AAL

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CAREERING TOWARDS THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
Are business Academia geared up to provide a
future for high level researchers in Ireland?
9am - 2pm 30th November 2005 The Helix, DCU,
Dublin 9
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PROF. FERDINAND VON PRONDZYNSKI
President of IUA, President of DCU
Welcome to the Conference
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MR MICHEÁL MARTIN T.D
Minister for Enterprise, Trade Employment
Opening Address
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DAMIEN CLANCY
Managing Director, Aughinish Alumina
Strategic Development of RD Links with Academia
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Sustainable RD Investment for Sustainable
Research Careers

• Damien Clancy MD
• Aughinish Alumina Ltd

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Aughinish Alumina

• Located 25 miles west of Limerick City on the
  Shannon Estuary
• Large Heavy Chemical Plant
• Complex and highly integrated process
• Completed expansion to 1.8Mtpa of Alumina
  (Aluminium Oxide) in 2005
• Operating in a commodity industry which is very
  competitive, cost driven with little or no
  product differentiation.

Aughinish
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Company Strategy

• Objective To maintain margin
• In achieving this we must be productive and
  efficient
• 3 Fold
• Manage Environmental and Energy Costs
• Increase production to reduce fixed costs and
  overheads
• Position RD to protect the operation in the
  medium term

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RD History

• Pre -1999
• Directed and carried out by ALCAN off-shore in
  laboratories in Canada and in the UK
• Post -1999
• RD Vacuum
• Decreased dependence on ALCAN
• Sourced new RD providers
• Developed our RD Management Capability

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RD Strategy
University of Limerick

• To use a small number of world-class RD
  institutions to provide Aughinish with innovative
  solutions in line with the companys business
  strategy

• Australia
• World Class Refineries
• World Class Research

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Collaboration with University of Limerick
Internationally recognised Alumina Process
Research Centre
Capital Infrastructure Investment
Marie Curie Programme
Collaborative Agreement 5.2 million over 4
years Programme Focused Knowledge Retention
Low Key activity in a number of
Areas Structures put in place
Little RD Control
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2003
2004
1999
2005
2006
2007
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No of Researchers funded by Aughinish at UL
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Aughinishs RD Providers

• UL
• Close by
• World Class Facilities
• Academic Staff
• Very experienced in our sub processes
• Willingness and interest
• Government and EU Funding

• Australia
• Very knowledgeable on Alumina Refinery Processes
• Developed expertise over past 20 years with
  Industry support
• Excellent Facilities
• History of Industry Collaboration
• Keen understanding of Industry and its needs
• Very forward thinking

AAL encouraging the development of links between
groups through Practical means. Increases and
broadens the experience of researchers
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Our Collaborative Model

• 2003 signed a 4 year Collaborative Agreement with
  UL worth 5.2 million
• Moved towards Programme Based RD
• Building RD groups around a particular area of
  expertise, e.g.
• Crystallisation
• Computional Fluid Dynamics
• Committed Funding over a longer period
• Continuity
• Build up core expertise
• Retention of knowledge and skills
• Very suitable for training of new researchers
• Use the group to research on specific projects
  with a close link back into Industrial
  Organisation
• Access to laboratories
• Access to experience technical staff
• Industrial experience for researcher
• Encourage synergies between RD groups
• Link UL to other RD institutions world-wide that
  have applicable experience
• Bring the experts in the field to UL through an
  annual conference
• Generate Contacts
• New techniques

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Structure of Relationship
Bi Annual Updates To CEOs

• Collaborative Agreement
• A High Level view of how the 2
  organisations do business together
• Project Agreement (Very Important)
• Project needs to function on a Business
  Framework not an academic one.
• Needs of the Researcher also addressed

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Return on Investment

• No short term gains
• Takes about 2 years for results to flow
• Very confident about the long term potential to
  generate a high rate of return
• Using Public funding programmes to reduce risk
  and parallel / accelerate research activities

