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Science Foundation Ireland

Ireland: The Celtic Tiger and R&D

The National Foundation for Excellence in Scientific Research


The “Celtic Tiger” EconomyThe “Celtic Tiger” EconomyIreland’s Economic GrowthIreland’s Economic Growth

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AverageAnnual% RealGDPGrowth

Source: OECD Economic Outlook


The Irish EconomyThe Irish Economy

1990 2003GDP €m 36,312 137,867

GDP per capita € 10,357 35,197

Merchandise exports 18B 81B

Total Debt GDP 96.4% 33%

Total Labour Force 1.3M 1.9M

Inflation 3.4% 3.5%

Unemployment 12.9% 4.8%


The “Celtic Tiger Economy”The “Celtic Tiger Economy”Success in the 90’s:Success in the 90’s: Why?Why?

• Public policy e.g. Education

• Corporate tax

• People, skills, costs

• US boom, IT growth, EU Single Market

• Performance of Irish managers

• Flexibility, agility, creativity


Ireland’s urgency to create a knowledge base

• Competition in low cost manufacturing

• Little research infrastructure

• Little industrial research

• Small population and science base

• Little tradition of partnership


Government Strategy:Government Strategy:The Celtic Tiger in R&D?The Celtic Tiger in R&D?

• Move Ireland up value chain: research- and innovation-

driven economy

• Attract, Grow R&D activities within Ireland

• Broaden the activities of MNCs within Ireland

• Be supportive of indigenous SMEs, start-ups

SFI is a key component in this strategy

• build research excellence & and human capital

• foster academic-industry collaboration


Science Foundation Ireland:Science Foundation Ireland:A Brief History of SFIA Brief History of SFI

• Technology Foresight Report – April 1999

• Focus on ICT & Biotechnology

• SFI launched – July 2000

€646M from Dept of Enterprise, Trade & Employment

• Director General appointed 2001

• SFI becomes statutory body, summer 2003

http://www.ndp.ie/


Irish & SFI Imperatives

• Build top quality R&D teams

• Attract and build industrial research

• Build on tradition of entrepreneurship

• Create culture of partnership

• Inter-university

• University-industry

Maintain momentum of growth


SFI Actions to build & brand Irish R&DSFI Actions to build & brand Irish R&D

• Invest in best people & best ideas• Principal Investigator Award ~ €250k-€1M (4 years)

• President of Ireland Young Researcher Award ~€1M (5 years)

• Women in Science Career Advancement Awards

• Import leading scientists• SFI Research Professorships ~€2.5M (5 years)

• Create centres of critical mass • Centres for Science, Engineering & Technology (CSET) ~ €25M (5 years)

• Establish International Partnerships• Walton Visitor Award; Conferences & Workshops

• University-University-Industry Partnerships• Centres for Science, Engineering & Technology (CSETs)Centres for Science, Engineering & Technology (CSETs)• Industry Research Partnership Supplements ~€50k /yearIndustry Research Partnership Supplements ~€50k /year• And ALL SFI programsAnd ALL SFI programs


Some examplesSome examples


Principal Investigator GrantThe Photonic Systems Group

• World-renowned research team of four PIs led by Dr. David Cotter

• Team was formerly based at the Corning Research Centre (formerly BT Labs, 2000)

• Partnership with the Tyndall Institute

“SFI contintues to seek out opportunities like this that bring

together Ireland’s outstanding researchers with other first-rate

researchers from around the world” - Bill Harris, SFI Director

General


Industry Research Partnership Supplements: Industry Research Partnership Supplements:

Siemens & RCSI

• Prof. Jochen Prehn

Computational analysis of signalling networks during apoptotic nerve cell death

• Dr Denis Shields

Chemopeptidomics: Computer linkage of human proteome-derived short peptides with non-peptide drugs

• Dr Gerard Cagney

Systems and algorithms for protein identification and quantification

Examples:

• Collaborative projects

• Directly related to & enhance existing peer-reviewed projects

• Normally up to €50k (for PhD or post doc)


Investigator Programme:Industry collaborative partnerships

Wyeth Medica, Archport, Amersham & DCU€4 million SFI investment over four years

Professor Martin Clynes:

Gene Expression Profiles of Cultured Animal Cells for Improved

Biopharmaceutical Production Processes

Wyeth Research & UCD€7.2 million SFI investment over four years

Prof Ciaran Regan (with UCD and TCD collaborators):

Applied Neurotherapeutics Research Group

Examples:


