Industry Engagement
The TSSG’s Innovation & Commercialisation Centre (TICC) mission is to help improve the competitiveness of Ireland by helping Irish industry compete in international markets. As the diagram below highlights, in fulfilling this mission, the TSSG creates both regional and national benefits.
Developing our competency in commercialising our scientific research creates employment, and our engagement in European Framework Research Programmes helps establish international industry networks in Ireland and the South East, and generates knowledge that can be effectively transferred to Irish Industry.
The TSSG has created many high-tech research jobs through its commercial work, and has also helped create jobs within the spin out companies it has created. Additionally, TSSG has attracted many expatriates to return to Ireland, and have inspired the best and brightest global foreign nationals to live and work in Ireland.
Company Spin-Out: FEEDHENRY - The award winning FeedHenry platform leverages significant TSSG researched knowledge. FeedHenry provides a cloud computing enterprise mobility platform. Read the full case study about the award winning Spin Out, FeedHenry, here.
Company Spin-In: ZolkC – Founded in 2006, ZolkC is a commercial spin in company from TSSG. ZolkC provides hand held technology solutions to tourism and heritage sites which enables the delivery of novel interactive visitor experiences using mobile technology. Read the full case study about the award winning Spin In ZolkC here.
Public Spaces: “Public spaces” enables industry to engage with each other to debate future trends, key research and market developments. The IMS-ARCS project is an example of a “public space”. IMS-ARCS succeeded in educating, informing and enabling twenty-six Irish companies to engage in a cluster around the topic of IMS services. Read more here.
Technology Licensing: Technology Licensing in WIT is managed through the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) . It is the TTO that licenses research outputs. In addition TSSG develops service frameworks and technologies independent of partner companies, TSSG works hand-in-hand with the TTO to identify opportunities to license these frameworks to Irish industry or to Irish entrepreneurs to help create new start-ups.
TSSG’s Innovation & Commercialisation Centre also provides a number of services to Irish industry, some in partnership with Enterprise Ireland, which enables industry to leverage the Centre’s innovation and commercialisation programmes which help improve competitiveness.
These services are outlined below.
OUTREACH
| Activity | Description |
| Industry Consultation Works | The Centre ran two industry Consultation events on the 18th of January 2011 in Waterford and the 19th of January in Dublin. These workshops presented the Centre’s work programme for 2011-2014 in an accessible way to industry, to obtain feedback and requirements. Going forward the Centre plans to run one industry workshop per quarter. Each workshop will be focused on a specific strand of the Centre’s work programme. These workshops will provide a “deep dive” into the research and results of the particular strand, with the purpose of briefing a focused industry group, creating a debate, capturing feedback and creating a pipeline of new project opportunities. Find out when the next event will take place and register your attendance here. |
| Promotional Events | The Centre participates in regular promotional events such as the Enterprise Ireland yearly Applied Research forum. In addition the Centre run’s specific project or services promotional events such as NGN Test Centre Launch event in the Guinness StoreHouse, which had over 70 companies attend. The Centre also promotes the work of the TSSG at local conferences in ArcLabs such as BizCamp a major South-East business conference organised by ArcLabs. Find out the next promotional event here. |
| News & Press | The Centre publishes regular news (link to news section), press (link to press page) and industry analysis (link to industry analysis page). For more information please contact marketing@tssg.org |
| Case Studies | The Centre has produced a number of case studies of its work on Innovation Partners and innovation vouchers programmes – for more information please contact marketing@tssg.org |
| Eletter | The Centre publishes a regular eLetter to provide industry with up to date information on the research programme, industry collaborations and new projects starting. To subscribe to this eLetter please register your e-mail address here marketing@tssg.org. |
| Radio, TV, Video | Centre staff have participated in a number of radio interviews to dateThe Centre also regularly uploads key information videos through social channels such as YouTube and Vimeo. Also the Centre puts its public presentations on Slideshare |
| ARE Cluster | The Centre participates in a cluster of other commercialisation centres in Ireland through the Enterprise Ireland ARE Programme. For more information on these Centres please select the following link |
| Conferences | The Centre regularly exhibits at Mobile World Congress, the largest telecoms commercial conference and exhibition in the world, held yearly in February in Barcelona with normally around 50 thousand attendees. The Centre normally attends to support one or more of its industry partners. Mobile World Congress See other up coming conferences and events that TSSG is running or attending. |
| Social Media | The Centre engages in a comprehensive social media outreach programme to better communicate and obtain feedback from industry. It established a Linkedin group, where questions / requirements can be put forward by industry and where Industry can connect with the Centre. In addition, all press and news is broadcast through Linkedin, Twitter and facebook. Furthermore, the Centre videos as many events as possible and puts these online on YouTube and Vimeo. The Centre also uses social media tools such as SlideShare to put non-confidential presentations online. |
