Inventorium Newsletter Issue 1 Sept 2010

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INVENTORIUMNEWSLETTER

ISSUE 1SEPT 2010


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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

OPEN INNOVATION

INSPIRATION

EVENT REVIEWSUPCOMING EVENTS

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HELLO

Inventorium is a partnership betweenCAST Limited in Bangor, North Wales andNDRC in Dublin, supported by the EUIreland Wales Interreg IVA Programme.

The partnerships purpose is to establisha formal practical mechanism for thegeneration of new ideas leading tothe formation of new businesses andprocesses, or to contribute to sustainingexisting businesses, with a particularfocus on digital technologies for culture,education, entertainment, environment,

health, leisure, public services, tourism andtransport.

This Newsletter supports our websiteand you our readers, who come fromthe productive sectors of SMEs,entrepreneurship, local councils, regionalgoverning bodies, funding and enterpriseboards, academia, programming,engineering, and the creative and designhotbeds.

Welcome to this, our inauguralNewsletter, a reflection and

promotion of the Inventorium

project, its work, people,

and programmes.

Our aim is to keep you updated with ourwork in the target regions of South EastIreland and West Wales, promotingup-and-coming events, and disseminatingour achievements, learnings and successstories.

Regards,Inventorium Teaminventorium.org

Please contact Dr Teresa Dillon,Senior Content Manager with anycomments, thoughts or suggestionson current and future [email protected]

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With those words, Tom Tauke remindedhis audience to continue to let loose thetigers of openness and co-operation againstlimiting closed models of innovation anddevelopment. OI continues this movementand is one of the key processes underlyingInventorium.

OI starts from the idea that innovation isnot a solitary activity. Organisations andindividuals should use external as well asinternal ideas, and internal and external

paths to market, as they seek to advancetheir technology and processes. HenryChesborough, Director for the Center ofOpen Innovation coined the phrase inhis book:Open Innovation: The NewImperative for Creating and Profiting

from Technology.

The original architectsof the Internet got the big

things right. By making the

network open, they enabled

the greatest exchange of

ideas in history. By making

the Internet scalable, they

enabled explosive innovation

in the infrastructure.

OPENINNOVATION

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Tom Tauke, Verizon Executive VicePresident of Public Affairs, Policy,Google Public Policy Blog


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The key characteristics of OI revolvearound creating collaborative andconvergent business linkages, openingup new channels to market, finding andexploiting new and emerging technologiesas solutions to problems, acceleratingand improving internal and external R&Dconnections, and improving exploitation ofexisting Intellectual Property.

The Chesborough model is

illustrated to the right.

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CLOSED INNOVATIONPRINCIPLES

The smart people in the field work for us.

To profit from R&D we must discover it, develop it,and ship it ourselves.

If we discover it ourselves, we will getit to market first.

The company that gets an innovationto the market first, will win.

If we create the most and best ideasin industry, we will win.

We should control our IP so that ourcompetitors dont profit from our ideas.

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OPEN INNOVATIONPRINCIPLES

Not all the smart people in the field work for us.

We need to work with smart people inside and

outside the company.

External R&D can create significant value;

internal R&D is needed to claim some portion

of that value

We dont have to originate the research

to profit from it

Building a better business model is

better than getting to the market first .

If we make the best use of internal and

external ideas, we will win.

We should profit from others use of our IP,

and we should buy others IP whenever it

advances our business model.

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OPENINNOVATIONOI

The vehicle in Ireland and Wales foroptimising these OI characteristics isInventorium. Inventorium is a team whobring together people with opportunitiesand needs, digital solutions and know-how to create new products, systems andservices.

Large corporate structures, particularlyinternationals, have departments,subsidiaries and comparatively massivebudgets to pursue and develop new

products and services internally, within apossessive paradigm (closed innovation).

This is not possible for individuals andSMEs. Yet it is individuals and SMEs whoare inherently more innovative, focusedand fleeter of foot in assessing risk - andwho have greatest difficulty in funding,marketing and distributing their ideas andtechnologies.

