like public healthcare goals. Attendees participated in an exercise where they brainstormed ideas, developed a proposal, and presented their medical innovation concept to the group.
TJ Hughes, HPSU Industrial & Life Sciences Enterprise Irelandthreesixty
This document discusses Enterprise Ireland and the medical technologies sector. It notes that Enterprise Ireland works with Irish and foreign companies across the economy, including high potential startups, established SMEs, and multinationals. The medical technologies sector includes 250 clients focused on medical devices and technologies, generating over €1 billion in annual sales and employing 6,000 people in Ireland. The document outlines key areas and global markets for medical technologies and notes that emerging markets like China, India, Brazil and Mexico are growing fast, while the US, Western Europe and Japan currently dominate the global market.
Charles Spinosa is the Group Director and Leader of Marketing Practices at VISION. He has helped clients enter difficult markets and find efficiencies in supply chains. The marketing practices at VISION help clients with new products, branding, media integration, and investor relations.
David Walsh is the Chief Executive Officer of Netwatch. He has led the company's growth to 95 employees and a new headquarters building. Netwatch provides security solutions using technologies like GPS tracking and audiovisual detection.
Louise Phelan is the Vice President of Customer Solutions and EMEA Merchant Services at PayPal. She oversees customer service and risk management from PayPal's European center of excellence in Dublin, which employs almost 1,850
- 96% of unhappy customers don't complain but 91% will simply leave and never return, while happy customers who get their issues resolved will tell 4-6 people about their positive experience.
- It costs 6-7 times more to acquire a new customer than retain an existing one. 68% of customers who leave do so because they were unhappy with how they were treated by customer service.
- A good customer service strategy can reduce costs by up to 35% while boosting revenue by 35% by balancing costs, quality, and revenues when restructuring call centers.
The document discusses Teagasc Food Industry Development and the supports it provides to the Irish food processing sector. Teagasc aims to promote innovation and competitiveness through knowledge transfer, training, consultancy, and product development assistance. It has facilities in Dublin and Cork for processing, packaging, testing, and incubation. Staff provide expertise in areas like food safety, standards, processing technologies, and product development. Teagasc works with industry stakeholders and provides over 300 clients annually with various services to develop and improve their businesses.
Ideagen food product development for artisan and sme sectorsthreesixty
The document outlines an agenda for a food product development workshop hosted by Teagasc and Enterprise Ireland on October 25th 2011. It included welcome remarks, a presentation on the Ideagen process for innovation, a session on defining innovation, brainstorming product opportunities in teams, and presenting value propositions for feedback. The workshop concluded with information on follow up activities.
This document discusses the concept of cloud computing and how it relates to data centers. It can be summarized in 3 sentences:
Cloud computing refers to powerful applications and services being delivered over the internet, and major companies are building massive data centers to power these cloud services, using virtualization and distributed computing techniques to maximize efficiency and scalability across large numbers of commodity servers located near cheap energy sources. While cloud computing remains a fuzzy concept, continued development of data center operating systems and distributed computing algorithms may help optimize utilization of computing resources across these large cloud infrastructures.
The document discusses using ambients and service-oriented architecture (SOA) approaches to address challenges in cloud computing architectures. It proposes an Ambient-SOA modeling language that allows developers to design ambient-aware models and generate executable code. This approach represents different cloud resource types as ambients and allows applications to be dynamically reconfigured across cloud boundaries when resource demands change.
This document provides a summary of the opportunities for European cloud computing beyond 2010. It finds that while cloud technologies have proven commercially successful, many capabilities have yet to reach their full potential. There are technological gaps around scalability, data management, programming models, and security that require further research. Additionally, a lack of economic and legal understanding poses non-technological barriers. The report recommends that Europe focus research on extending cloud capabilities while addressing open issues through collaboration between experts from both industry and academia.
Jenny Melia presented on opportunities in the global food market. Key trends include rising middle classes, food security concerns, and demand for functional and "free from" foods. Successful innovations meet consumer demands for health, convenience, and customization. Companies should understand customer needs, identify gaps, and add value through new products, packaging, and marketing strategies like social media. Extending brands to new users and markets provides opportunities for growth.
Jenny Melia presented on opportunities in the global food market. Key trends include rising middle classes, food security concerns, and demand for functional and "free from" foods. Successful innovations meet consumer demands for health, convenience, and customization. Companies should understand customer needs, identify gaps, and add value through new products, packaging, and marketing strategies like social media. Extending brands to new users and markets provides opportunities for growth.
The document summarizes an event on environmental trading opportunities held at the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick on November 23rd, 2010. It includes an agenda for presentations and exercises on identifying business ideas related to carbon trading. Attendees participated in brainstorming sessions and developing value propositions for potential carbon trading concepts. The ideas were then presented to industry speakers who provided feedback and rated the commercial viability and market desirability of each proposition.