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Collaborative RD Funding An Industry
Perspective

• Very good support on the ground
• Industry Liaison at University level
• CHIU
• Very good facilities
• Access to large scale European Research
  Facilities to complement UL laboratories
• BUT
• A recognition by all that University Industry
  Collaboration is a key means of economic
  development
• A more co-coordinated strategy through 1
  government agency
• An array of government bodies involved often with
  different objectives

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Our experience of Collaborative RD

• A Partnership but unlike regular commercial
  relationships
• Develop synergies between technical disciplines
• Academic structures often make this difficult
• Be conscious of the needs of the Researcher
• Publication, publication, publication
• Some freedom in the research is needed, you are
  employing a skilled scientist or engineer not a
  technician.
• Think long term
• Examine the Australian model of Co-operative
  Research Centres
• Longer term funding models pulling industry and
  research institutions together.
• 3 year project based model is too short for
  researcher career development and quality of
  research may be suffering.

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DR. MARY MURPHY
Toxicology Manager, Remedi, NUI Galway
Experience of International Career Mobility
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An Experience of International and Intersectoral
Career Mobility

• Mary Murphy, PhD

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Traditional Academic Scientist Career Format

• Independent isolated laboratory
• Leadership centers around individual PI
• Small university departments devoted to a single
  discipline
• Substantial teaching commitments
• Individual investigator grant support for
  research
• Early tenure
• Expects to remain for life
• Main reporting structure includes grant
  applications and peer-reviewed publications

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Industry Scientist Career Format

• Teambased approach
• Role of individual scientist less important than
  the team
• Crosses multiple disciplines
• Heavy emphasis on strategic planning and project
  planning
• Short reporting cycle (1 month)
• Constant appraisal and reassessment
• Frequent changes in direction
• Subject to remote commercial pressures

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The Academic Laboratory

• Under full control of PI
• Informal
• Written laboratory notebooks
• Frequent public disclosure at conferences, in
  theses and abstracts
• Poor appreciation of the value of IP
• Little attention to Standard Operating Protocols
• Little attention to monthly reports
• Hands-off approach by senior management
• No application of Good Laboratory Practice
• Often poor safety standards

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The Industrial Laboratory

• Matrix management, multiple reporting structures
• Highly organised
• Document control systems
• Strong emphasis on protection of IP
• Public disclosure only after patent filing
• All procedures defined by Standard Operating
  Protocols
• Multiple written reports (at least monthly)
• Full compliance with GLP necessary
• Strong emphasis on safety

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University-Industry Partnership

• Many scientists now move between industry and
  academia
• University research must have industry relevance
  (SFI, IDA)
• Traditional university department structure less
  relevant
• Centre-like behaviour
• Economic development depends on research having
  some industrial relevance
• New metrics include patents filed,
  commercialization activities based on spin-off
  enterprise and technology licensing
• Technology Transfer Office more relevant

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International and Intersectoral
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Academic Research Experience

• Ireland
• Small research groups
• Little exposure to other research strands or
  collaborative research
• Few post-doctoral researchers
• Specific projects with limited development of
  skills
• Few opportunities to develop presentation or
  report writing skills
• Little input by clinicians

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Academic Research Experience

• US
• Clustered research
• Groups with broad range of skills
• High proportion of postdoctoral researchers
• Greater emphasis on presentations
• Strong involvement of clinicians

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Industrial Research Experience

• Stem cell company start-up
• Multi-tasking
• Project-oriented with multidisciplinary group
• Research
• Quality assay development
• Pre-clinical development
• Regulatory submissions
• Strong emphasis on IP but also publications and
  conference presentations
• Grant-writing enabled and encouraged

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Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI)