Inventorium is a team who bring together people with opportunities

and needs, digital solutions and know-how

to create new products, systems and services.

Many university research groups have beenslow to optimise and exploit their intellectualcapital. Cambridge University is a goodexample of a university that has long beencommercially aware of such a symbioticrelationship, to the extent that science andtechnology parks were built around the city,attracting the likes of Sir Clive Sinclair andothers in the 1970s.

As a member of the Wales-Ireland InterregProject, the Inventorium vision is one which

draws on the growing expertise of ourtechnologically orientated small enterprisesand the expertise in our universities to fulfillthe need and demand for innovation withinour public sector and small or start-upenterprises. This vision crosses our maritimeborders to improve the life and economy ofboth regions through knowledge transferand exploitation.

The market for knowledge is growing asfast as technological developments cansupport it. The increasing availability ofskilled technicians and ideas merchantsand the growth of the venture capitalmarket, coupled with increasing capabilityand logistic prowess of external suppliersand external options for good ideas waitingto be activated, plus the potential forextraordinary rewards, are all acceleratingthe new market for knowledge. Ifbusinesses or individuals do not use their

knowledge, someone else will.

Regionally, Ireland and Wales have benefitedfrom outer and inward corporate investment;however, what can be given can be takenaway. Inventoriums vision is to help develophome-grown enterprises, that can grow toglobal and national stature or respond tolocal patterns of culture, need and choice.

A critical point for Inventorium is engagingexisting entrepreneurs and nascent new

entrepreneurs, while encouraging creativepeople, sector specialists, technologists,academics, undergraduates and researchstudents into the process.

Inventorium thus provides the frameworkin which trusted relationships are built andideas carefully nurtured. Outcomes shouldbe a revenue stream for some participants,or better service delivery for others.

A result orientation is essential for successand satisfaction for all participants.Out of such successes grow futureideas and collaborative projects.

This is a transition period. As people cometo understand and trust the power of OI

when managed by an intermediary honestbroker organisation such as Inventorium,so the concept of openness for idea growthwill spread. It will become more embeddedin corporate culture and success beyondtechnology. We would call that a win winfor everyone.

Chesborough, H. Open Innovation:

The New Imperative for Creating and

Profiting from Technology; HarvardBusiness School Press, 2003.

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INSPIRATIONOver the last few months we

have been working with several

people who have participated

in our events and engaged in

the Inventorium process andservice.

We asked four participants for

feedback on their experiences.

Sean Blanchfield, a founder of Front Square Software, currentlyacting Chief Technology Officer of Jolt Online Gaming, Dublin-based developer of browser-based games. Started first company

with friends in 2000 in final year of Trinity engineering degree.In 2003 co-founded DemonWare, to develop network middlewarefor video games such as Call of Dutyand Guitar Hero.

The company grew to about 30 people between Vancouver andDublin, becoming the dominant technology provider in the area.In 2007 DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc,massive publishers of computer games worldwide. Since 2008,Sean has been making web-based social games.

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http://www.frontsquare.com

http://utopia-game.com

http://joltonline.com

http://demonware.net

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonware

SeanBlanchfieldSoftware Engineer and Entrepreneur

What is your business and your role in it?

Starting from an idea I had as a CollegeProfessor, I built and now manage a smallsized company specialising in web-basedcomputer games.

How did you get involved in Inventorium?

I was associated with NDRC and wasintroduced to Dr Teresa Dillon, who helpedme see Inventorium as a good networkingopportunity.

In what events did you participate, and

why?

So far I have only attended the CreativeMedia workshop in Dublin, as this is mybusiness sector and is important to me tomeet fellow creative entrepreneurs.

What has your experience been, and was

the participation useful to you?

It was a useful workshop for two reasons:first it helped me work through interestingproblems; second, I was introduced to auseful business partner.

How has Inventorium supported your

business since?

Meeting useful contacts.

Would you recommend the Inventorium

process to other similarly circumstanced

people?

Yes certainly. I like to surround myself withsmart people, and this is a great way todevelop contacts and help others.


