About Enterprise Ireland

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About Enterprise Ireland
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Recent History

• Established in 1998 - Merged trade promotion
  body, enterprise development agency and
  technology support agency
• Created a one-stop-shop or holistic approach
  for Indigenous Enterprise Development

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Relationships
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Enterprise Irelands Mission

• To accelerate the development of world class
  Irish companies to achieve strong positions in
  global markets resulting in increased national
  and regional prosperity.
• Innovation is the core element of the new
  Enterprise Ireland Strategy, 2008-2010
  'Transforming Irish Industry.

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Key Objectives - Transforming Irish Industry

• 3 billion new export sales by 2007
• Double to 1050 the number of firms engaged in
  meaningful RD by 2013
• Increase the number of indigenous enterprises
  performing significant RD to over 100 by 2013
• Support the creation of 210 new High Potential
  Start-Up (HPSU) companies by year end 2007
• Implement productivity and competitiveness
  improvement projects in 300 firms by year end
  2007

In excess of 100,000 In excess of 2million
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Enterprise Ireland Client Companies

• 3,500 Companies (indigenous and natural
  resources)
• Total employment associated with these companies
  is 141,000.
• Total Sales 26.5 billion
• Total Exports 11.8 billion

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Enterprise Ireland International Network
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BUILDING IRELANDS KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

• Develop a national plan to increase the
  performance, efficiency and productivity of
  research in the higher education and the public
  sectors
• Sustain Irelands commitment to building its
  international reputation for research excellence.
• Turning Knowledge into Products and Services
• Develop the intellectual property management and
  commercialisation expertise and resources
  necessary to ensure effective and rapid
  exploitation of research generated in higher
  education and public research sectors.

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Focus of Strategy

• World Class Research
• Capturing, Protecting and Commercialising Ideas
  and Knowhow
• Research and Development for Enterprise,
  Innovation and Growth
• Science Education and Society
• Research in the Public Sector
• All-Island and International STI
• Implementation

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The EI Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy
Effective Industry Engagement With Third Level
Resource.
Realising Commercial Potential Of Irelands
Research Community.
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Building on the investment
Getting the system working right.
Research Environment
The Interface
Industry

• Quality RD Performers

• Sustained funding forinfrastructure

Where EI operates.

• Skills to manage

• Funding

• A culture to recognise and reward
  commercialisation

• The absorption of technology

• Contacts

• Effective systems to capture and protect it

• Influence

• Proper technology strategies thinking ahead

• Incubation space

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Innovation Flow
Commercialisation Of Research.
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1. Realising the commercial potential of
research

• Key element of Governments Strategy for Science,
  Technology Innovation 2006-2013
• Significant investment in research in Ireland in
  recent years.
• 2006
• Gross Expenditure on RD 2.3bn Higher Education
  Expenditure on RD 600m (10.5 annual increase
  )
• Recently launched initiatives- Applied Research
  Enhancement in the Institutes of Technology-
  Programme for Research in Third Level
  Institutions Cycle 4- Technology Transfer
  Strengthening Fund

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College Industry Interaction

• Innovation Vouchers
• Innovation Partnerships
• Campus Incubation
• Industry Led Research
• Competence Centres

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Innovation Vouchers Initiative

• Aims to Build Links between Small Businesses and
  Knowledge Providers
• Voucher (5,000) can be exchanged for Advice and
  Expertise from the Knowledge Providers
• Suitable Projects
• Require Innovative Solution
• Provide Additional Value for the Business
• Have On-going Benefits

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Innovation Vouchers

• All Small Enterprise Less than 50 Employees,
  with an Annual Turnover and / or Balance Sheet
  Not Exceeding 10m
• Any kind of innovation such as
• New Product Design / Development
• New or Improved Production Process
• New business model development
• New service delivery  customer interface
• New service development  
• Innovation / technology audit 
• Total Vouchers Issued to date 428
• Total Value of vouchers awarded to date 2
  Million

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Innovation PartnershipsCollaborative RD
between Industry Colleges
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R D

• Collaborative research between company(s) and 3rd
  Level Institutions.
• Open to all manufacturing and ITS companies
• Industrial Research into innovative products or
  processes
• Average of 120 Proposals/ Year
• Average project value is 120K rising to 800K
• www.enterprise-ireland.com/innovationpartnerships

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Project Requirements

Science / Technology

• Medium to High Risk

INNOVATION

• Technically Challenging

R D
Commercial

• Company Driven

Product Process Innovation
Competitive Advantage
In Ireland
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Process
Grant 55-70
Collaboration
4 - 6 wks
Company
Technical Assessment
Company 30-45
Innovative Industrial Research
Outline proposal
Full Proposal
Commercial Assessment
OK
OK
IRCC
FUND
College
Feasibility
Assessment
OK
Pays for College research salaries, materials,
travel other costs
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Project Cost structure
Project Costs (College)
Source of Funding
STAFF
Enterprise Ireland (Grant)
Equipment
Materials
Industrial Partner (Cash in-kind Contribution)
Travel
Other
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Intellectual Property Rights IPR