• Located at NUI, Galway and UCHG
• Funded under SFI campus-industry partnership
  Centres for Science Engineering and Technology
  (CSET) programme
• Vision
• To develop a new and realisable paradigm for
  medicine in the future utilising minimally
  invasive therapeutic approaches to promote organ
  and tissue repair and regeneration rather than
  replacement
• Stem cell and gene therapy

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Bone Marrow Stem Cells
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Stem Cell
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REMEDI Programmes in Stem Cell Biology

• Adult stem cells
• Bone marrow
• Adult peripheral blood
• Cardiac stem cells
• Umbilical cord blood
• Adipose Tissue
• Stem Cell Proteomics and Phage Display
• Stem Cell Genomics
• Transcription factors
• Regulation of Differentiation
• Stem cells in disease
• Osteoarthritis
• Type 1 diabetes

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Target Research Areas in Stem Cell and Gene
Therapy

• Cardiovascular diseases
• Orthopaedic diseases
• Pulmonary diseases
• Neurological diseases
• Basic stem cell biology
• Gene vector development

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REMEDI Partners

• Medtronic
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Charles River BioLabs
• Animal models of human disease

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Regenerative Medicine Institute
Gene Therapy
Adult Stem Cell Therapy
Genomics
Basic Research
Immunology
Proteomics
Toxicology/Preclinical Testing
GMP Manufacturing
Clinical Development
Commercialization
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Industry Partnerships and Knowledge Transfer at
REMEDI

• Full partner involvement in drawing up research
  programme plans
• Clear reporting structures
• Involvement of the industry partners in REMEDI
  management activities
• Quarterly detailed progress reports
• Regular visits of REMEDI Directors to partner
  headquarters and vice versa
• Partner membership of the REMEDI IP Advisory
  Committee and full access to information on
  invention disclosures and patent filings
• Review of all manuscripts, abstracts, posters
  etc. prior to submission
• A close and bilateral working relationship
  between REMEDI project scientists and partner
  scientists

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RESEARCHER Skills for Industry

• Skills that industry needs from researchers
  coming out of university
• Broad skills base
• Flexibility
• Knowledge of GLP, GMP, Quality Issues
• Understanding of Intellectual Property Issues
• Knowledge of clinical trial design and regulatory
  issues
• Good presentation skills to diverse audiences
• Understanding of project-oriented management
• Team-based
• Deadline-oriented

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Can Universities/Institutes meet this challenge?

• More practical courses
• Increase industrial placements
• Team-based projects
• Business modules in science degrees
• IP
• Project management techniques
• Legal/regulatory affairs
• Modules on clinical research strategies
• Modules taught by industry leaders
• Post-graduate entrepreneurial courses
• Business writing courses

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Universities/Institutes - Industry

• Greater interaction/trust
• Courses created after consultation
• University/Industry/Clinicians
• Constant feedback

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BRENDAN OCALLAGHAN
Plant Manager, Tyco Healthcare
Sourcing Skilled Researchers for the
Pharmaceutical Industry
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DR. CONOR LONG
Project Director, expertiseireland.com
expertiseireland.com A Gateway to Irelands
Knowledge Base
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• Conor Long - Project Director
• Celia Gallagher - Project Manager

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• Expertiseireland.com is owned by IUA
• Funded by InterTradeIreland

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Knowledge holder
Knowledge user
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Knowledge holder
Knowledge user
Academics Industrialists Consultants Media
Academics Industrialists Consultants Media
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Knowledge holder
Knowledge user
Academics Industrialists Consultants Media
Academics Industrialists Consultants Media
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• expertiseireland.com
• What is it?
• Operational concept
• Current status
• Future developments

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What is expertiseireland.com?

