The research community at ITB is involved collaboratively with research projects with industry, community organisations and different agencies in the locality. Some of these include:

• National Road Authorities
• IBM
• Intel
• Havoc
• Wavebob Ltd.
• ESB
• Health Service Execituve
• SMEs on the Innovation Voucher scheme

Funding for these collaborations has been secured from:

• the Technological Sector Postgraduate R&D Skills Training Programme
• Enterprise Ireland's Innovation Partnership scheme where the Institute has teamed up with local companies to conduct R&D to improve processes and procedures
• Enterprise Ireland's Proof Of Concept funding which allows the development of a possible commercial activity
• Enterprise Ireland's Innovation Voucher Scheme for linking SMEs with 3rd level institutions
• the Embark Initiative
• the Higher Education Authority
• Leonardo Da Vinci programs

ITB has been very successful in linking with SMEs through the Enterprise Ireland Innovation Scheme which allows enterprises to link with 3rd level Institutions to enable the enterprise to get some innovative research and development completed for the growth of their business.

Further information on any aspect of these collaborations please contact ITB's Industrial Liaison Manager, Assumpta Harvey at (01) 8851186 or assumpta.harvey@itb.ie

Keywords:

Research; EI; Innovation and Development; R&D