Industry

Commercialisation Policy

Ireland is making the transition from an economy where foreign investment played a large role, particularly in the ICT sector in order to serve the EU market, to an economy based on innovation. With larger and larger quantities of public money being invested in research there is a greater and greater demand to be socially accountable and show a return benefit to funding providers i.e. Irish Tax payers. The NCPST endeavours to meet this demand by being a world class research centre for plasma related research, producing world class publications and graduates, we also endeavour to increase this .return on investment. is in the technology transfer/commercialisation of the research undertaken within the Centre. The NCPST is the platform that can provide the link between lab and marketplace.

Commercialisation process

Idea -> technology evaluation -> product concept -> potential market -> commercialisation

Potential Routes to Market

• Patents & sell licences
• Tech Transfer to industrial partner
• Start-up
• Consultancy

Plasma Technology is a .platform technology. and as such covers an extensive range of both fundamental and applied areas. Within the NCPST there is an extensive number of research project being undertaken from fundamental to applied with application areas of semiconductor manufacturing, fusion energy, medical devices ...

The NCPST will

• establish a technology commercialisation information desk
• facilitate its members and partners in the management of intellectual property
• will provide information on support mechanisms available to fund both IP management and collaborative projects
• provide assistance in applying for these support initiatives
• where there is a collaborative project (short or long term) with an industrial partner the centre can negotiate terms for the management of IP

The NCPST is sourcing Venture Capital Seed Fund partners with the objective of support the commercialisation of aspects of the Centre.s research activities.

DCU Support

The NCPST is supported in the commercialisation of ideas by INVENT.

Here is a link to a talk recently given by Ron Immink to NCPST members.