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