• All island portal for expertise
• Large database of professional output
• Simple search tool
• Information on funding opportunities (SME)
• Technology transfer opportunities
• Growing database of commercial expertise

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Operational concept

• Simple data collection
• Minimal impact on data providers
• Up-to-date data
• Obvious benefits to all stakeholders

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Data flow
UU
QUB
UCD TCD DCU NUIM DIT ITT
NUIG
UL
UCC
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Current status

• All universities, North and South of the border,
  DIT and ITT contributing expert profiles
• Other ITs coming on stream
• Over 4,000 profiles updated daily (50,000
  citations, 30,000 conference presentations)

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Future developments

• POP (project opportunities partnership) Search
• Direct access to source material
• Linkage to European expertise portal

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Thanks

• CHIU
• InterTradeIreland
• Dr Celia Gallagher

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PANEL DISCUSSION
Damien Clancy Aughinish Alumina Dr. Mary
Murphy Remedi, NUI Galway Brendan OCallaghan
Tyco Healthcare
Chaired by Dr Jim Ryan, Circa Consulting Group
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CAREERING TOWARDS THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
Are business Academia geared up to provide a
future for high level researchers in Ireland?
30 Minute Coffee Break - Top Floor Foyer
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PROF. KEVIN RYAN
Principal Investigator, ISERC, UL
Funding The Oil in the Wheels of Collaboration
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University of LimerickOLLSCOIL LUIMNIGH
Business Academia LinkagesExamples of
Success Professor Kevin Ryan Careering Towards
the Knowledge Society IUA/IBEC 30 November
2005
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Contents

• ULs History (very brief)
• Industry Business Interaction
• Examples of Success
• The ISERC CSET
• Career and Salary Issues
• Structural Issues
• Summary

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National Technological Park

• Established 1984 by
• Shannon Development
• University of Limerick
• Local agencies
• Home to 90 organisations
• Multinationals, RD entities, Irish tech.
  Companies, Campus Companies
• Innovation centre

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Industry Business Interaction

• Cooperative education and graduate placement.
• Lifelong Learning/Executive education.
• Industrial Research Policy
• Spin-Offs and FDI

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Co-operative Education

• Some 2,000 placements per year
• Employer contribution of 19m p.a.
• Network over 1,400 employer organisations.
• 35 placements are international
• 700 employers visit the campus annually
• First point of contact with the University
  acquire and develop company intelligence.

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Life-Long Learning and Executive Education

• AUA (Atlantic University Alliance) Industry
  Education
• MSc In Technology Management by Distance Learning
• First tri-University Degree in Ireland UL,
  NUIG, UCC
• Product innovation, technology transfer, RD
  processes, organisation process improvement,
  Leadership and Change Management
• Indigenous FDI Companies
• Approx 40 Students per cohort currently in 3rd
  Year

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Life-Long Learning and Executive Education

• ICBE Irish Centre for Business Excellence
• The ICBE acts as a central information resource
  from which organisations gain knowledge, advice
  and support
• Learning is facilitated through direct contact
  between member companies and through the sharing
  of best practices and benchmarking
• SNS Supply Network Shannon
• An Industry-led initiative aimed at Representing,
  Promoting, Developing and Connecting Together
  Sub-Supply companies in the Shannon Region

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Industrial Research Policy

• Focus on supporting development of a high tech
  indigenous sector.
• Use of collaboration and mentor initiatives, TTI.
• Research and IP licensing
• Anchor current and future FDI.
• research and IP licensing
• Develop new high potential start-ups (HPSU).
• Use campus company formations as preferred method
  of commercialisation, over licensing.

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Spin-offs and FDI Some Examples

• Piercom (Software Re-engineering Tools
  Services)
• Arose from EU Funded Project (REDO) 89-94
• Spun-off in 93 3 rounds of VC up to 99
• Peaked at 45 employees
• MBO and restructuring result in small, refocused
  company
• QAD (FDI Californian ERP Software Supplier)
• Attracted by Research (especially REDO Piercom)
  in 97
• Established Software RD for EMEA on Natl. Tech.
  Park
• Continuing research relationship with UL
• Partner in ISERC in 05

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• Research spin-off from the Stokes Research
  Institute at University of Limerick.
• 1 million in venture capital funding (Kernel
  Capital) September 05.
• New cancer diagnostic equipment, based on
  analysis of the human genome.
• Micro-fluidic Analysis System for cancer
  diagnosis.