• Negotiable between academic and industrial
  partners inline with National Guidelines
• Generally Background IPR remain unchanged
• Publishing of valuable IPR should not take place
  before adequate protection is in place
• Always agree terms upfront before setting out a
  full agreement
• Argue financial input, intellectual input and
  capacity to exploit

http//www.sciencecouncil.ie/reports/ http//www.i
nnovation.gov.uk/lambertagreements/index.asp
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Key Features / Benefits

• 90 Eligible Proposals Funded
• Non - competitive
• Open Call All Year
• Easy to Use
• Quick Response (typically 8 Weeks)
• Dedicated researcher research facilities
• Access to up-to-date science / technology
• Skills availability post-project
• Reduced RD costs to company

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Campus Incubation
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3. Supporting balanced regional development
Letterkenny IT
DCU/ UCD/ TCD/ DIT
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Early beginnings

• National Technology Park Limerick
• Established 1984 as Ireland's first science and
  technology park
• Over 80 organisations employing over 3,000
  skilled people
• Balanced mix of multinational subsidiaries, Irish
  technology companies, RD entities and support
  services
• Occupy more than 30 buildings with a total floor
  area of circa 1.5 million sq.ft.
• University of Limerick is at the heart of the
  National Technology Park
• InnovationWorks Limerick - core entity is a
  digitally-networked Incubation Centre. Provides
  an integrated system for incubating and growing
  knowledge-based high potential companies

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Our Objectives

• To realise the commercial potential of Irelands
  research community,
• To foster entrepreneurship and campus company
  activity,
• To support balanced regional development.

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2. Fostering entrepreneurship

• EI Supports
• Focus of EIs Regions and Entrepreneurship
  Business Unit
• Leading to HPSUs supported by dedicated Unit
• Metrics
• EI 2005-2007 strategic target of 210 new high
  potential start-up companies supported.
• 76 supported in 2006. First time in 5 years that
  the number of new EI-backed HPSUs established
  outside Dublin exceeded those established within
  the Dublin region.

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Our Involvement

• In 2000, a focussed programme of support for
  incubators in Institutes of Technology was
  launched under the National Development Plan.
• This was consistent with an earlier activity
  supporting incubation space in universities.
• Purpose of the initiative to build and
  strengthen the innovation infrastructure linked
  to Institutes in order to grow new high potential
  start-up companies in the regions.

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Leading to ..

• To date, Enterprise Ireland has approved funding
  for 20 centres in 15 Institutes of Technology or
  equivalent third level colleges and four
  universities (DCU Invent, UCD Nova centre, NUI
  Galway and NUI Maynooth). 17 of these are now
  operational.
• EI has also supported 6 specialist bio-incubation
  facilities on university campuses.
• EI-approved investment in campus incubation
  activity amounts to 50m (with support from the
  European Regional Development Fund)
  predominantly capital with some management
  support.

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Results to date (Institutes of Technology)
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New Ideas

• Industry Driven Research
• Groups of companies working together
• Research agenda created around industry threats
  and opportunities
• Open call to research performers to undertake the
  work
• Close and direct engagement of companies
• Responsive research programmes
• Flexible models, can be as small as 4 companies
  with a common problem

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Industry Lead Research Projects in Informatics

• eLITe (eLearning Ireland Technologies)
• Project generated by the Irish eLearning CEO
  Forum
• Enterprise Ireland commitment 2 million over 3
  years
• Began Jan 1st 2006
• Mobile IMS Services
• Project generated by mobile software consortium
• Mobile services in an IP Multimedia System
  environment
• Work in progress

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Examples of measures of output

• Number of patents granted.

• Number of post graduates trained in industry
  relevant research and moving into industry.

• Numbers of projects completed and commercialised
  successfully.

Examples of measures of impact

• Numbers of licenses agreed and signed with
  companies.

• Sales of products arising from technology
  licensed.

• Number of new high potential start ups arising
  from research.

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New funding initiative Competence Centres

• Competences Centres are major funding initiatives
  building on networks experience
• Long-term and important college industry
  relationships
• A number of applications to the competence centre
  program have been received in areas such as
• Applied Nanotechnology
• Achieving Business Value through IT Innovation
• Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing
• Advanced Manufacturing Productivity Centre
• BioEnergy Initiative

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Transforming Irish Industry 2008-2010
Transforming Irish Industry 2008-2010
Enterprise Ireland Transforming Irish Industry
2008-2010