Technology Transfer Strengthening Initiative
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Aim

The objective of the Technology Transfer Strengthening Initiative (TTSI) is to increase the level of intellectual property (IP) transferred to industry from research in Higher Education Institutions and to facilitate the development of high quality and effective systems and policies to ensure that the IP is identified, protected and transferred, where possible into companies in Ireland.

Technology Transfer Offices (TTO's)

Enterprise Ireland's Technology Transfer Support Unit is currently managing the Government's five year Technology Transfer Strengthening Initiative (2007-2011) which has a budget of €30 million.  To date, 10 institutes, listed in the table below, have been approved for funding totalling €17.1 million.  
This investment in 30 trained technology transfer professionals will ensure that over the next 5 years Ireland's technology transfer offices are adequately resourced to effectively carry out their role of capturing research results for economic benefit, as an integral part of the research environment.
Enterprise Ireland produced a publication outlining some of the successes of the Technology Transfer Offices to date which includes a short profile of each TTO. Click here to download the Business of Research in Ireland brochure in PDF format (size: 40KB)

 College

 Technology Transfer Offices
 NUIG  Technology Transfer Office
 UCD  NovaUCD
 DCU  Invent
 UCC  UCC Technology Transfer Office
 NUIM  NUIM Office of Commercialisation
 TCD  Trinity Research and Innovation
 RCSI    Office of Research and Technology Transfer
 DIT  DIT's Technology Transfer Office
 UL  University of Limerick Technology Transfer Office
 WIT  WIT Research Support

Institutes of Technology

A customised initiative for the Institutes of Technology to support their needs has begun.  This initiative will support areas such as sector-wide policies and procedures for the IoT's, assistance with case management, operational costs, training and communications.

Targets

For each institution annual targets will be monitored including:

  • patenting activity
  • number of licences and
  • number of start-ups companies

The supports and investment introduced through the TTSI is expected to result in an increase in such outputs and an increasingly more streamlined approach to the conversion of ideas onto such tangible results for all our benefits.

Click here to eMail this person Mary Gillick, Department Manager, Technology Exploitation Network
Tel: +353 (1) 7272691

Click here to eMail this person Cepta Duffy Operations Manager
Tel: +353 (1) 7272642

Click here to eMail this person Peter O'Fegan, Operations Manager, IoT's
Tel: +353 (0) 91 735921

Click here to eMail this person Zsuzsanna Kasza, Executive Assistant
Tel: + 353 (1) 7272361

Click here to eMail this person Majella Maher, EI Patent Fund Manager
Tel: +353 (91) 735976

Last updated 16/2/2010