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I met Martin Owen through his website,looking for digital opportunities for classicalmusic as an art form.

In what events did you participate,

and why?

Ive attended two workshops. The first wasthe Creative Media event in Dublin, and thesecond the CAST session in Bangor. Theywere both great networking events as well.

www.ensemblecymru.co.uk


I am responsible to the trustees of VenueCymru, the main North Wales theatrecomplex in Llandudno, for running theorchestra. My role is the development ofinnovative and appealing classical musicprogrammes.



Both were useful but at this stage I cantsay they have produced tangible benefitsyet, but they have enabled the EnsembleCymru to connect with diverse and forwardthinking people. The workshops havehelped inform my own digital strategy andplanning, which has been very important forbenchmarking our current understandingagainst possibilities. As a result, I amworking on a European project with severalpartners to benefit cultural tourism in NorthWales. I am now able to communicatethe use of appropriate applications of newdigital technologies.


business since?

Not yet, it is early days in my strategicplanning.



people?

Yes but not strictly to just anyone or everyone.I would recommend Inventorium to those whoare curious, open-minded, and perhaps whowant to benchmark their own thinking.

Peryn Clement-Evans, Executive Officer and Artistic Director ofEnsemble Cymru a professional chamber orchestra in North Wales,managing an annual programme of 150 to 200 concerts, workshops

and talks a year, and promoting a legacy of works reflecting aspectsof Welsh heritage. The Ensemble recognises digital technologycan extend the reach of its activities in both live performances andlive educational workshops to isolated communities and schoolsacross rural Wales. Promotes Wales classical music heritage andcontemporary culture to an international audience, and wants todevelop an online platform plus provide educational resourcesfor schools.

PerynClement-EvansArtistic Director, Ensemble Cymru


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I was researching information on digitalinnovation in Dublin and found Inventorium.

In what events did you participate,

and why?

So far only the Creative Media workshopin Dublin. I found this to be very interesting,an area completely new to me, as werethe people I met and the support networkavailable


I run Donaldson Innovations Ltd, a smallinnovation production company I startedup in April 2010 with my partner who has abusiness background in sustainable energy(gas and electricity) in Ireland.



From the workshop and some of the peopleI met, I put together an idea which wasnot accepted at first attempt. The adviceI was given and the constructive criticismprovided were so valuable, that Ive beenable to rework and refine the idea. Theworkshop is an intense process that helpsaccelerate an idea to the next level.


business since?

Its been brilliant so far even though myfirst stab at an idea was rejected - for goodreasons which without Inventoriums help,I would not have seen.

That process is so fast and smooth;I presented my plan to an NDRC managerwho was supportive of my ideas. Thingsmay or may not happen, but the supportreceived is exemplary.



people?

Most definitely. Inventorium dont hold yourhand; they provide you with the facilities,connections and support - you obviouslydo the thinking and the work, and get therewards.

www.dandelion.biz/

www.grangegorman.ie/

Paula Byrne. Born Dublin, moved to London in her teens with80 in her pocket to pursue dreams of working in television. First

experience was BSB digital music channel The Power Station,then The Big Breakfast, and music series The Word. Co-foundedDandelion Productions providing production services to MTVEurope for 8 years, including the annual MTV Europe Music Awards,live international broadcast and web streaming for MTVi. Paulaworks closely with independent producers for broadcasters suchas BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 and live events such as MOBOs, SmashHits, The Brits and Westlife. Recently formed new Irish CompanyDandelion Innovation Limited.

PaulaByrneTV Production Manager and Producer,

music live events and documentaries.


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INSPIRATION

Our name Cauwill comes from the Gaelicword Cabhsuil which means where is?to which we applied an American phoneticsound to come up with Cauwill.


In Ireland we have a monthly networkingsystem called Open Coffee which is lessformal than most networking groups.I met Evert Bopp, an Inventorium memberat a Limerick Open Coffee Club morning,and he introduced me to a potentialbusiness customer/partner, Wales.info.


