20091015 tssg overview

TSSG Executive Management• Willie Donnelly

– Director, TSSG • Also Head of Research in WIT

• Mícheál Ó Foghlú– Executive Director Research, TSSG

• Also director of Irish IPv6 Centre

• Barry Downes– Executive Director Innovation & Commercialisation, TSSG

• Also director of 3CS - Converged Communications Services

• Eamonn de Leastar– CTO, TSSG

TSSG is in ArcLabs• ArcLabs: building, centre, idea - a catalyst for innovation

– Combines R&D and Innovation in WIT under one roof– A formal structure in WIT to link research and innovation

• But it’s really about the people (and our track record)– Willie Donnelly et al (Director TSSG - 150 staff/students,

125 projects, 14 companies, 60 jobs in the companies)– Kathryn Kiely (WIT Manager Industry Services)– Tom Corcoran (Centre Manager, ArcLabs - 21 companies)– Bill O’Gorman (Centre for Entrepreneurship)– Eugene Crehan (SEEPP - 18 participants, historically 130

companies creating 320 jobs regionally)• TSSG/SEEPP co-location since 2001 in Confederation House

“Research & Innovation Centre” opened

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TSSG Research & Innovation• Teaching and Learning (WIT)

Taught Undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses

• Basic Research -The Science (HEA & SFI)

Postdocs, PhD students, Journal papers

• Applied Research -The Engineering (EUFP7)Industrial partners, Prototypes, Conference papers

• Commercialisation -The Entrepreneur (EI) Quality-driven software, Patents, Licensing , Spin-out, Spin-in companies

• Commercial Activity - (Separate from TSSG)Customers, VC Investment, Revenue

TSSG Macro Model

TTILO

CompaniesCommercial Experimental Development

Funding of projects

Institutional support and internal links

Spin-out, Spin-in, and Licencing

Incubation &Training

Enterprise Ireland

RSU CFM CFE

IP

TSSG Organisational Structure

OtherCompany

EI Client orMultinational

SEEP

P

TSSG Knowledge Management

CF-POC

Basic and Applied Research

Centre for Converged Services

Validation

Mícheál Ó Foghlú Barry Downes (3CS)

CF-POC

CORD /Feasibility

Funding

Operations Infrastructure

& Design

CIMMiguel Ponce de

Leon

PCSKevin Doolin

CSG

IMIS

ETA

Total Projects 125 projectsof which TSSG led 75 %

Active Projects Jan 2009 37 projectsCompleted Projects Jan 2009 78 projects

Average project = €450k, Total = €60 Million 1996-2009

Staff number = 140 (20 PhDs, 5 Faculty, 12 Postdocs)

Spin-in/Spin-Out company job number = 60

Partners = 150 academic & industrial partners working on funded projects

TSSG Funded Project Stats

Other1%

EI29%

EU31%

SFI21

HEA18%

approx 50 projects

approx 50 projects

5 projects

6 projects(4 capital)

Total: €60 M Funding (1996 – 2009) Total: 125 Projects

A Balanced Portfolio:

• Basic: HEA & SFI (39%)

• Applied: EU (31%)

• Pre-product: EI (29%)

(Basic includes capital expenditure i.e. buildings)

TSSG Funding Mix: All Projects

TSSG Positioning • Basic Research (HEA, SFI)

One of TOP 3 academic centre's in Ireland in telecommunications: WIT (TSSG), TCD (CTVR), DCU (RINCE)

• Applied Research (EU FP7) Irish winner of EU FP7 funding - twice nearest competitor Ranked Top 10 institute in Europe in Future Internet

research (i.e. on a par with Nokia, Ericsson, FhG FOKUS)

Engaged in many EU Technology Platforms at board level (eMobility, NEM, NESSI)

TSSG Positioning Contd…• Commercialisation (EI) One of the top research groups for commercialisation Leading edge innovation & technology development in:

IMSWeb 2.0Mobile

Commercial ‘Spin-offs’ (Separate from TSSG) Early stage technology clusters emerging based around TSSG work 60 jobs created in ‘Spin-Off’ companies linked to TSSG Continue to develop other companies in the marketplace

TSSG Research & Innovation Philosophy

• Research and innovation is non-linear: good ideas come from ALL parts of an ecosystem - requiring a balance of funding to maintain the flow of the ecosystem

• Equal value across all parts of ecosystem: basic research, applied research, and commercialisation, build expertise in VC funding and following stages

• Build research teams:utilise non-traditional staff (professional researchers) in applied and commercial research - fight academic norms/assumptions

Stokes’ Pasteur’s Quadrant A detailed Analysis of

Vannevar Bush, NSF, OECD Frascati and other ways in which basic and applied research have been split by funding mechanisms, to the detriment of technological innovation.

Stokes, Donald E. [1997] Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. Washington D.C., USA: Brookings Institution Press.

Stokes’ Pasteur’s Quadrant

Pure Basic Research

(Bohr)

Use-Inspired Basic Research

(Pasteur)

Taxonomies and ToolsResearchers are the users

Pure Applied Research

(Edison)

Quest for Fundamental understanding?

Considerations for Use ?

No Yes

No

Yes

(Adapted from Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, Stokes 1997, p. 73).

TSSG Industrial Engagement• Multi-national (examples)

– Ericsson, IBM, Cisco - partners SFI SRC FAME– Intel - partners EU FP7 projects

• Irish Indigenous (examples)– Eircom, Rococo, Mobile Aware - partners EI ILRP– Meteor, Druid - partners IMS Testbed

• TSSG Spin-out (examples - see next slides)– Headway, Zolk C, Feedhenry

• TSSG Spin-in (examples - see next slides)– MUZU

Headway Wins ‘Jolt Award’

The 'Oscars” of Software Development Industry Honor Innovation & Technological

Achievement

Winner:

Structure101 for Java

JOLT Award San Francisco

Zolk C

MUZU

Feedhenry

Carrier SDP & Web

services Layer

Contact Details TSSG Offices: TSSG (Waterford, Ireland) HeadquartersArcLabs Research & Innovation BuildingWIT West Campus, CarriganoreCo. Waterford, Ireland

TSSG (California, USA) Investment/VC Network 101 California StreetSuite 2450San FranciscoCA 94111 , USA

TSSG (Dublin, Ireland) Customer Meetings Digital Depot, Roe LaneThe Digital HubDublin 8, Ireland

Mícheál Ó FoghlúExecutive Director Research

TSSG, WITmofoghlu@tssg.org+353 51 302963 (w)

+353 86 8044640 (m)

Barry DownesExecutive Director 3CS

TSSG, WITbdownes@tssg.org

+353 51 302932 (w)+353 87 9075535 (m)