The entrepreneurial eco-system, the southeast region, opportunities from Internet of Things

Start-up Island 2020 Forum

Professor Willie DonnellyPresident, WIT

Chair TSSG

6st October 2015

A 20 year journey

Starting Here 1997

A 20 year journey

Through Here

A 20 year journey

And back again

A 20 year journey

Through Here

CONNECTINGEUROPE WITH THE WORLDTSSG – INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

Drive regional economic development through our global reputation for teaching research and innovation

excellence

Creating Impact – 10 Years On

“Waterford is a shining example of how co-locating the incubation centre with the institute has led to the establishment of a software industry that probably should not have existed in Waterford.

Unlike the normal impacts of business around there, this industry has been driven from the educational facility. Also in Waterford one sees the flow of graduates and researchers into local industry and start-ups”.  

(Mr. Gearóid Mooney, Director of ICT Commercialisation, Enterprise  Ireland, Committee of Public Accounts Debate, 31 January 2013.)

 

Regional Impact – ArcLabs, a unique environment for innovation & enterprise

Regional hub for research, innovation & enterprise development

Centre opened in Kilkenny – ICT Agriculture

84 of the businesses supported by WIT Enterprise Platform Programme in the past 6 years currently have a combined turnover of €29 million, with €8.5 million in export sales, and have generated 249 jobs in this period.

20 companies based in Arclabs employing 120+

600 jobs created in region Connected to over 300 companies in

Europe and US

Research Entrepreneurship

Graduate studies Internationalisation

ArclabsInternational Collaboration

4th level training

Knowledge Transfer

Regional Development

MultinationalCorporations

Industry led graduate degrees

Regional Open Innovation Ecosystem

Education

State Funding

& Policy

ResearchIndustry

&Investment

CULTURE GOVERNANCE

INFRASTUCTURE

ENVIRONMENT

CONNECTEDNESS

Bill O Gorman & Willie Donnelly

Precision Agriculture

And back again

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Sensor devices are becoming widely available

- Programmable devices- Off-the-shelf gadgets/tools

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“Thing” connected to the internet

Image Courtesy: : CISCO

OPPORTUNIES WITH IoT

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Food Security

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Irelands competitive advantage

agri-food sector €26 billion in turnover and generating 12.3% of merchandise exports. 170,000 jobs or 9% of total employment Food and Beverage exports increased to a record value of €10 billion in 2013 representing an increase of 9% on the previous year and a 40% increase since 2009.

ICT sector 10 of the top 10 global

technology companies 9 of the 10 global software

companies 3 of the top 3 enterprise

software companies The top 10 'born on the

internet' companies 40% of our national exports

(€72 billion per annum)

SmartAgri Think Tank Kilkenny Castle 3rd Feb 2015

Sensor Comms

Sensor Design

Productivity & Sustainability of Dairy

Farming

Data Mining and Analysis

GrassProduction

Milk Production

Disease Management

Cost Management

FeedManagement

Market/Producer

Environmental Management

Smart Cooperative

Precision Farming

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Dairy-Farm of The Future

Dense IoT environment: Environmental Sensing –

Temperature, Humidity, Light intensity, CO2

Soil Sensing – Chemicals, Fertilizers, Irrigation, Moisture

Milk yield, Grass mng. Virtual fence appl. – animal

positioning Animal-health mon. Cow-centric computing or cowputing

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Existing Capabilities New Opportunities SMART AGRI

SMART GRIDSSENSOR NETWORKS

MOBILE SERVICES

CLOUDDESIGN

& UX

DATA ANALYTICS

Kilkenny

Waterford

Next Generation MobileApplication and Services

Eco-InnovationSocial InnovationGreen Tourism

Transforming the South East to a Knowledge Region

Focus on creating autonomous self sustainable entrepreneurial clusters

Embed entrepreneur culture in stakeholder organisations Identification of regional smart specialisms Identification and investment in regional leadership Creation of critical mass of networked entrepreneurial communities around

smart specialisations Integrated knowledge Infrastructure (service based) Integrated approach to service provision and investment plans for

entrepreneurial community Arclabs platform for attracting entrepreneurs and knowledge leaders to regional Integrated investment plan around cluster development over 5 years