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
INNOVATION
in BUSNESS
CENTRES
•Including
Placement/
Internship
CUSTOM
PROGRAMMES
•e.g. Induction,
Skills training,
Springboard
ACCESS TO
FUNDING
STAFF
EXPERTISE
•Education &
Research
•Industry &
Education
RESEARCH
CENTRES
DEDICATED
FACILITIES
FACILITIES AND LINKAGES
SERVICES
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Incubation Space
Concept Desk Space
Virtual Incubation
New Frontiers
• Research (EI Vouchers, Innovation
Partnerships)
• Students (Undergraduates & Post
graduates)
Market Research
Market Validation
Route to Market
Sales Process
IP / Patenting
Financials
Building the Team
Mentoring
Networking
RESEARCH CENTRES AND EMERGING
GROUPS
CiSET
Energy
MFRC
Marine and
Freshwater
SOFTWARE/APPS
GMEDTECH
Medical Device
HERITAGE
CiSET
• Focus: “…the integration of cost effective and reliable
sustainable energy technologies ”
1. Application
- Demand / Profile
- Energy Management/Storage
3. Technology
- Selection / Sizing
- Integration / Optimisation
2. Climate
- Energy Content
- Variability
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
CONTACT
RESEARCH OFFICE
ResearchOffice@gmit.ie
• How to engage with us
• Innovation Voucher
091-742761
• Innovation Partnership
• IRCSET Industry Partnership
• EU Funding Partnering
• Consultancy and Contract Services
CHIPRIGHT
• Company Background
• Brief overview of what we do
• The R&D item
• Experience with Innovation vouchers
CHIPRIGHT
Chipright
Enterprise
Ireland
GMIT
R&D
Irish
Customers
Micro-Chip
Engineering
Services
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 email / 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 2nd time