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IVI Webinar Series: Research Supports/ Innovation Vouchers

by | Aug 30, 2024 | Webinars | 0 comments

Research supports/ Innovation vouchers

Thursday 3rd October 3-4.30pm (GMT+1)

Online Event

In this webinar we will discuss the research funding opportunities that collaborating organisations can avail of to address their digital transformation challenges.

We will outline the funding programmes available to companies of all sizes from Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland and the European Union.

We will hear from some of the many organisations who have successfully applied for these funding schemes and benefited in a strategic and practical way from these programmes to deliver valuable outcomes for their businesses.

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Speakers

Program Manager - Innovation Voucher at Innovation Value Institute

Rajat Singh
Operations Manager

Paul Heynen
Director of Innovation Value Institute

Professor Markus Helfert
Program Manager - Innovation Voucher at Innovation Value Institute

Rajat Singh

Rajat is the Program Manager for Innovation Vouchers at the Innovation Value Institute. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and assessing opportunities to secure Innovation Vouchers (IV) that support collaborative projects between SMEs and IVI. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Analytics from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Following his graduation, he gained experience as a Business Analyst at Accenture for two years. Prior to his time in Ireland, he has worked in business development, focusing on cybersecurity and cloud solutions.

Operations Manager

Paul Heynen

Paul has been working with IVI as operations manager since its formation in 2006. Paul is responsible for the non-research business operations functions in IVI including community, member and partner engement, financial administration, liaison with central university administrative functions, and on-going management and development of IVI-specific IT systems and platforms. Prior to joining IVI, Paul worked in the semiconductor industry for 11 years in various engineering and management roles, most recently as a product manager for an advanced process control software and analytics start-up.

Director of Innovation Value Institute

Professor Markus Helfert

Markus Helfert is the Director of IVI and Director of Empower – the SFI funded Programme on Data Governance. He is also Professor of Digital Service Innovation and Director of the Business Informatics Group at Maynooth University. He is a Principle Investigator at Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre and at the Adapt Research Centre. His research is centred on Digital Service Innovation, Smart Cities and IoT based Smart Environments and includes research areas such as Service Innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Smart Services, Building Information Management, FinTech, Data Value, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Adoption, Analytics, Business Process Managem ent. Prof. Helfert is an expert in Data Governance Standards and is involved in European Standardisation initiatives. Markus Helfert has authored more than 200+ academic articles, journal and book contributions and has presented his work at international conferences. Helfert has received national and international grants from agencies such as European Union (FP7; H2020), Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, was project coordinator on EU projects, and is the Project coordinator of the H2020 Projects: PERFORM on Digital Retail.

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