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» RESEARCH Tyndall National Institute in Cork is Ireland’s largest research institute, and the new technologies it has developed have been licensed by major organisations like Intel. Grainne Rothery speaks to CEO, PROF ROGER WHATMORE TOMORROW’S WORLD 28 INNOVATION IRELAND REVIEW Issue 2 Spring/Summer 2011
RESEARCH » ‘The work we’re doing in photonics is really cutting edge and it’s attractive to a number of companies’ A SERIES OF GROUNDBREAKING DEVELOPMENTS IN ITS SPECIALIST AREAS OF PHOTONICS, NANOTECH- NOLOGY AND MICROSYSTEMS, as well as high-profile collaborations with some of the world’s leading IT companies such as Intel and Analog Devices, and positive international scientific reviews, have helped establish the Cork-based Tyndall National Institute as a major European research hub in information and communications technology in the relatively short time since being set up in 2004. Today, with 460 people working onsite – including more than 200 staff and 140 research students, as well as interns on shortterm secondments and a number of researchers in residence from industry – Tyndall, which is a part of University College Cork and has strong links with Cork Institute of Technology, is Ireland’s largest research institute. In addition to its three core areas of interest, the centre has a theory, modelling and design technical centre and a fabrication facility. Included onsite is a state-of-the-art €47.8m research building opened in 2009 and dedicated to ICT and nanoscale semiconductor research and development. The institute has a strong commitment to sharing both its knowledge and its facilities. For example, a National Access Programme (NAP), funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), has been running since 2004 and enables access to Tyndall’s facilities and expertise for all academic researchers in Ireland. Tyndall’s vision, meanwhile, is to play a central role in the future of the development of the Irish knowledge economy. The institute has a “from atoms to systems” philosophy, according to Prof Roger Whatmore, who has been CEO of Tyndall since January 2006 and previously spent 18 years in the electronics industry in the UK and 11 years at Cranfield University. While exploring the technologies around its key areas of interest is vital, he believes the aspect of where the technology is going and its applications is almost more important. “We are looking towards where these technologies go in communications and the digital economy, healthcare, care of the environment, and energy, particularly from the point of view of energy management. “Pretty much everybody in Tyndall has ultimately a view of where the technology is going to go sometime in the future,” he says. “It’s not what you’d call blue skies. It is always with a view that it might be useful somewhere. It’s curiosity driven because we’re curious to know if we can make it better. Even the most theoretically-minded individuals in Tyndall would still have that point of view.” Issue 2 Spring/Summer 2011 INNOVATION IRELAND REVIEW 29
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