KTI Confernce 2016

KTI annual report good news for Irish research

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Dr Alison Campbell, Knowledge Transfer Ireland; Minister for Training, Skills & Innovation John Halligan; and Karl Flannery, KTI Industry Advisory Board and Storm Technology

18 November 2016

Figures released by Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) at its annual conference today revealed a record 748 new collaborative research agreements were signed in 2015 between research performing organisations and industry.

The results of the Annual Knowledge Transfer Survey which tracks engagement and commercialisation activity between the commercial sector and Ireland’s research performing organisations also found that 65% of collaboration agreements signed by research performing organisations were with Irish companies; 94% of collaborative research agreements with the SME sector were with Irish SMEs; and 1,235 live collaborative research programmes involving research performing organisations were underway at year end.

“Knowledge Transfer continues to grow in Ireland,” said Knowledge Transfer Ireland director Dr Alison Campbell (pictured). “The latest figures around collaborative research – just one aspect of knowledge transfer – are testament to that. We have also seen encouraging growth in the transfer of intellectual property to companies through licensing agreements. And the numbers registered for our conference today indicate that innovation through collaboration with publicly funded research appears to be thriving.

“We now have 34 globally accredited registered technology transfer professionals in our universities and Institutes of Technology – the highest number of RTTP per capita in the world. Today is about bringing together the knowledge transfer community and industry experts from around the country to highlight the simplest routes to access researcher knowledge and share best practice.”

KTI acts as the interface between public research and industry through its Web portal and manages the €22.8 million Enterprise Ireland Technology Transfer Strengthening Initiative Funding Programme.

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