I am one of two founding directors of CauwillTechnology Ltd, a software service for thetourism industry within the hotel bookingsystem. We provide two products, PinPointswhich help people navigate to their hotel usingtheir own mobile phone satnav service, andConcierge which is a new way of providingconcierge services on the mobile phone.


My first event was the Welsh launch, andI also attended the Welsh Places andPeople Workshop mainly because I wantedto spend more time getting to know thepeople at Wales.info to build a workingrelationship with them.



Positive, really positive. Inventorium helpedme forge a strong partnership with Wales.info for their use of the PinPoints system.We are getting 600 to 700 hits daily, whichis a fantastic achievement given the shortperiod of time.


business since?

Facilitated the introduction and meetingswith Wales.info.



people?

Yes most definitely. I have already bloggedand tweeted many people.

RonanSkehillDirector of Cauwill Technology Ltd

www.cauwill.com

Its universally agreed amongst businesses in the tourism sector thatthey need a mobile strategy. Cauwill Technologies has developeda content delivery platform which enables businesses to publish

their content across all mobile devices. Cauwill has two productlines for the hotel and tourism sector: PinPoints helps peoplenavigate to a hotel using their phone, while Concierge is a newway of providing concierge services on the mobile phone. Cauwillwon the InterTradeIreland Seedcorn competition for best newemerging company in 2009 and was awarded 2nd place at the

Travel Technology Show 2010 in London. Cauwill currently providessolutions for the major Irish hotel internet booking companies. Hotelsusing the technology include Europa Hotel and the Hayfield Manor.Cauwill also has partnered with Wales.info to deploy a solution forover 7000 self-catering accommodation places in Wales.


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EVENTREVIEWSOnce the concept of Open

Innovation has been accepted

and understood, there is no

better way than to see it

in action. For this purpose,

Inventorium has produced a

series of practical workshops,

symposia and debates based

in Ireland and Wales, which are

designed on Open Innovation

principles.

Inventorium Workshops and Eventsare deliberately scaled vertically

to refine acquired knowledge,

experience and colleague

nurturing, and horizontally to

cover a broad range of business

and service areas. These will

continue throughout the three

year project term.

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Symposia & Debates

Thematically led meta

discussion and debate

platforms.

WORKOUT:

Prototype

Workshops

Help you to take your

idea further, through

practical, technical

assistance.

Commercialisation

Workshops

One-to-one

consultation

for developing your

successful business

idea and plan.

Idea Generation Workshops

Designed to help you develop and

generate strong, new ideas and elevate

your style of thinking, while networking

with like-minded people from all areas

of the community.


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Seventy people with a wide spectrumof commercial interest came from Irishacademia, broadcasting, creative design andarts organisations, education, multi-nationals,public bodies and SMEs. The professionalspeakers were drawn from National DigitalResearch Centre, Inventorium, academia andthe corporate sector.

The welcome was given by Ben Hurley, CEOof NDRC, who explained the important linksbetween NDRC and Inventorium. This isan important milestone and Im particularlypleased to speak at the launch of thisprogramme because it aligns so clearly withwhat we are trying to achieve with NDRC.

Dr Kevin Jennings, Translational ResearchLeader NDRC/Inventorium, described theInventorium processes and why they were sopowerful. He invited several people along totell their personal stories.

Andrew Parish, CEO of Wavebob Ltd,illustrated how Wavebob Ltd grew fromthe idea of an academic who was doingresearch in a specific field. What we aredoing as an Irish company is at the cuttingedge of innovation at a kind of extremeengineering level. We are a wave energytechnology company with BHAGs - Big Hairy

Audacious Goals. Ireland as a country isbeing recognised as a centre of ocean energyexpertise and excellence. This partly comesfrom the obvious fact that weve got a naturalresource off the west coast, but also lookingat the emergence of technology that is viable.He is now working on raising over20millionto take the company to the next level. Partof being innovative is recognising there areinternational markets too.