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• Based on work carried out in the Interaction
  Design Centre at the University of Limerick
  (pre-incorporation stage).
• Control digital parameters in multimedia
  applications with breath.
• DAM (Domestic Asthma Management) games
• Targeting youth market using mobile
  telecommunication.

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Aughinish Alumina Relationship

• To Date
• Aughinish initiated - mid 2001
• Needs driven from outset
• Project Based clear goals and outputs.
• Benefited from PRTLI Investment MSSI.
• Use of Standard Draft Agreements.
• Clear communications - Steering Committee.
• 5.2m investment - October 2003

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Irish Software Engineering Research Centre

• SFI funded CSET 11.7m
• Involving researchers from
• University of Limerick
• Dublin City University
• Trinity College Dublin
• University College Dublin

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ISERC's Mission

• To advance the state-of-the-art in strategic
  software engineering for specific application
  domains
• ISERC will
• produce domain focused, world class research
• of industrial relevance
• that gives Ireland Inc the maximum competitive
  advantage
• Involves researchers moving between universities
  and industry

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Industrial Partners

• Aimware
• Analog Devices (I)
• Ashling Microsystems
• Beaumont Hospital
• Robert Bosch GmbH
• IBM Ireland
• Iona Technologies plc

• Intel Ireland Ltd
• Kugler Maag cie
• Motorola Ireland
• Piercom
• QAD Ireland Ltd
• Silicon Software Systems
• eVolve Systems

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Career and Salary Issues

• Grade6 Admin recent graduate 33k 45k
• University Lecturer (IoT higher!) 47k- 76k
• Technician recent grad 34k 43k
• PostDoc recent PhD 35k 50k
• Research Fellow PhD Significant Achievement
  Independent Researcher 58k 73k
• Not to mention permanency, pension etc.

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Structural Issues

• Value attached to experience
• Of industry by academia
• Of academic by industry
• Limited long-term research until recently
• One example Barry Macken
• First Head of Electronics at NIHE Limerick 75
• World-wide Head of Quality Analog Devices 95
• First Director of (Academic) Quality UL 00

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Summary

• At UL
• Industrial Collaboration is well established
• Experience has been overwhelmingly positive
• Academia and Industry mutually benefit
• But obstacles remain to careering further
• Must have a well-paid research career structure
• Need clear and flexible incentive systems
• Must have broader scorecard for advancement
• Weve only just begun..

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BRENDAN CREMEN
Director of Engineering, Xilinx
Opportunities for Post Graduates in the Irish
Electronics Industry
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Post Graduate Opportunities in Irish Electronics
Brendan Cremen Director of Engineering Xilinx
Ireland November 2005
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Semiconductor Market Size (End Market) by
iSuppli (CAGR 2004 - 2009 8)
Source iSuppli, Last Updated Q3 2005, Next
scheduled update Q1 2006
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Consumers Currently Represent the Largest
Segment of the Semiconductor Industry
Source SIA and Morgan Stanley Research
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Market Segments that offer High Growth
Large Future Markets
High Growth Markets
gt3Bn in 2009 Semiconductor Content
gt10 2004 to 2009 CAGR
Computing Desktop PCs Enterprise Servers Hard
Disk Drives DRAM Modules Wired LAN
Switches Wireless Mobile Handsets Digital
Cordless Phones Consumer Home Audio Color
TVs Digital Settop Boxes Digital Still
Cameras Auto Entertainment Power
Train Industrial Medical Electronics Manufacturing
Automation Semi Manufacturing Security
Systems Military Civil Aerospace
Computing PDAs Wired Routers SAN Switches SAN
HBAs xDSL DSLAM Optical WAN Wireless Wireless
Broadband Wireless LAN Auto Safety and
Control Telematics Body Electronics Sensors
Computing Laptop PCs PC Servers Flat Panel
Displays Wired Digital WAN Wireless Mobile Comm
Infrastructure Other Mobile Communications
Consumer MP3 Players Digital TVs DVD
Recorders Video Game Controllers Flash
Storage Consumer Appliances
Source iSuppli and Morgan Stanley Research
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US Industry Employment Growth2002-2012
Source US Dept of Labor, Bureau of Labor Stats
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Necessary success factors