Research ProfessorshipsA recruitment tool

Prof. Luke Lee

Research Title: Programme in BioMEMS

Home Institute: University of California, Berkley, USA

Prof. William Harrison

Research Title: Supporting Service-Oriented Software Development

Home Institute: IBM Thomas J. Watson Laboratories

• Outstanding researchers with distinguished international reputations

• Urgency about recruitment

• Awards normally up to €2.5M over 5 years

Examples:


ETS Walton Visitor AwardsETS Walton Visitor Awards

In honour of Ireland’s 1951 Nobel Laureate in physics

• Bringing International researchers from academia and industry to Ireland for periods of 3-12 months

• Strengthening Ireland’s connections to the international research community

• Enhancing Ireland’s reputation & culture as home of first-class research

• Fostering recruitment of excellent undergraduates, graduate students & post-docs


Prof. Jack Dongarra

Research Title: High-Level Programming Models & Tools for Grid Computing

Home Institute: University of Tennessee, USA

Dr. Christopher Fuchs

Research Title: Quantum Information Theory

Home Institute: Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA

Prof. Peter Wellstead

Research Title: Control as a Systems Technology for Technology Development

Home Institute: UMIST, UK

ETS Walton Visitor AwardsETS Walton Visitor Awards

Examples:


CSETs - Centres for Science, CSETs - Centres for Science, Engineering, & TechnologyEngineering, & TechnologyCampus-Industry PartnershipsCampus-Industry Partnerships

• SFI funding: up to €25 M (€5m/yr), over 5 yrs, renewable

• True centre: whole greater than sum of parts, synergy…

• Partnerships with industry: 20% cost share (particularly people) Real intellectual partnerships

• Strategically important to Ireland Inc.: advancing BioT and ICT

• Research excellence: potential to be best in world – “edge”

• Outstanding Director

• Important Education & Outreach component


Alimentary Pharmabiotic CentreDirector: Prof Fergus Shanahan

Web: apc.ucc.ie

Biotechnology CentresBiotechnology Centres

Regenerative Medicine

Institute

Director: Prof Timothy O’Brien

Web: remedi.nuig.ie

Centre for Future Diagnostics & HealthDirector: Prof Brian MacCraith

http://www.pg.com/

http://www.alimentaryhealth.ie/

http://www.bd.com/support/bdlogo.asp?site=&title=&country=&ctitle=


Digital Enterprise Research InstituteDirector: Dieter Fensel

Web: www.deri.ie

Centre for Research on AdaptiveNanostructures & NanodevicesDirector: John PethicaWeb: www.crann.tcd.ie

ISERC

Irish Software Engineering CentreDirector: Prof. Kevin RyanWeb: www.iserc.ie

ICT CentresICT Centres

http://www.crann.tcd.ie/

http://www.magnetic-solutions.com/index.htm

http://www.ibm.com/ie/

http://www.intel.com/cd/corporate/europe/emea/eng/europe/index.htm

http://www.motorola.com/

http://www.qad.com/


Centre for Telecommunications

Value-Chain-Driven ResearchDirector: Donal O’Mahony

Web: ctvr.tcd.ie CTVR

ICT Centres ICT Centres continuedcontinued

In cooperation with IDA Ireland:

http://www.lucent.com/


Education & OutreachThe next generation of Irish Scientists

• Speakers for Schools

STARs

• SFI Junior Scholarships: Young Women in Science

• STARs: Science Teacher Assistant Researchers

• Outreach Activities at SFI Research Centres

• UREKA: Undergraduate research experience awards


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Biotech Investments (€170M)Areas of Expertise, Intrinsic Strengths

Agri-Food

Medical Devices

Immunology

Microbiology

NeuroScience

Cell Biology

16%

35%8%

16%

9%

4%

12%

Systems

Biology


ICT Investments (€230M)Areas of Expertise, Intrinsic Strengths

Hardware Sectors

40%

18%

19%

15%

1%

7%

Nanotechnology 56m Transmission Systems 25m

Photonics 26m Advanced Manufacturing 21m

Storage 2m IC Research/Semiconductors 10m


Software Sector

30%

16%22%

16%

14% 2%

Software, Engineering & Artificial Intelligence 27m Networking & Communications System 14m

Knowledge & Web Base Systems 20m Computer Modelling & Visualisation 14m

Information Systems 13m Language Technologies 2m

ICT Investments (€230M) cont’d

Areas of Expertise, Intrinsic Strengths

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