1.Innovation, Marketing and New Technology ForesightDr. Stephen Flinter, Science Foundation IrelandResearch for Irelands Future

2. About SFI Founded in 2000 Statutory body in 2003 Annual budget 161m (2011), 156m (2012) Three core areas: ICT Life Sciences Energy 3. SFI Programmes Research Frontiers (>500 awards) 50k-150k (p.a.) Principal Investigator (>100 awards) 150-500k (p.a.) Strategic Research Cluster (19 awards) 1m-1.5m (p.a.) Centres for Science Engineering and Technology (9awards) 2m-3.5m (p.a.) 4. SFI Process Open calls Investigator-driven Bottom-up selection Expert, international peer review panels 5. Watts Steam Engine (1775) 6. Stephensons Rocket(1829) 7. Bells Telephone (1876) 8. Edisons Light Bulb (1878) 9. Benzs Internal CombustionEngine (1896) 10. Marconis Transatlantic Transmission (1901) 11. Broadcast Television (1936) 12. Powered Flight (1903) 13. Supersonic Flight (1947) 14. Space Flight (1957) 15. Commercial Supersonic(1969) 16. Commercial Bulk Carriers (1969) 17. Apollo 11 Moon Landing(1969) 18. Low Cost Airlines (1985-) 19. Platform Technologies Processing Storage Display Communications Sensing 20. Moores Law The number of transistors on an integrated circuitdoubles every 2 years The processor speed doubles every 18 months 21. Moores Law 22. Clock Speed 23. Multicore ProcessorsIntel Core i7 Processor 24. Storage 25. Reducing Cost of Storagehttp://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte 26. Samsung EcoGreen F2 HD103SI 1TB (2009) 1TB capacity 69 27. Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2TB (2010) 2TB capacity 89.95 28. Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2TB (2011) 2TB capacity 179.95 29. Flash Memory 30. iPod Introduced October2001 5 & 10 GB capacities 31. iPod Touch Introduced September2007 8, 32, 64GB 32. The Innovators Dilemma Clayton M. Christensen(2000) 33. Displays: from CRT to LCD 34. Touch Sensitive Displays 35. Electronic PaperAmazon Kindle 3 Sony Prototype Flexible EPD 36. Guesture-based Interaction 37. Communications 7.2mbps wireless (HSDPA) ~7mbps (WiMAX) 20mbps wired broadband 75-300mbps wireless (3G LTE) 100mbps WiFi (802.11n) 100-1000mbps wireless (4G) 1000mbps LAN 38. Photonics Used to supportbackbone networks 40 gbps 1.5 tbps 39. Cognative Radio Ultra wide band Multiple frequencies Software defined radio 40. Positional SensorsGPS Sensor In-car Sat Nav 41. Chemical/EnvironmentalSensorsMicrofluidics array & phosphate sensor package NCSR & Clarity CSET 42. Home/Building Sensors 43. Body SensorsAn Post cycle team at being fitted with Foster Miller sensor vest (Clarity Centre) 44. Internet & World Wide Web Web 1.0Web 2.0Pre-92 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 45. Web 3.0 Semantic Web Ascribing meaning todata Linked Data Connecting disparatedata sources DERI sig.ma semantic search engine 46. Internet of Things Billions or even trillionsof connected devices Both wired & wireless Sensor web & semanticweb 47. Assisted Living Using sensor web tomonitor well being Fall detection Variations in dailyroutine 48. Medical Devices Advanced signalprocessing Real-time data analysis Connected devicesNeonatal brain monitoring at UCC 49. Location Awareness Mobile devices Multiple sensors Layer additionalinformation based onlocation Layar augmented reality 50. Data Analytics Measuring yourwebsite personal finances business warehouse retail centre 51. Data Mining & Visualisation Enormous growth involume of data Growing need toanalyse and visualisedataData visualisation SFI Clique SRC 52. Conclusions Platform technologies continue to develop atexponential pace New applications emerging to exploit platformtechnologies Innovation happening at the integration points Analyzing the data becoming increasingly harder Sensor-based technologies next big thing 53. Contactstephen.flinter@sfi.ie@sflinter (Twitter)http://flinter.com/contact