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Innovation, Marketing and New
Technology Foresight
Dr. Stephen Flinter, Science Foundation Ireland

Research for Ireland’s Future

Innovation, Marketing and New Technology Foresight 2011

About SFI
 Founded in 2000

 Statutory body in 2003

 Annual budget €161m (2011), €156m (2012)

 Three core areas:
 ICT
 Life Sciences
 Energy

SFI Programmes
 Research Frontiers (>500 awards)
 €50k-€150k (p.a.)

 Principal Investigator (>100 awards)
 €150-€500k (p.a.)

 Strategic Research Cluster (19 awards)
 €1m-€1.5m (p.a.)

 Centres for Science Engineering and Technology (9
awards)
 €2m-€3.5m (p.a.)

SFI Process
 Open calls

 Investigator-driven

 Bottom-up selection

 Expert, international peer review panels

Stephenson’s Rocket
(1829)

Benz’s Internal Combustion
Engine (1896)

Marconi’s Transatlantic
Transmission (1901)

Commercial Supersonic
(1969)

Commercial Bulk Carriers
(1969)

Apollo 11 – Moon Landing
(1969)

Platform Technologies
 Processing

 Storage

 Display

 Communications

 Sensing

Moore’s Law
 The number of transistors on an integrated circuit
doubles every 2 years

 The processor speed doubles every 18 months

Multicore Processors

Intel Core i7 Processor

Reducing Cost of Storage

http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte

Samsung EcoGreen F2
HD103SI 1TB (2009)
 1TB capacity

 €69

Samsung Spinpoint F4EG –
2TB (2010)
 2TB capacity

 €89.95

Samsung Spinpoint F4EG –
2TB (2011)
 2TB capacity

 €179.95

iPod
 Introduced October
2001

 5 & 10 GB capacities

iPod Touch
 Introduced September
2007

 8, 32, 64GB

The Innovator’s Dilemma
 Clayton M. Christensen
(2000)

Electronic Paper

Amazon Kindle 3 Sony Prototype Flexible EPD

Communications
 7.2mbps wireless (HSDPA)

 ~7mbps (WiMAX)

 20mbps wired broadband

 75-300mbps wireless (3G LTE)

 100mbps WiFi (802.11n)

 100-1000mbps wireless (4G)

 1000mbps LAN

Photonics
 Used to support
backbone networks

 40 gbps – 1.5 tbps

Cognative Radio
 Ultra wide band

 Multiple frequencies

 Software defined radio

Positional Sensors

GPS Sensor In-car Sat Nav

Chemical/Environmental
Sensors

Microfluidics array & phosphate sensor package – NCSR & Clarity CSET

Body Sensors

An Post cycle team at being fitted with Foster Miller sensor vest (Clarity Centre)

Internet & World Wide Web

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Pre-92 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Web 3.0 – Semantic Web
 Ascribing meaning to
data

 Linked Data
 Connecting disparate
data sources

DERI sig.ma semantic search engine

Internet of Things
 Billions or even trillions
of connected devices

 Both wired & wireless

 Sensor web & semantic
web

Assisted Living
 Using sensor web to
monitor well being

 Fall detection

 Variations in daily
routine

Medical Devices
 Advanced signal
processing

 Real-time data analysis

 Connected devices

Neonatal brain monitoring at UCC

Location Awareness
 Mobile devices

 Multiple sensors

 Layer additional
information based on
location

Layar augmented reality

Data Analytics
 Measuring your
website

 …personal finances

 …business

 …warehouse

 …retail centre

 …

Data Mining & Visualisation
 Enormous growth in
volume of data

 Growing need to
analyse and visualise
data

Data visualisation – SFI Clique SRC

Conclusions
 Platform technologies continue to develop at
exponential pace

 New applications emerging to exploit platform
technologies

 Innovation happening at the integration points

 Analyzing the data becoming increasingly harder

 Sensor-based technologies next big thing

Contact
stephen.flinter@sfi.ie

@sflinter (Twitter)

http://flinter.com/contact

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