• Knowledge
• Seed and venture capital business angels
• Hosting infrastructure
• Entrepreneurial environment
• Constructive risk approach
• Training/education infrastructure and programs
• Inbound Marketing
• Attractive reward systems
• Theme driven clusters of companies

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Close the Loop Fuel the Engine

• Only the right combination of ALL elements can
  foster a successful regional development, based
  upon an increasingly knowledge based society
• Government provides the initial fuel

Knowledge creation
Infrastructure
Training / Education
Venture capital
Entrepreneurship
Market knowledge
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Research Pipeline
Research Programme
Industry Transfer Projects
Industry product development
Latency ?Throughput Hence long term
relationships necessary
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Belgium Observation

• Phase 1 Competence
• Define goals
• Build critical mass
• Establish presence
• Phase 2 Credibility
• Recognition externally
• Collaboration with other globally recognised
  leaders
• Phase 3 Create Wealth
• Spins-offs
• Leverage for SME MNC

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Requirement for Industry

• Quality of personnel
• Quality of research

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Belgium Observation

• Phase 1 Competence
• Define goals
• Build critical mass
• Establish presence
• Phase 2 Credibility
• Recognition externally
• Collaboration with other globally recognised
  leaders
• Phase 3 Create Wealth
• Spins-offs
• Leverage for SME MNC

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Competition
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Semiconductor

• 29 IC Design Companies
• Infineon, Oki, Broadcom, Marvell, etc.
• 17 Assembly Test Companies
• AMD, Linear Tech, Micron, ISE Labs,
• 14 Wafer Fabs
• Includes latest US 3.6B UMC-Infineon 300mm
• Subcon Services
• burn-in, failure analysis labs, etc.
• Others
• Dupont Photomasks to invest US 50-70M over the
  next 5 years

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In the past scientists saw the pursuit of money
as intellectually uninteresting. To do research
for industry was only for those who couldnt get
a university appointment
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Post Graduate Opportunities in Irish Electronics
Brendan Cremen Director of Engineering Xilinx
Ireland November 2005
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Semiconductor Market Size (End Market) by
iSuppli (CAGR 2004 - 2009 8)
Source iSuppli, Last Updated Q3 2005, Next
scheduled update Q1 2006
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Consumers Currently Represent the Largest
Segment of the Semiconductor Industry
Source SIA and Morgan Stanley Research
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Market Segments that offer High Growth
Large Future Markets
High Growth Markets
gt3Bn in 2009 Semiconductor Content
gt10 2004 to 2009 CAGR
Computing Desktop PCs Enterprise Servers Hard
Disk Drives DRAM Modules Wired LAN
Switches Wireless Mobile Handsets Digital
Cordless Phones Consumer Home Audio Color
TVs Digital Settop Boxes Digital Still
Cameras Auto Entertainment Power
Train Industrial Medical Electronics Manufacturing
Automation Semi Manufacturing Security
Systems Military Civil Aerospace
Computing PDAs Wired Routers SAN Switches SAN
HBAs xDSL DSLAM Optical WAN Wireless Wireless
Broadband Wireless LAN Auto Safety and
Control Telematics Body Electronics Sensors
Computing Laptop PCs PC Servers Flat Panel
Displays Wired Digital WAN Wireless Mobile Comm
Infrastructure Other Mobile Communications
Consumer MP3 Players Digital TVs DVD
Recorders Video Game Controllers Flash
Storage Consumer Appliances
Source iSuppli and Morgan Stanley Research
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US Industry Employment Growth2002-2012
Source US Dept of Labor, Bureau of Labor Stats
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Necessary success factors