St. Angela's Food Technology Centre (SAFTC) provides food technology services and supports food businesses and producers. It offers services like new product development, food safety management, sensory analysis and training. SAFTC also partners with food companies on innovation projects through Enterprise Ireland's Innovation Voucher initiative. Sean Gilbride, a senior food technologist at SAFTC, gives a presentation on the services offered and examples of recent innovations developed with food companies.
The document summarizes an event on wireless sensor technology business opportunities held at Letterkenny Institute of Technology. The agenda included presentations from industry speakers, an ideation exercise to brainstorm and develop business concepts, and teams presenting value propositions to receive feedback. The document provides details on the speakers, ideation process, example ideas and opportunities developed, and next steps for participants.
1. Fast Branding is a strategic brand development process that delivers a practical toolkit including a name, logo, and marketing materials to drive sales and business value.
2. It shapes innovations to meet market needs, communicate vision and potential to stakeholders, and persuade them to invest in the business.
3. Fast Branding accelerates growth by helping businesses lead in new market spaces, own a core difference, explain their value proposition stickily, and engage audiences through integrated communications.
Presentation given at launch of the The Fuse Initiative on 23rd June 2011. The Fuse Initiative is a two year project that aims to ignite business growth in the south east.
This document discusses Ray Speer's background working in technology start-ups and the semiconductor industry. It provides an overview of his experience as CTO and director of ChipSensors, a fabless semiconductor company developing embedded silicon sensors, and as VP of Analog Technology at Parthus Technologies, an analog IC design consultancy. The document also outlines some lessons learned for starting technology companies, including building the right team with diverse skills, developing proofs of concept early, and the importance of networking and partnerships.
The document discusses cloud computing from an enterprise perspective. It provides an overview of NICTA, an Australian research organization, and its work on cloud computing solutions. It then summarizes a proof of concept experience conducted by NICTA for an enterprise, covering workload suitability for cloud, technical architecture, migration issues, and business/commercial considerations. Finally, it discusses challenges of software engineering for and in the cloud, such as data and architectural differences, and NICTA's current and future research in this area.
The document summarizes an event about building a future in cloud computing held at the University of Limerick. It includes welcome remarks from Enterprise Ireland and Intel, presentations on delivering breakthrough innovation from Dolmen and INNOVATOR, and a presentation on market trends from Avesten. Attendees participated in team brainstorming and presentations of opportunities. They were encouraged to join LinkedIn and social media groups to stay updated on future IDEAGEN events.
This document discusses a presentation by Ideagen on medical innovation. Ideagen is an Irish company that helps clients bring new ideas to market through a team of researchers, designers, engineers, and other specialists. The presentation covers topics like market trends in healthcare, technical trends in areas like miniaturization and telemedicine, and policy drivers of innovation like public healthcare goals. Attendees participated in an exercise where they brainstormed ideas, developed a proposal, and presented their medical innovation concept to the group.
TJ Hughes, HPSU Industrial & Life Sciences Enterprise Irelandthreesixty
This document discusses Enterprise Ireland and the medical technologies sector. It notes that Enterprise Ireland works with Irish and foreign companies across the economy, including high potential startups, established SMEs, and multinationals. The medical technologies sector includes 250 clients focused on medical devices and technologies, generating over €1 billion in annual sales and employing 6,000 people in Ireland. The document outlines key areas and global markets for medical technologies and notes that emerging markets like China, India, Brazil and Mexico are growing fast, while the US, Western Europe and Japan currently dominate the global market.
Charles Spinosa is the Group Director and Leader of Marketing Practices at VISION. He has helped clients enter difficult markets and find efficiencies in supply chains. The marketing practices at VISION help clients with new products, branding, media integration, and investor relations.
David Walsh is the Chief Executive Officer of Netwatch. He has led the company's growth to 95 employees and a new headquarters building. Netwatch provides security solutions using technologies like GPS tracking and audiovisual detection.
Louise Phelan is the Vice President of Customer Solutions and EMEA Merchant Services at PayPal. She oversees customer service and risk management from PayPal's European center of excellence in Dublin, which employs almost 1,850
- 96% of unhappy customers don't complain but 91% will simply leave and never return, while happy customers who get their issues resolved will tell 4-6 people about their positive experience.
- It costs 6-7 times more to acquire a new customer than retain an existing one. 68% of customers who leave do so because they were unhappy with how they were treated by customer service.
- A good customer service strategy can reduce costs by up to 35% while boosting revenue by 35% by balancing costs, quality, and revenues when restructuring call centers.
The document discusses Teagasc Food Industry Development and the supports it provides to the Irish food processing sector. Teagasc aims to promote innovation and competitiveness through knowledge transfer, training, consultancy, and product development assistance. It has facilities in Dublin and Cork for processing, packaging, testing, and incubation. Staff provide expertise in areas like food safety, standards, processing technologies, and product development. Teagasc works with industry stakeholders and provides over 300 clients annually with various services to develop and improve their businesses.
Ideagen food product development for artisan and sme sectorsthreesixty
The document outlines an agenda for a food product development workshop hosted by Teagasc and Enterprise Ireland on October 25th 2011. It included welcome remarks, a presentation on the Ideagen process for innovation, a session on defining innovation, brainstorming product opportunities in teams, and presenting value propositions for feedback. The workshop concluded with information on follow up activities.
