Digital Enterprise Research Institute Connecting with Industry

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Digital Enterprise Research Institute
Connecting with Industry

• Mr. Michael Turley, CEO

Michael.Turley_at_deri.org 21st October 2009
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Digital Enterprise Research Institute
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DERI - Some Statistics

• Located at the National University of Ireland,
  Galway
• Founded June 2003 as a CSET (Centre for Science,
  Engineering and Technology) funded by SFI
  (Science Foundation Ireland)
• Status August 2009 about 120 members and growing
• Largest Semantic Web Research Institute in the
  World
• Research Publications gt 550. Participate in 12
  standardisation groups
• Over 70 PhDs /Masters in the pipeline
• 2 Professors, 14 Post Docs (PIs) and 15
  Research Assistants. Others are support
• Core Industrial Partners
• MNCs Cisco, Nortel, Ericsson, Fidelity
• SMEs Storm, Celtrak, Cyntelix, Slidepath
• Total Research Grants about 48 million from SFI
  (33m) EU Framework (10m), EI (5m), Industry
  (1m)

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DERI What DERI does

• Research and Applied Research i.e. SFI, EU, EI
• Produces PhDs and Masters
• Business Development - Project Acquisition and
  Delivery
• Finds Industry Partners for Projects
• IP and Licence generation
• Bizstart Spin outs/ins and potential CEO
  engagement

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Our Mission and Vision

• The Mission of the Digital Enterprise Institute
  is
• to exploit semantics for
• People
• Organisations
• Systems
• to collaborate and interoperate on a global scale

• DERI Galways vision is to be recognised as
  being among the leading international web science
  research institutes interlinking technologies,
  information and people to advance business and
  benefit society

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Getting to work The DERI House
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DERI Research Approach

• Academic Research
• Go beyond state of the art
• Publish and contribute to Standards
• Industry Collaborations
• Joint projects (SFI, Enterprise Ireland, EU,
  Companies)
• Patents and Licensing
• Open Source Prototypes
• Social Semantic Information Spaces (SIOC)
• Social Semantic Desktop
• Global Sensor Networks

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Opensource - Adoption of SIOC
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DERI - ECOSYSTEM
DERI LAND A network of companies exploiting
joint opportunities with DERI aka Semantic
Galway Bay
DERI LAB bridging the gap between research and
industry
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DERI Academic and Industry Engagement model
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DERI Funding mechanisms

• SFI - Funding for a 5 year period multiple
  projects in 1 plan
• 2 yearly reviews by an International panel
• Must have Industry partners (DERI has 8)
• Industry Partners must contribute 25 of funding
  (36 for DERI)
• Governance Board must include Industry Partners
  (4 on DERI Board)
• Collaborative Research agreement that covers IP
  and Commercialisation
• The Consortium has its own IP Committee

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CSET Industry Partners
Enablingnetworkedknowledge
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DERI Funding mechanisms

• EU - Funding by Project
• Funding typically for 3 years
• Multiple European academic and industry partners
• Consortium agreement that covers IP and
  commercialisation
• EI Funding by project
• Funding typically for 18 months to 3 years
• Single or multiple Irish industry partners
• Project agreement covers IP and commercialisation
• Private Industry Funding by Project
• Typically 12 to 18 months
• Single industry partner
• Industry Partner owns IP

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Selected Enterprise Ireland Projects

• eLite
• Enterprise Ireland ILRP, 3 Million Euro over 3
  Years, 8 Irish eLearning companies in consortium
• MAARS
• Scaleable financial fund management solution, EI
  Commercialisation funded Spin Out early 2010
• Firefly
• Time based eLearning environment, EI Technology
  Development with commercialization planned
• Sedici
• Zero-knowledge proof security in Fair Rights
  Management, Investor found at business plan
  stage
• Pegasus
• Semantic Search in Sharepoint (Storm
  Technologies)
• PPePR
• Plug and Play Electronic Patient Record system
  Licenced to Irish start up (Slidepath)
• Widgelix
• Widget Platform (Cyntelix)

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NUIG - The Technology Transfer Office (TTO)

• What the TTO does
• IP filing and patenting
• Project Proposal assistance e.g. legal
• External Contract and Licencing deals
• Entrepreneur seeding programmes e.g. CCP and
  Business potential reviews
• Individual Spin Out deals
• Services the Start up Incubation space
• EI Mentorship Programmes e.g. Business Partner

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The TTO Business model
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DERI Governance

• Governance
• There are three key groups that are involved in
  the governance of DERI
• Oversight Board
• Scientific Advisory Board
• Senior Executive Committee.
• DERI Oversight Board
• The Oversight Board provides governance,
  guidance and advice to the centre to ensure that
  its activities are consistent with its vision,
  goals and management plan.
• Representation from NUIG, Industry Partners,
  other Academic Institutions, other business
  representatives, DERI management

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DERI - Governance

• DERI Scientific Advisory Board
• Provides scientific and technical guidance,
  advice and evaluations on the strategic direction
  and performance of DERI.
• Identifies opportunities and promotes DERI when
  possible and appropriate.
• Represenation from international research bodies.
  Member of the Board is Sir Tim Berners-Lee,
  inventor of the Internet
• DERI Senior Executive Committee (SEC)
• The SEC ensures the effective running of the CSET
  operations, including management of the following
  activities Scientific, Administrative,
  Financial, Business Development, Outreach,
  Knowledge Transfer, Human Resources, and
  Organisational Development, and External
  Relationships.
• The SECs membership consists of the CEO,
  Director and Vice Director, and Operations
  Manager