including the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) and ETSI. The TSSG ethos continues to be an attempt to straddle all of these types of activity, each with its own priorities, to ensure the continued relevance of its research and development activities. This Innovation Model was formally documented in a submission to the Irish Innovation Task Force in 2009, but draws on its much longer history of innovation. In 2010 Mícheál Ó Foghlú took a leave of absence from the TSSG to join the TSSG spinout FeedHenry Ltd. and in 2014 published his personal perspective on the history of the TSSG. In total TSSG has created 15 start-ups since its inception and 12 since 2006. The TSSG also provides a wide range of innovation services to start-ups and multinationals, particularly those based in Ireland, and as of 2014 completes around 40 or more direct industry innovation projects a year. In 2011 the TSSG restructured into a series of Research Units (RUs) that each have active basic, applied and commercial activity. More narrowly focused units are called groups rather than units, usually driven by a single funding source rather than the full mix. Mobile Services 3MT (Mobile, Messaging and Middleware) – Full lifecycle of integrated services, Inter-discipline service management research, cognitive mechanisms, federation, virtual infrastructure and cloud computing Data Mining and Social Computing Design and Usability ENL (Emerging Networks Laboratory) These units collaborate on larger projects, and bring in funding to strategically grow each of these research areas. In 2012, the TSSG restructured its management team and the TSSG is now led by Prof. Willie Donnelly as Director and Barry Downes as CEO and supported by a senior management team. In March 2014, Ruairi Quinn, Minister for Education, officially opened NetLabs, as part of the Research and Innovation cluster of WIT's West Campus. In September 2019 Dr. Sasitharan Balasubramaniam was appointed as Director of Research to join Kevin Doolin, Director of Innovation to drive the research centre towards investigating futuristic next-generation technologies, to verify their capabilities and applicability for today’s society, and to work in collaboration with industry to ensure their commercialisation. Specialist Areas There are 5 specialist research areas within TSSG, which are Agri-Tech, which TSSG is leading a number of research projects in this area. One example is the €17.5m “DEMETER” project that is looking at creating full interoperability of equipment, sensors and machinery across the agricultural supply chain. TSSG is