Leading, Inspiring, Delivering

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Leading, Inspiring, Delivering
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MATRIX
EDF
Rewards from Research (RfR)
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RfR
TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL
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Deploy - Refine
Adapt - Validate
Discover - Understand
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RfR
Deploy - Refine
Adapt - Validate
Discover - Understand
INVENT
INNOVATE
IMPROVE
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RfR
INVENT
INNOVATE
IMPROVE
INVEST
10yrs
5yrs
2yrs

• Invest in transformation funds (technology pull)
• Invest in Competence Centres (technology push)

• Invest in KTP
• Invest in Compete Start
• Invest in awareness raising

• Invest in sustainable research infrastructure

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Framework conditions
Action
Leadership
Investment Vehicles
HEIF, ERDF, Innovation Fund
Northern Ireland
Awareness Raising
ERDF, Innovation Fund
Competence and Innovation Centres
Northern Ireland
TSB, EPSRC (SI, DTC), EIT-KIC
Capacity and Capability Building
UK
ERDF, Innovation Fund
Transformation Funds
Northern Ireland
Research Infrastructure
University investment, Innovation Fund
Universities
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Actions
Action
University led initiatives
Awareness Raising

• Building industry clusters
• Promoting product and process improvement and
  innovation
• Encouraging participation in KTP etc.
• Selling the benefits of RD

Competence and Innovation Centres
Capacity and Capability Building
Transformation Funds
Research Infrastructure
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Actions
Action
Industry led initiatives

• Building collaborative open systems and
  supply chains
• Identifying and responding to skill needs
• Cooperation in generic research
• Linking to EU regional networks and KTNs
• Supporting participation in FP7 and TSB contracts

Awareness Raising
Competence and Innovation Centres
Capacity and Capability Building
Transformation Funds
Research Infrastructure
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Actions
Action
IndustryUniversity Partnerships leveraging
funds from RDAs/DAs, TSB, Research Councils
Awareness Raising

• Innovation Knowledge Centres
• Doctoral Training Centres
• EU EIT Knowledge Innovation
  Communities
• Regional initiatives including support for
  threatened subjects

Competence and Innovation Centres
Capacity and Capability Building
Transformation Funds
Research Infrastructure
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Actions
Action
Support for industrial innovation partnerships
and reduce the risk threshold
Awareness Raising
Competence and Innovation Centres

• EU demonstration programmes e.g. Life
• National, Strategic Initiatives
• Regional Programmes e.g. Broadband

Capacity and Capability Building
Transformation Funds
Research Infrastructure
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Actions
Action
Awareness Raising

• Investment requires long term perspective
  and commitment
• Needs to be an integral part of the
  Universitys Corporate Plan
• Can support the attraction and retention
  of FDI

Competence and Innovation Centres
Capacity and Capability Building
Transformation Funds
Research Infrastructure
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Matrix Panels
Advanced Engineering (Transport)
Advanced Materials
ICT
Life Health Sciences
Agrifood
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Actions and Investments
Innovate (5 yrs)
Invent (10 yrs)
Improve (2 yrs)
Environmental Technologies cluster
development Polymer Processing cluster
development
Green Chemistry DTC, IKC and KIC Environmental
Technologies Competence Centre Polymer
Processing Competence Centre Chemometrics (SI
proposal)
Green Chemistry Plasma Physics building on
earlier SI award Materials for the
future Scientific Instrumentation (building on
SI proposal)
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Actions
Innovate (5 yrs)
Invent (10 yrs)
Improve (2 yrs)
Digital Engineering initiative
Technology centre (Bombardier) Advanced
Manufacturing and Design Competence Centre
Advanced Composites incorporated in Materials for
the Future
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Actions
Innovate (5 yrs)
Invent (10 yrs)
Improve (2 yrs)
Mobile Communications initiative Render Farm
initiative HPC and Tradable Services Initiative
Secure Communications IKC HPC and Tradable
Services (Transformation Fund) Software
Capability and Competence Centre DTCs - HPC and
Digital Economy Creative Industries Competence
Centre
HPC (Inc SI proposal and Infrastructure) Financi
al Services Research Centre Digital
Hospital Digital Media Research Centre Mobile
and Secure Communications
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Actions
Innovate (5 yrs)
Invent (10 yrs)
Improve (2 yrs)
Connected Health initiative NI Virtual Tissue
Archive
Software for Health (Transformation Fund) Centre
for Health Improvement Synthetic Biology (SI
proposal)
Experimental Medicine Cancer Therapeutics
including medicinal chemistry Digital Hospital
including Imaging and Biomedical
informatics Regenerative Medicine
Synthetic Biology building on SI proposal
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Actions
Innovate (5 yrs)
Invent (10 yrs)
Improve (2 yrs)
Questor environmental technologies cluster
development Quercus biodiversity initiative
Rural Sustainability (Transformation
Fund) Agri-food Competence Centre Environmental
Technologies Competence Centre
Centre for Food Safety, Health and Traceability
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Thank you