commercialising creativity

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• commercialising creativity
• Margaret Whelan
• Head of Industry Development, DIT
• Innovation, Design and Intellectual Property
  Commercialisation Seminar
• September 21st, 2005

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Ireland Inc. - The need for IP commercialisation
Enterprise Strategy Group Report, July 2004
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Ireland Inc. and innovation
The gap between the US and the EU can be largely
explained by 3 indicators Patents (50 of the
gap) Working population with tertiary education
(26 ) RD expenditures (11) mainly business
RD
Innovation Scorecard, 2004
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"PJD are proud to have their toys certified as
asthma friendly. We get a lot of questions from
Mother's asking our products suitable. We also
knew we made excellent quality toys now we have
the asthma friendly symbol to prove it. We see
this as something all quality soft toys will have
in the future." Doug Pike CEO of PJD Creations
Sears-O-Pedic Asthma Friendly 'Gold'
Synthetic-fill Pillow
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Company news

• April 21, 2005 - Press Release - Magnetic
  Solutions MRT Tools Ordered for TFH Production
• April 20, 2005 - Press Release - Magnetic
  Solutions Selected for MRAM High Field Annealing
  
• March 22, 2005 - Press Release - Magnetic
  Solutions Announces 300mm High Field Anneal
  Service
• Nov 03, 2004 - Press Release - Magnetic Solutions
  Announces Investment Plans To Commence A Roll Out
  Of 300mm Tools For MRAM Production
• Feb 25, 2004 - Magnetic Solutions MRT Technology
  Wins for Taiwanese MRAM
• Jan 21, 2004 - Magnetic Solutions Successfully
  Raises 4m for MRAM Production
• July 15, 2003 - Magnetic Solutions MRAM
  partnerships continue to expand in Asia
• June 27, 2003 - NEW MRAM magnetic annealing
  system from Magnetic Solutions has double the
  throughput of existing technology
• January 14, 2003 - Magnetic Solutions invests 4
  million in MRAM development program
• August 26, 2002 - Magnetic Solutions secures
  order from leading Japanese Semiconductor Company
  
• July 15, 2002 - Magnetic Solutions appoints North
  American Customer Service Manager

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DITME
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CNRI
The Communications Network Research Institute
(CNRI) is an institute of the Dublin Institute of
Technology (DIT). It was founded in July 2001 to
perform pure and applied research in all aspects
of communications networks. It is currently the
home of a Science Foundation Ireland cluster
research project into resource allocation in
wireless networks.
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• RD support
• Student projects
• collaborative projects (Innovation Partnership
  scheme, etc.)
• commissioned/sponsored work
• Technology Transfer
• secret know-how
• licence agreements etc.
• Start-up incubation support
• Hothouse Incubation programme
• Fast Growth programme