CIT’s Relationship with Industry through Collaboration, Service Provision and Research Orla Flynn Thursday 4 th September

Topics 2 ENGAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE ECOSYSTEM EXEMPLARS

CIT’s Engagement Philosophy (Things we Worry About) How do we work with companies from an innovation point of view? If someone has an idea, what services do we provide via our ILO/Rubicon/R&D? If a company wants to collaborate with us, how do they go about doing this? 3 BusinessEnterpriseProfessionsCommunity

Infrastructure Extended Campus Research and Innovation Supports 4

CIT Extended Campus CIT established the CIT Extended Campus in November 2011 following successful lead in SIF-funded collaborative REAP project Facilitates sharing of information and practice - on engagement, external organisations and contacts in order to support and contribute to institutional strategy and knowledge. A single point of contact for external organisations seeking to interact with academics and researchers in CIT for graduate formation, workforce development or research and innovation. 5

Three Pillars of Engagement ( from Sheridan, 2014 ) 6 CIT Engagement Graduate Formation Research and Innovation Workforce Development Curriculum design Course review/advisory boards Guest lecturers/ masterclasses Site visits Work Placement Work-based projects Curriculum design Course review/advisory boards Guest lecturers/ masterclasses Site visits Work Placement Work-based projects Recruitment Customised course development CPD RPL Work-based learning Recruitment Customised course development CPD RPL Work-based learning Consultancy Use of equipment and facilities Exploitation of research outcomes Licensing and Patents Incubation centres Consultancy Use of equipment and facilities Exploitation of research outcomes Licensing and Patents Incubation centres

Industry Liaison Office (ILO) Licenses / Assignments / Options / Spin Outs / Spin Ins Enterprise Programmes Advice / mentoring for start-ups BioExplor e Photonics CIT’s Research and Innovation Ecosystem

Exemplars PMD Solutions (Myles Murray) Alanya – start-up company working with Rubicon and Nimbus, development of technology for animal health monitoring systems Radisens – award-winning start-up company working with Rubicon, Nimbus, MEDIC and CAPPA, developing new Point-Of-Care diagnostic technology UTRC – multinational company, working with Nimbus collaboratively to build energy management solutions Exxcel – at Rubicon, Female entrepreneurship programme targetting the STEM sector – starting SOON 8

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