Bernie Goldbach, Lecturer at the TipperaryInstitute and Inside View blogger, spokeabout innovating at a community level. Histalk focused mainly around one significantexample of using new technologies to createnew modes of expression with the power ofsocial network to innovate, using collective andcommunity entrepreneurship at a local level.

Bernie presented the PinPoints softwaresuccess created by Ronan Skehill - coveredearlier in the Inspirational section of thisNewsletter. He called this: ...an example ofloosely joined collaborative work where youhave very talented people at the peripheryof networks. Ideas circulated around theLimerick Open Coffee Club session, andsomebody texted me something that wasexceptionally interesting, and made my phonedo something I never saw happen before.It gave me pinpoints on my phone and toldme where to go in London for a really goodtime. These things are free on your iPhone,Symbian or Android devices.

He continued using application examples ofPinPoints by the South Tipperary HeritageOfficer, Labhaoise McKenna, displaying localsignage video clips on screens of mobiledevices, and of people taking a video tour of

Tipperary.

Dr Teresa Dillon of Inventorium, summarisedthe day with: The Inventorium Teamapproach focuses on supporting people whohave really good ideas, and matching themwith other people to realise those ideas andmake them viable business solutions.

Part of being innovative

is recognising thereare international

markets too.

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INVENTORIUM

LAUNCHDUBLIN

The official launch of the Inventorium projecttook place in Spring this year, at the two key

venues of, Dublin for Ireland and Bangor forWales. The project, as detailed elsewherein this Newsletter, has a three year life-spanand will operate concurrently from bothDublin and Bangor.

The Ireland launch took place on 25thMarch 2010 in the Keg Room at theGuinness Storehouse, Dublin.


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INVENTORIUM

LAUNCHWALES

The Welsh launch took place on 20th May2010 at The Management Centre, BangorUniversity. Fifty two people attended fromthe city and from across the North Walesregion. The professional speakers weredrawn from Inventorium, academia andEntrepreneurs.

The welcome, given by Professor SianHope, Executive Director of Innovationat Bangor University, detailed the linksbetween the university and Inventorium.She explained how she saw the Inventoriuminitiative as: as a perfect example of tryingto make things happen.

Martin Owen, Inventorium, outlined theInventorium process: We make peoplethink hard about what can be done, thenmove them through the process until wehave proposals that are sufficient to standup on their own merit. Ive always beeninterested in inventions and I think one ofthe things missing is that inventors do notnecessarily have the wherewithal to turntheir ideas into enterprise. The process thattakes an invention to enterprise requires alot of conversations with a lot of differentkinds of actors. To create an environment inwhich those conversations can take place isreally the purpose of Inventorium.

Karen Padmore, CEO, CAST Limited,told the audience about: The new PontioProject, a world class arts and innovationcentre set in the heart of Bangor. It willfocus on how we innovate at universitiesand engage more with SMEs and how bestto develop entrepreneurial skills within ourundergraduates.

Graham Brown Martin, CEO, LearningWithout Frontiers, opened with thepolitical reality that: ...we know cutsare coming, so we need to think aboutgrowth, about stimulating growth. He alsoreminded his audience that Learning andentrepreneurship are linked, especially thenotion of failure, there is a lot of pressureto succeed and we dont see the benefit offailure, yet failure is where the learning reallyhappens.

Delegates from both venues agreed thattheir time spent had been very useful andwas a valuable first step on a new journeyof experience and commercial co-operation.

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We make people think hard about what

can be done, then move them through the

process until we have proposals that are

sufficient to stand up on their own merit.


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PLACE &

PEOPLE

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Can we make it easier to source local

products and services? Are there new

ways to give just-in-time information about

a travellers destination? What are the

implications of having consistent and accurate

information about our place? These are just

some of the concepts discussed at

Place and People the first Inventorium

symposium held in Bangor, North Waleson 21st May 2010.

The theme provided a good starting pointfor Inventorium since much of our targetregions in South East Ireland and West

Wales are rural, and therefore raises aninteresting and practical set of questionsrelating to locality, lifestyle and work. Theaccelerating demand for smart phonesand apps points at two factors: a marketdemanding increasingly sophisticatedleisure technology, and almost unlimitedpotential to satisfy that market. This is justone sector that Inventorium is addressing.It provides disruption to existing waysof doing business, and thus providingopportunities for new business productsand services.