• Knowledge
• Seed and venture capital business angels
• Hosting infrastructure
• Entrepreneurial environment
• Constructive risk approach
• Training/education infrastructure and programs
• Inbound Marketing
• Attractive reward systems
• Theme driven clusters of companies

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Close the Loop Fuel the Engine

• Only the right combination of ALL elements can
  foster a successful regional development, based
  upon an increasingly knowledge based society
• Government provides the initial fuel

Knowledge creation
Infrastructure
Training / Education
Venture capital
Entrepreneurship
Market knowledge
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Research Pipeline
Research Programme
Industry Transfer Projects
Industry product development
Latency ?Throughput Hence long term
relationships necessary
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Belgium Observation

• Phase 1 Competence
• Define goals
• Build critical mass
• Establish presence
• Phase 2 Credibility
• Recognition externally
• Collaboration with other globally recognised
  leaders
• Phase 3 Create Wealth
• Spins-offs
• Leverage for SME MNC

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Requirement for Industry

• Quality of personnel
• Quality of research

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Belgium Observation

• Phase 1 Competence
• Define goals
• Build critical mass
• Establish presence
• Phase 2 Credibility
• Recognition externally
• Collaboration with other globally recognised
  leaders
• Phase 3 Create Wealth
• Spins-offs
• Leverage for SME MNC

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Competition
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Semiconductor

• 29 IC Design Companies
• Infineon, Oki, Broadcom, Marvell, etc.
• 17 Assembly Test Companies
• AMD, Linear Tech, Micron, ISE Labs,
• 14 Wafer Fabs
• Includes latest US 3.6B UMC-Infineon 300mm
• Subcon Services
• burn-in, failure analysis labs, etc.
• Others
• Dupont Photomasks to invest US 50-70M over the
  next 5 years

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In the past scientists saw the pursuit of money
as intellectually uninteresting. To do research
for industry was only for those who couldnt get
a university appointment
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DR. COLM HARMON
Director, Geary Institute, UCD
Industry/Academia Relationships A Social
Science Perspective
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Industry-Academia Relationships

• A View from the Social Sciences

Professor Colm Harmon Director, UCD Geary
Institute
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KEY MESSAGES

• Question Is the intersection between academic
  excellence and excellence in design (and
  evaluation) of economic and social policy is not
  as developed as it should be?
• Potential 'timebomb
• The norm is increasingly doctoral level training
  in key areas of private and public sector
  employment in the US and Europe
• Valuing these researchers and embedding them into
  the Irish (and European) knowledge economy is
  essential.
• Industry can play a role in dealing with the
  challenges.

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ACADEMIA PUBLIC POLICY A VIEW

• Perception?
• Interaction between policy and academia is not as
  well developed in Ireland
• If true, not solely responsibility of academic
  community
• Neither the supply or demand for research input
  into policy design processes is adequate.
• This removes a key voice from the policy debate
  but more importantly means that the taxpayer may
  not be getting the value added from their
  investments made in ventures such as PRTLI.
• We need to
• Improve the supply side
• Engage with major groups to change the demand
  for academic research

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OTHER VIEWS.!

• There was a time, when those who had an interest
  in policy making, would be given the same
  warning, as people who like sausages don't look
  too closely at how they are made. An Taoiseach,
  Bertie Ahern TD, February 2005.

