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FISC 2030Dr Paul Dodd

Director Industry Collaborative Programmes

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)

the foundation of the smart economy

SFI Funding ProgrammesIndustry / Academia Collaborative Programmes

Strategic Research Clusters (SRC)3-8 Principal Researcher teams + industry

30-50 researchers€7.5M+ per award5 year award term

19 live awards

Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET)

100-200 researchers€25M+ per 5 years

Funded for 10 years9 live awards

R&D in Ireland of relevance to FISC 2030

(snapshot!)

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Systems

Photonics Micro-nanoelectronics

Micro-systems

Materials

Devices

Sub-systems

Theory, modelling & design

Advanced Packaging & Interconnect

Si & III-V micro/nanoelectronic & photonic devices

III-V’s & functional oxides, nanomaterials, new structures

Central Fabrication Facility

• Based at UCC Cork

• Focused on ICT Hardware

• ‘From atoms to systems’

• Over 450 researchers

• 50+ Research Groups

• Si CMOS fab

• III-V fab

• GaN capability

Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork

- Novel interconnect technologies; self-assembly, nanoimprint, - Spinelectronic materials and devices for ‘beyond CMOS’- Advanced materials including graphene and other 2D materials- Nanobiotechnology: nanocantilever array technologies ++

Research

19 Principal Investigators – TCD & UCCCurrently >80 grad students, >50 post docsIndustry researchers in residenceOver 200 researchers in total

People

A center of excellence for nanoscience in IrelandPartnership with Schools of Physics and Chemistry at TrinityCollege Dubin, School of Chemistry, University College CorkMajor Industry partners: Intel, Hewlett Packard, DePuy ++

CRANN — Centre for Research on AdaptiveNanostructures and Nanodevices

Irish Research Centres – Some Examples

CSET Industry Partners

CTVR:Centre for Telecoms Research (Trinity College Dublin)

Digital Enterprise Research Institute (NUI Galway)   [World’s largest semantic web centre]

Centre for Next Generation Localisation (Dublin City U)

LERO – Irish software Engineering Centre (U. Limerick) 

CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies (UCD)

Social/Agency Collaborators Industry Collaborators

CSET Core

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CLARITY: Industry Collaborations

Industrial Base – Opportunities for Convergence / ICT Research

IntelMicrosoft

IBMOracleApple

HPDell

AdobeEMC2

Analog DevicesSymantec

McAfee

GoogleAccenture

ZengaFacebook

eBay AmazonYahoo

Linked InTwitter

EA BiowarePayPal

Eli LillyMerck

NovartisPfizerAbbott

Schering-PloughBausch & Lomb

MedtronicWyeth Medica

J & JBoston Scientific

ServicesICT Life Sciences

Some of the companies now pursuing ‘in‐house’ and collaborative R&D in Ireland

Key Challenges & Opportunities for SFI/Ireland

Future• We will continue to fund ‘long term’ ICT research

• Focus on Scientific Excellence and Socio‐economic impact in equal measures

• Consolidating research base to achieve critical mass  ‐ research prioritisation  

• We are a small country so we need to partner internationally

• New SFI Research Centres Initiative launched Feb 2012

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Further details;

Paul.Dodd@sfi.ie

www.sfi.ie

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