Over 60 creative thinkers drawn from thescience, art, tourism, culture and businesssectors were asked to imagine what new

products and services (where people andtechnology interact), could help improvetheir business and address their needs. IoloWilliams from the Arts Council Wales, said:I thought it was an excellent start to whatis a very exciting programme spanning threeyears. I think the biggest strength for me isthat it represents such a wide cross sectionof society.


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PLACE &

PEOPLE

The first part of the session encourageddiversity of thinking about locationtechnology, through images of the future,this required deconstructing traditional ideasand services. A good example is a medicalcentre where the questioning and diagnosiscomes to the patient at their own homeinstead of at a doctors surgery. The thinking

pressure was then turned up a few notchesas people had to consider Utopian andDystopian extremes as a means of thinkingoutside the box. This intellectual processallowed participants to consider othersviews, ideas and attitudes against their own,and see both the worst case and best casepotential outcomes. Examples given were:-Google enabled toys, smart surfaces,augmented reality glasses, and a hoodysgathering in a WiFi enabled village. MartinOwen of Inventorium was enthusiastic:I heard many people remark that the joyof the day was that it was cross sector.

Participants were then invited to developsome more ideas with their colleaguesaround a table, focusing on potential newgoods and services, which when collatedand re-examined, will form the basis offuture intensive workshops.

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Twenty seven participants: academics, artfestival directors, broadcasters, computerscientists, engineers, entrepreneurs,

producers, record producers, sound andvisual artists were drawn from a wide varietyof backgrounds of culture, entertainmentand media art.

The first phase was a four-hour eveningsession, designed to stimulate new thinking.Four Idea Space presentations were givenby four on-the-ground practitioners, eachgiving their perspective on key issues andopportunities:

John Hunt - Director of operations, RT.

Nicky Gogan - Producer/Director,Still Films and Darklight Festival.

Sean Blanchfield - CEO of Font Squareand Jolt Games.

Gary Leyden - CEO of VRising.

Participants were divided into four teamsand given one of four Idea Space areas tobrainstorm, focusing on what they coulddevelop in that particular area. Each teamthen gave a presentation of their responseand solution to the rest of the workshop.

EVENTREVIEWS

CREATIVE

MEDIA

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This was Irelands first workshop,

a two-day event focusing on

Creative Media, held on

27-28 May 2010 at the

NDRC in Crane Street, Dublin.


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EVENTREVIEWS

CREATIVE

MEDIA

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The second phase started a very full day, withteams picking up the ideas from the previousevening, working them as far as they could

go. A full panoply of visual aid tools wereused to the max. White boards with large flowdiagrams, what if? branches, and colourfulmind-map curves, all elaborated at junctionswith luminous coloured Post-It notes,as teams considered their product name orservice, market, branding, costs, identificationof developmental or logistic problems,and then their solution. Encouraged by theirexperienced practitioners and Inventoriumstaff, participants worked in a steam-roomof ideas, self-challenges and new found

creativity, to produce their practical, potentiallyprofitable outcomes or idea still-births.

In the third phase, teams worked togetherto select two particularly good ideas forpassing on to another team to work on

further. Then, like pass the parcel, teamspassed the two refined ideas on to anotherteam, from which one idea was selected,critiqued, and developed into a visualisationsuch as a storyboard or mock-up. This wasthen passed for the final time to a team whodeveloped the business pitch for presentationto the whole group.

Many participants were interviewed at thetime, for comments and feedback on theworkshop. Andy Goodman of Inventorium

said: This was a very productive workshop;particularly important was the passing on ofideas. Peryn Clement-Evans Artistic Directorof Ensemble Cymru thought: This has givenme a unique opportunity to meet people fromright across the creative industries.

