how can cit support the innovation agenda of our sme’s? orla flynn, cit wednesday 28 january 2015...

How can CIT support the Innovation agenda of our SME’s?

Orla Flynn, CIT

Wednesday 28 January 2015

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Topics

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PEOPLE

FACILITIES

TRAINING

RESEARCH

CIT – About us

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CIT – www.cit.ie

• Largest IoT in Ireland

• 14,000 students

• Wide range of disciplines and levels

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• Largest Engineering Faculty in Ireland

• Science and Computing

• Business

• Tourism, Hospitality and Culinary … and more

Students and Graduates

• Many courses have compulsory placements/work experience, often in year 3

• Our final year projects are typically drawn from industry

• We like to have your input in designing our programmes

• Some of you are involved as external examiners

• We hire some of you as adjunct faculty, enables personnel from industry to get involved and sometimes lead on course delivery.

• We have graduates that you hire.

• We welcome getting your input to making them better.

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Engagement Infrastructure

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Extended Campus

Research

Facilities

Courses

ILO

CIT Extended Campus

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• A single point of contact for enterprises seeking to engage with CIT

• Can deal with a wide range of interactions from outside CIT: – requests for placement

students– recruitment– skills and training needs– innovation vouchers– access to equipment and

expertise.

http://extendedcampus.cit.ie

extendedcampus@cit.ie

Industry Liaison Office (ILO)

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Innovation Vouchers (5K)

CIT is one of the top 5 participants in Ireland in the

Innovation Voucher scheme

Innovation Partnerships

(up to max 250K)

Together with UCC contributes

regionally to deliver 21% of all Innovation Partnership projects.

The Rubicon Centre

• Largest and most successful incubator in Ireland

Other help is offered as well … such as:

• TESLA – an EU funded project through which you can get help to develop international markets and also develop new products.

• http://www.rubiconcentre.ie/ 9

Research

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Excellent Research

applied to real-world problems

7 multidisciplinary thematic areas: 4 core strategic research clusters: • ICT• Photonics• Lifesciences and Wellbeing• Maritime, Energy and Sustainable

Environment And emerging strengths in:

Exercise and health Entrepreneurship, competitiveness and

innovation Creative and performing arts

Collaborative Research

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About 60 research partnerships annually

with industry

Over 75% of our research involves an

industry partner;Just under 10% funded directly from industry.

Average annual research income is about 14 million.

http://www.cit.ie/innovation_research

Industry Liaison Office (ILO)

Licenses / Assignments / Options / Spin Outs / Spin Ins

Enterprise Programmes

Advice / mentoring for start-ups

BioExplore

Photonics

CIT’s Research and Innovation Ecosystem

Education and Training

Bespoke Course Design

Recognition of Prior Learning

Springboard Offerings

Evening, Part-time and Online courses

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Thank you!

Join the tour later to see for yourself …

Or for more information see:

http://extendedcampus.cit.ie Or email:

extendedcampus@cit.ie

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