Social science should be at the heart of
policymaking. We need a revolution in relations
between government and the social research
community we need social scientists to help
determine what works and why, and what types of
policy initiatives are likely to be the most
effective. UK Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC) seminar in February 2002.
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KEY CHALLENGES

• Technology transfer understood as a concept to
  drive ongoing economic development.
• We must capture the same concept for the social
  sciences
• Replace patents with policy in key arguments.
• Recent NESF/Geary Institute Conference in UCD -
  pressure points
• Policy needs often inconsistent with academic
  processes (feasibility, short time lines etc)
• Pressure on researchers to obtain the desired
  result
• Academic researchers often weak at communicating
  findings in ways meaningful to policymakers.

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UCD GEARY INSTITUTE
Education Labour Market
Corporate
Law Society
Innovation RD
Health
Research Community Senior and Junior
Research Infrastructure Data Archive IT
Informatics

• Graduate Training
• - PhD
• Masters in Public Policy?

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TARGET AUDIENCES
Senior government officials
Members of Oireachtas
Cabinet
KEY AUDIENCES
State agencies
Commentariat
Industry Leaders
Political advisory structures
Key media
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FEEDING THIS FORWARD LABOUR MARKET

• Graduate Training
• Innovative ways that parallel natural sciences
• Why?
• Create a cadre of social science professionals
• Multi-skilled, adaptable and innovative
  researchers who can approach problems from
  multiple perspectives
• Better trained in methods than ever before
• Equipped to map their training to application
• Equipped to translate their ideas for media,
  non-specialists
• Implications for policy development are immense
• More analytical sophistication and better
  joined-up thinking
• More imagination and more empathy for wider
  views.

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THE CHANGING SCENE

• Major human capital investments
• Postdoctoral researchers
• Visiting scholars
• Visiting Doctoral Researchers
• Research Programmes as Labs
• Frontier methods of economic, social and legal
  investigation
• Disciplines interact and challenge each other
  through joint projects, seminars and conferences
• Promote interaction with society through
  engagement with business, the professions,
  government and the wider community founded on the
  credibility of the peer reviewed research process
• Central role in training
• Early Stage Training (EST) model
• Post Masters formal training period
• Apprentice model for the research period

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An exampleSuccessful ageing
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National Context -

• Ireland has Europes youngest but most rapidly
  ageing population
• Economic reality
• Unique opportunity
• Differences in social connections between urban
  and rural areas although isolation a problem
  throughout
• 41 of those living alone in the population are
  over 65,
• 20 are over 80, 25 of over 65s live alone
• Little evidence of planning for this reality?
• 86 of over 65s owner occupiers, 4 rent, 7
  social housing
• Policy is directed at care in the community -
  about 13000 in permanent residential care (less
  than 3)

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Research to Address the Issues

• Research
• SHARE-IRELAND
• Peer reviewed research investment (IRCHSS, EU)
• Multidisciplinary team
• Policy
• Government is accessible
• Health service reforms are on agenda
• Pension process under reform (PRSAs)
• Housing policy and housing equity
• Practice
• Multiple agencies
• Role for proposal to act as a hub to this
  community in terms of information, advocacy and
  delivery.

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A ROLE FOR INDUSTRY?

• Impact of the social science research agenda
  requires investment.
• However the role of industry in funding this work
  is not as developed as with other fields of
  research
• Concerns
• Industry needs (profit!) inconsistent with
  independence.
• Areas of research in the social sciences are
  sensitive
• Can you separate research from sponsorship?
• Can we get around these issues?
• YES! Dynamics of Drinking Behaviour
• Diageo Ireland
• Multidisciplinary team
• Investment from Diageo as seed capital for
  broader work.

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Key Blocks for Industry Partnerships
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PANEL DISCUSSION
Prof. Kevin Ryan ISERC, UL Brendan Cremen -
Xilinx Colm Harmon Geary Institute, UCD
Chaired by Dr Conor OCarroll, Head of
Research Office, IUA
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BRENDAN BUTLER
Director, IBEC
Closing Comments
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CAREERING TOWARDS THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
Are business Academia geared up to provide a
future for high level researchers in Ireland?
Lunch Top Floor Foyer