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Dr James Callaghan
Associate Director, Research & Innovation
[email protected]
Tel: +353 1 896 1427
www.tcd.ie
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Three faculties, 24 Schools
City Centre Campus, Enterprise Campus,
Teaching Hospitals (St James and Tallaght)
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Students 11,000 under-graduate, 4,500 post-graduate
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more than 1 in 10 of our 15,500 students working towards a PhD
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Staff
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Total turnover ~€300 m (includes €100m R&D income)
2,676 employees
828 academic staff
536 researchers
Dublin City
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City centre campus
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47 acres
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Links with the Academic Teaching
Hospitals
– St James’s Hospital
– AMNCH Hospital, Tallaght
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Student accommodation
– 1000 student rooms in Trinity Hall
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Sports grounds
– Boathouse
– Field sports in Santry
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Copyright library
– 4 million books
– Maps, music,
– Manuscripts
Trinity College Campus
The Innovation Alliance –
vision and mission
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In March 2009 Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College
Dublin (UCD) launched a radical new Innovation Alliance designed to
trigger a step change in Irish job creation and a dynamic, flexible and
sustainable Smart Economy
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The vision of the institutions is the creation of an innovation
ecosystem for Ireland, with complementary interactions between
enterprise, higher education and government driving economic
recovery. Only through working in concert can the partners
realise Ireland’s innovation potential and return us to sustainable
and secure long term growth.
TCD and UCD Combined
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Approximately 50% of Ireland’s undergraduates in science, engineering and
technology
Approximately 50% of Ireland’s PhDs in science, engineering and technology
Approximately 50% of Ireland’s competitive research funding
Almost 50% of international researcher recruitment through Science Foundation
Ireland’s (SFI) programmes
A strong track record of collaboration in science and engineering that includes
flagship partnerships in engineering, chemistry and biopharmaceutical
science, biomedical science, neuroscience and digital research, among
other areas
The highest international rankings of Irish universities
The highest rate of publications in leading journals and citations per publication
Industry Collaboration, Knowledge Transfer
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Over 100 substantive collaborations with industry
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Two of Ireland’s most successful technology transfer and business
development units, Nova UCD and TTEC (Trinity Technology & Enterprise
Campus)
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Enterprise facilities that have significant capacity for expansion
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A track record of spinning out companies from campus research
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A track record of supporting spin-in companies that require campus-based
expertise and technologies during the start-up phase
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Ireland’s leading business schools with expertise in innovation,
entrepreneurship and technology management.
www.innovationalliance.ie
Innovation Corridor
The Future
Phase III Phase I Phase II
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Planning permission
completed
Planning permission,
PPP structure agreed
Phase IV
PPP structure
in negotiation
The Future
Phase I & II in context – CRANN towards Bioscience – the heart of a Science City
The Future
Phase II – Bioscience Building – facilitates SSTI, consolidation & international excellence
Supports Required
• Maintaining research investment
• Management and Commercialisation of
Intellectual Property from universities
• Creating “Innovation Ireland” (see Innovation
Taskforce Report)
• Advancing Enterprise Corridors to deliver an
Innovation City
Useful Links
• Ireland’s Smart Economy
www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/Building_Ireland's_Smart_Economy/
• Irish Government Innovation Task Force
www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/Innovation_Taskforce/
• Exploiting IP from Irish Universities
www.forfas.ie/publication/search.jsp?ft=/publications/featuredpublicatio
ns/title,6217,en.php
or http://bit.ly/c0W1pm