About ISIN:

•Commenced Q4 2009

•Matchmaking and knowledge brokering service

•Purpose: to help digital technology companies identify and engage with relevant third level research institutes

•Funded by Enterprise Ireland and managed by the Irish Software Association (ISA) via stakeholder board

Commercialisation

Collaboration Clusters

•ISIN supports the formation of clusters of academics, indigenous software companies and multinationals to address particular problems posed by industry in a collaborative fashion

•Practical examples: Wireless cluster (www.wirelesslab.ie), Dublinked, CloudArena, Scrum Ireland

Successes to date

•Company visits: over 200

•Supported: over 30 companies on searches, funding, information & collaboration

•Collaborations: Supported 15 companies in setting up funded collaborations with researcher institutes

•Over €1 million in funding supporting these collaborations

•ISA flagship programme