This document discusses the concept of cloud computing and how it relates to data centers. It can be summarized in 3 sentences:
Cloud computing refers to powerful applications and services being delivered over the internet, and major companies are building massive data centers to power these cloud services, using virtualization and distributed computing techniques to maximize efficiency and scalability across large numbers of commodity servers located near cheap energy sources. While cloud computing remains a fuzzy concept, continued development of data center operating systems and distributed computing algorithms may help optimize utilization of computing resources across these large cloud infrastructures.
The document discusses using ambients and service-oriented architecture (SOA) approaches to address challenges in cloud computing architectures. It proposes an Ambient-SOA modeling language that allows developers to design ambient-aware models and generate executable code. This approach represents different cloud resource types as ambients and allows applications to be dynamically reconfigured across cloud boundaries when resource demands change.
This document provides a summary of the opportunities for European cloud computing beyond 2010. It finds that while cloud technologies have proven commercially successful, many capabilities have yet to reach their full potential. There are technological gaps around scalability, data management, programming models, and security that require further research. Additionally, a lack of economic and legal understanding poses non-technological barriers. The report recommends that Europe focus research on extending cloud capabilities while addressing open issues through collaboration between experts from both industry and academia.
Jenny Melia presented on opportunities in the global food market. Key trends include rising middle classes, food security concerns, and demand for functional and "free from" foods. Successful innovations meet consumer demands for health, convenience, and customization. Companies should understand customer needs, identify gaps, and add value through new products, packaging, and marketing strategies like social media. Extending brands to new users and markets provides opportunities for growth.
Jenny Melia presented on opportunities in the global food market. Key trends include rising middle classes, food security concerns, and demand for functional and "free from" foods. Successful innovations meet consumer demands for health, convenience, and customization. Companies should understand customer needs, identify gaps, and add value through new products, packaging, and marketing strategies like social media. Extending brands to new users and markets provides opportunities for growth.
Using the cloud to facilitate global software development challengesthreesixty
The document discusses using cloud computing to address challenges in global software development (GSD). It begins by outlining key GSD challenges like geographic, cultural, linguistic, and temporal distance between distributed teams. It then provides an overview of cloud computing models like Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). The document proposes using cloud services to structure and streamline GSD activities. Specifically, it argues cloud services could improve collaboration, address cultural/language differences, and enhance knowledge transfer between remote teams. Tables map how cloud characteristics like on-demand access and centralized data could help mitigate specific GSD challenges related to coordination, communication, and project management
Designing and delivering public services on the cloudthreesixty
This document proposes a cloud-based platform called the T-Shaped platform to help public service organizations design and deliver services in a more cost-effective way by reducing complexity. Currently, developing public services requires in-house experts across many domains and technologies, which increases costs significantly. The T-Shaped platform aims to leverage reusability of services and customization through guidelines to allow non-experts to develop services on the cloud and reduce infrastructure costs. It also describes a motivating scenario showing the high costs of traditional in-house development models for public services.
The document summarizes a presentation on performance engineering for cloud computing. It discusses previous work on performance engineering and examples applying those techniques to problems in cloud computing. Specifically, it examines logging as an example and outlines some future directions for performance engineering in cloud environments.
Threesixty - Branding as a driver of business growththreesixty
This document discusses branding and its role in driving business growth. It provides an overview of what branding is and highlights some key elements of successful brands, including having a higher purpose, a bold number one claim, and clear differentiation. It then presents a case study of Nualight, an LED lighting company that saw 10 times growth after working with a branding agency to develop a new positioning strategy, visual identity, and approach to customer engagement and marketing. The rebranding effort helped transform Nualight from a perceived as a generalist, small company to a global leader in its niche market within 7 weeks.
The document discusses consumer lifestyle trends and how companies can identify and understand emerging trends to inform business strategies. It provides an overview of a trends framework and methodology for identifying trends through top-down and bottom-up research. Several trends are then detailed relating to health, leisure, and sustainability with examples of how the trends have evolved over time. The document concludes with points for businesses to consider around navigating challenges and planning for longer term trends.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Jim Mulcahy, Manager of the Prepared Consumer Foods Department at Enterprise Ireland. The presentation discusses trends in the food industry, including increasing demand for convenience and healthy options. It also outlines Enterprise Ireland's strategy of focusing on competitiveness through lean business practices, innovation through new product development, and management development. Some strategic options suggested for food companies include developing new products suited for changing climate or expanding into related areas like organic foods, agri-tourism, or food-tech packaging solutions.
The document discusses a workshop on therapeutics as an evolving sector, with speakers from Solvotrin Therapeutics and Enterprise Ireland. It outlines several team brainstorming sessions where ideas were proposed around linking universities, SMEs, and multinational companies in areas like cellular assets, clinical trials funding, and startup support. The overall goal was to explore opportunities to strengthen collaboration between academia and industry in therapeutics.