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Overview September 2004

The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology Creating Wealth through Research and Innovation Godfrey Gaston ECIT Operations Director. Overview September 2004. Background - QUB. In past 20 years QUB has created over 50 spin-out companies

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Overview September 2004

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  1. The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology Creating Wealth through Research and Innovation Godfrey Gaston ECIT Operations Director Overview September 2004

  2. Background - QUB • In past 20 years QUB has created over 50 spin-out companies • UK no 1 university for spin-off company revenues - £90M p.a. • No 2 after Cambridge in terms of jobs created • Leading Knowledge Transfer Programme in UK • Extensive involvement with InvestNI over many years supporting FDI activity • Developed the vision that led to the creation of the NI Science Park • Previously a derelict site on H&W Shipyard • 1500 new jobs created on Science Park since 2004 • Generating at least £60m pa, ( est. £13m PAYE p.a.) to local economy • Significant numbers of other jobs in wider economy

  3. Institute of Electronics Communications and Information Technology

  4. ECIT Background • Project began April 1st 2003 – initially £37M over 6 years • InvestNI - £8.5M • Department of Education and Learning - £5.5M • QUB £24M commitment over first 5 years • £18M in new Research funding since • ECIT building opened in September 2004 flagship for Northern Ireland Science Park • Now houses around 160 people • QUB researchers plus 21 early stage companies • Also new £30M Centre for Secure Information Technologies

  5. The NISP estate 2007 The Legacy Building The site for The Concourse ECIT The Pump-House White Star House The Innovation Centre

  6. International Advisory Board

  7. Mission “To stimulate major opportunities for economic growth, by pioneering future directions and innovation in key areas of advanced technology through the integration of complementary research expertise in a world-leading facility”.

  8. Approach to Innovation Research Ideas Money Innovation

  9. Research Commercialisation Globally Leading Research Professional Business Infrastructure Senior Industry Experienced Engineers New advanced technology Products and Business Opportunities

  10. Key Attributes - Combining Research with Economic Development • Globally leading research - in carefully selected areasthat provide new exciting and potentially disruptive market opportunities • Critical mass of innovative industrial and academic partners – aligning opportunity with key research expertise • Membership scheme/ international advisory board • Research links with industry and universities world-wide with comparable interests • Work with industry - share longer term road-maps • Over-the-Horizon” research in areas with strong market potential relevant to expertise – NOT “Me too” R&D • Ambitious, “mission and team orientated” research that addresses major real-world problems

  11. Key Attributes - Combining Research with Economic Development • Essential not to compromise speculative “blue –skies” research • Senior Engineering Staff with many years in high tech industry in addition to university research staff in the same environment. • Bridge the gap between novel ideas and industrial application • An “Open Innovation” Environment • Inflows and outflows of knowledge to/from collaborators used to accelerate the innovation process • New thinking/New Paradigm • New support mechanisms

  12. Mission Driven Grand Challenges Examples

  13. WP1. System integration, user interaction and results exploitation WP2. Multimodal Sensor System WP6. Re-usable implementation software toolkit WP3. RF Modelling and counter measures WP5. Opportunistic, self-organising, wireless network development WP4. Multimodal dialogue management Figure 1: ISIS System and Work Packages ISIS: Intelligent Surveillance Sensor network for Public Transport

  14. Centre for Secure Information Technologies Anything that can be connected and would benefit from being connected will be connected

  15. Institute of Electronics Communications and Information Technology You see things and say “Why?” but I dream things that never were and say “Why not?” George Bernard Shaw

  16. Dr Godfrey GastonCSIT Director

  17. CSIT Mission • To be the UK’s National Centre for Innovation and Knowledge Transfer in Secure Information technologies – globally connected • Build on existing UK international industrial capability (global market currently £50bn p.a.) • Radically change the way UK university based research, innovation and industrial commercialisation are coupled

  18. CSIT Overview

  19. Strategic UK importance

  20. £30M Funding – 5 years • EPSRC (UK Government) • £4.7M research programme • £2.2M Core research staff • Technology Strategy Board • £2.5M Core commercialisation support staff • Industry • To £7M cash and in kind • QUB • £8.8M • InvestNI (Economic Development Agency) • £5.4M targeted

  21. Enterprise/Professional Education • Entrepreneur in Residence Scheme (UK, US, EU) – mentors assigned to PoC teams etc. • Enterprise Forum – business plan presentations to entrepreneurs, business leaders etc • Courses in entrepreneurship and business skills in Engineering • Coupling of ECIT/CSIT with MBAs • Masters in Entrepreneurship – practical based • Masters in Electronic Security • QUB Innovation Lectures/Chief Executives Club – International Business Leaders

  22. University links - Some examples

  23. Grand Challenge Themes • Convergence of physical and information security • As applied to: • Security in a hyper-connected world • Secure corridors • Cloud computing

  24. Open Innovation Process DSS NSS WESS ISS DIRECTOR Business Development Executive x 2 Commercial Director IP and External Contracts Operations & Finance Project Mgr GC1 Project Mgr GC2 Grand Challenges: Hyperconnected World & Secure Transport Corridors WP2 WP4 WP9 BAE Academics, Post-docs, PhDs: QUB & Other Partner Universities, eg UCL, Bristol, RHUL WP7 Thales Interested Member Companies WP1 WP6 Airwave Solutions WP3 Other WP5

  25. Metrics

  26. Working with CSIT • CSIT Membership • PhD Student sponsorship • Contract research • INI programmes • Knowledge Transfer Partnership • FP7 EU proposal

  27. CSIT Membership • Full (£30k) and Associate (£5k) levels of membership • Full membership • Seat on CSIT Industrial Advisory Board • Guide and oversee research agenda • Define project areas • Set training agenda • Early access to results • Early sight of IP with commercialisation potential • Up-front license to use results for internal use • Leadership position at CSIT meetings/colloquia • Network potential • Access to facilities • Leverage potential

  28. Summary • QUB long reputation of innovation and entrepreneurship • ECIT playing a leading role in innovation • Excellence in research and commercialisation • CSIT to take this to the next level • Consistent with recent UK government review on national centres.

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