The last day and a half has been an

extraordinary brainstorming of ideas

generating new concepts, some of which

are incredibly marketable. There are people

here from all kinds of backgrounds, different

skills and different abilities, all of whom have

a great technical knowledge of the digitalspace and this is where enormous potential

exists to create new innovation.Fiona Ashe, Film Director


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EVENTREVIEWS

CREATIVE

MEDIA

The Inventorium team followed up

with individuals on how to support

their ideas, some of which were

submitted to the NDRC Launchpad

programme.

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UPCOMINGEVENTSOver the three year project

life-cycle, Inventorium will be

holding regular and varied

workshops, in both Ireland and

Wales. The following Workshops

are now being marketed.

For full details on each event

and to register, go to:

www.inventorium.org/events

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The Long Debate

The Future of Tourism Workshop

Mobile Apps Workshop

Mobile Apps Workshop

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THE LONG

DEBATEOn the 11 March 2010, An Taoiseach,Mr Brian Cowen TD launched the Reportof the Innovation Taskforce. The report setsout recommendations for developing Irelandinto an International Innovation Hub, throughdeveloping the countrys smart economy.Nine months after the release for this project

we invite members of the Taskforce, plusinvited guests to give their view on the report,its implications, successes and failures.We will be asking some hard-hittingquestions, probing what we actually meanby Innovation and how practically we canwe develop sustainable and meaningfulInnovation Ecosystems.

This debate will also offer people a uniquenetworking opportunity and will build on thedebate held on 27 Oct as part of the DublinInnovation Week Launch..

The Innovation Conversation:

The Long Debate

11th November

Venue: NDRC, 1st Floor,

Crane St, The Digital Hub, Dublin 8

As part of Dublin Innovation Week.

Register on-line at:


UPCOMINGEVENTS

We will be asking some hard-hitting

questions, probing what we actually mean

by Innovation and how practically we can

we develop sustainable and meaningful

Innovation Ecosystems.


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UPCOMINGEVENTS

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Tourism is a central economy force withinWales and Ireland, yet the form it takesis rapidly changing. As the devices inour pockets are transforming the nature

of our interactions with the places wevisit, technology is creating a new kind oftourist activity. This workshop will focus ongenerating ideas for applications, productsand services in the tourist industry.

THE FUTURE

OF TOURISMWORKSHOP

MOBILE APPS

WORKSHOPLimited to 30 delegates on a first comefirst served basis, this Inventorium team-facilitated workshop will give delegatesworking exposure to:

and Google experts.

developers.

designers.

Entertainment, Environment, Health,Tourism sectors.

the reality check team.

The workshop will suit entrepreneurs,professionals, end-users and individualsworking in Education, Entertainment,Environment, Health and Tourism.

25/26 November,

Hotel Kilkenny, Kilkenny

27/28 January, Carton House,

Maynooth, Co. Kildare



Mobile applications are emerging thatoffer exceptional opportunities to innovate,incubate and initiate powerful, popularsolutions in unheard of volumes. Apples AppStore exceeds 225,000 apps; Androids isnow over 70,000, and the forecasted marketvalue is $25 billion by 2014.


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Inventorium IRL TeamMark Kearns, Project Director

Evert Bopp, Innovation Commercialisation manager

Dr. Teresa Dillon, Senior Content ManagerInventorium, NDRC, The Digital Hub,

Crane St, Dublin 8

Tel: +353 1 542 4156

Inventorium Wales TeamJenny Dickinson, Project ManagerCaroline Thompson, Innovation

Commercialisation managerMartin Owen, Innovation Strategy

Andy Goodman, Industrial Design

Inventorium, TechniumCAST, Ffordd Penlan,Parc Menai Business Park, Bangor,

Gwynedd. LL57 4HJ

Tel: + 44 1248 675013

If you have any questions about Inventorium

or would like to view further documentationof our events, please contact:

Jenny Dickinson, Project Manager

[email protected]

www.inventorium.org

CreditsEditorial: Inventorium Team

Design/Layout: www.newgraphic.ie

Text: George PetryImages: Teresa Dillon, Tim Redfern,

Andrew Wells, Rhys Davies

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