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SICSA - Knowledge TransferColin Adams

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Main Aims

Maximise Impact of Research upon the Commercial Arena

Improve relations and research collaborations with-Global Majors

-Local SME’s

Inspire/Develop more Start-ups and Spin Outs from the Pool

Develop the Community and share best practice

One Shop Window for Informatics/Computer Science Scotland

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ProspeKTBuilding a world class Knowledge Transfer practice embedded within the School of

Informatics

5 year Partnership with SE, £8.3M of investmentSE (£4.9M) + University of Edinburgh (£3.4M)

3 year ERDF award for £3.7m for Enterprise CreationInformatics Ventures – National Program

Strong external representation on Supervisory BoardCrawford Beveridge, Polly Purvis, 1 Entrepreneur - IndustryDavid Caughey, John Murray + 1 from co-investment fund– SEAssociated Global Scot PanelEntrepreneurs in Residence program

Economic Impact via Industrial CooperationLarge GlobalsLocal SME’sStart-ups

3 major themesCommercialisationEntrepreneurship CultureOutreach

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Informatics Ventures£3.7M funding from ERDF for Enterprise Creation across SICSA group

4 major pillars

Entrepreneurship Education

Equip the students and researchers to develop Start Ups

Practitioner lead, series of workshops and seminars

Partner with the best – Stanford, MIT, Cambridge– Silicon Valley Speaker CEO workshops

• Z held so far, xx participants, Edinburgh, Glasgow– Ken Morse (MIT)

• 4 held so far, x participants, Glasgow and Edinburgh– Doug Richards : School for Start Ups

• 3 held so far, y particpants, Glasgow and Edinburgh– Tailored Summer School

• Sept-09 kick off• Joint summer Schools also with other Pools

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Web Based Information Services

Entrepedia – Wiki for student business formation-(http://www.entrepedia.org)-Edited by students for students, community effort-Basic info on how to start your company

Pod.ium – Podcast Channel: -Connect start ups to funders and management talent-Entrepreneurial Education videos

Tech Entrepreneur – online Course-Based on STVP Curriculum-Developed by Edinburgh as follow on to Edinburgh Stanford Link-(http://www.techent.org/home.htm)

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Building the Community

Tech Meet-Up-Technical group (geekfest) meets once per month

-Edinburgh group thriving, Glasgow group being formed, North East next

-Experimenting with customised social website

–(http://www.techmeetup.co.uk/)

Mobile Phone Apps Group

Annual BarCamp-14-March-09, Appleton Tower

VC Event Each Spring - Engage, Invest, Exploit –Guy Kawasaki, 29-April-09

SME Event each November – Lifting the Lid –Research connections to SME’s–1st event Nov-08, 8 SICSA institutions, 55 displays, 200 guests

Number of other special group meetings

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Focus on Potential Winners

How to produce companies of scale

12 hot prospects bursaries to MIT/Cambridge EDP programs–10 Bursary winners to EDP at MIT, Feb-09–Competition underway for Ignite at Cambridge, July-09

Entrepreneurs in Residence Program-Engage local Serial Entrepreneurs in potential start-ups–Direct the spend on projects considered to have global promise

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Open Innovation Engagement

Informatics-MFSP-Microsoft Surface Challenge

1st Microsoft Surface in Scotland,

1st in a university in the UK

£10K prize fund,

specific category for Students

Most innovative use of a Surface in a Retail Banking Branch

MFSP will have 6 month negotiation window with entrants to develop their idea further

Major Financial Services Provider +

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Empowerment

Disruptive Companies in this sector come from people under the age of 25

Mobile Phone Apps Group- Group aimed at promoting Mobile Phone Apps as a business opportunity- Similar to the Tech Meet up – connecting community work- Engagement with local SME’s in this niche- Engagement with the major platform vendors- Open Innovation challenge model

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Start-up Food ChainSICSA

Start-ups/Spin Outs

Goal/Goal!!

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In FlightProof of Concept

Combilex - Speech generation LexiconDJ4me - Internet radio - automated DJBrainwave - CNS drug discovery using fly brainsiBehave - Behaviour tracking - machine learningDUDE - Dialog SystemsBioCAD - Schematic editor, metabolic pathways

PoC Series11 – in processMFCUK - Microbial Fuel Cells

ITIText Mining - Curating Life Sciences texts, CV miningSecurity - Program proving for security

EPSRC Follow on FundSecurity - Program proving for security

OtherSpecknet - Wireless Sensor NetworksI-Room - Virtual Worlds

RSE Enterprise fellowshipXibei Jai/QUAID - Automated data cleaning

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Student Company Incubation + EPISEPIS

Yadster: Peer to peer search engineDot Red Games: Casual Games - for the over 30’sFlexpansion: Text completion for Mobile PhoneSNoCat.com Web based marketsVidioWIKI: Web based communications (video)Spinsight Sports BroadcastingAffectLabs: Sentiment Analysis on the webNothing Grinder Searchable website in a boxLoc8 Location based mobile services

PEFAutomatic Text Illust: Image tagging

ETTCHubDub: News prediction based, social web siteMobile Health Networks: Patient records in A&E

RSE Enterprise FellowshipsLinguit: Natural language search for Phones

Linguit®

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Lego Robotics Cup: 1st Scottish Round, December 2008

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Craiglockhart Primary School - Champions!

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Some of our Collaborators

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