1. Who we are
Game Republic
Oct 2018
Andy Curtis: KTM : Digital Economy
@andyc172
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3. Who we are
As Innovate UK’s network partner, KTN combines in-depth
expertise in all sectors with the ability to cross boundaries.
Connecting with KTN can lead to potential partners, horizon-
expanding events, and innovation insights relevant to your
needs.
We help business to grow the economy and improve people’s
lives by capturing maximum value from innovative ideas,
scientific research and creativity.
8. How can we help?
• Free and confidential advice
• Collaboration & opportunity creation events
• Funding competition briefings
• Helping you to find partners
• Creating UK emerging tech networks
• Reviewing grant proposals
• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
• Industrial Strategy Workshops
10. Check out our monthly briefing
• Latest funding opportunities
• Upcoming events
• Private investment calls
• Support organisations
• Free available online resource
http://bit.ly/Oct18Briefing
11. Digital Refer: your directory
Includes more than 250 organisations:
• Accelerator Programmes
• Business Incubators
• Start-up Studios
• Venture Capital Funds
• Angel Investor Networks
• Corporate Venture Capital firms
http://bit.ly/ktnrefer
12. Immerse UK
• Augmented and Virtual Reality Independent Network
• Bringing together businesses, public sector & research
• Free to Join
• Learn more about Immersive Tech developments
• Help shape UK funding & research policy
• Showcase your ideas & identify funding opportunities
• Make business connections & form collaborative partnerships
http://www.immerseuk.org/
13. UK5G
https://uk5g.org/
• Promotion of research, collaboration and the commercial application of
5G in the UK
• Share the knowledge and lessons of 5G Testbeds & Trials projects
• Enable new partnerships between technologists, potential new entrants
and major industrial adopters
• Support local (and international) investment opportunities
14. Production innovation for
immersive content
• Innovate UK as part of UK Research and Innovation
• Opened: 1st October 2018
• Closes: 28 November 2018
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £8 million for research
and development projects to create faster, more efficient immersive
content. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
http://bit.ly/immersiveRandD18
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Aims:
We want to enable businesses to develop the knowledge, skills and
business insight needed to capture new global audiences by adopting,
exploiting and developing immersive technologies and experiences.
This will help the UK grow its leading market position in creative
content, products and services.
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Scope:
The aim is to explore future commercial opportunities in the creative
industries, through pre-commercial projects, which enable the creation
of immersive content in faster, more efficient or novel ways.
Your project must demonstrate it can significantly advance the current
state of the art in its chosen field.
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The 9 sectors in the UK Creative Industries:
1. Advertising and marketing
2. Architecture
3. Crafts
4. Design: product, graphic and fashion
5. Film, TV, video, radio and photography
6. Computer games and services
7. Publishing
8. Museums, galleries and libraries
9. Music, performing and visual arts
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Your project must also:
• Involve at least once participant who is a content creator and
creation of content must be part of the supply chain
• Involve the development of tools, products or services necessary to
create and deliver immersive content
• Demonstrate innovation in software, hardware and/or development
methodology
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Content Creators:
A content creator in this context is:
“An organisation within the Creative Industries that originates and
produces creative works that can be protected through Intellectual
Property Rights.”
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Projects we will not fund:
• Projects or solutions in areas other than the Creative Industries
• Solutions which do not enable or facilitate the creation of immersive
content
• Project which request funding for non-UK based partners or sub-
contractors
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Project size:
• Projects to £250,000 must be single company and led by a micro,
small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
• Projects over £250,000 must be collaborative and involve at least
one (SME)
22. Events for your diary:
Keep an eye on the KTN events page for new events.
• 19th Oct : Innovation Loans Open Competition : Briefing and Workshop (London)
• 1st Nov : Digital Business Meet-Up (London)
• 14th & 15th November : Digital Manufacturing Week (Liverpool)
• 6th Feb : Women in Innovation (London)
• 15th Nov : ImmerseUK and Digital Business Meet-up (Newcastle)
• 22nd Nov : ImmerseUK and Digital Business Meet-up (Sheffield)
• 29th Nov : ImmerseUK and Digital Business Meet-up (Birmingham)
Events page: www.ktn-uk.co.uk/events
Notas do Editor
We are here to deliver UK economic growth.
We are interested in working with UK business who have the potential to grow through their innovations, whether it’s a novel product, process or service
Helping you make a success of your ideas, delivers growth for the UK economy,
We are there to help realise the future. Faster
Because we are grant funded by the government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to act as their connectors, we do not charge for our core services.
We are here to deliver UK economic growth.
We are interested in working with UK business who have the potential to grow through their innovations, whether it’s a novel product, process or service
Helping you make a success of your ideas, delivers growth for the UK economy,
We are there to help realise the future. Faster
Because we are grant funded by the government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to act as their connectors, we do not charge for our core services.
The Knowledge Transfer Network connects people
As Innovate UK’s network partner, KTN combines in-depth expertise in all sectors with the ability to cross boundaries. Connecting with KTN can lead to potential partners, horizon-expanding events, and innovation insights relevant to your needs.
We help business to grow the economy and improve people’s lives by capturing maximum value from innovative ideas, scientific research and creativity.
We specialise in cross-sector collaboration and our team of innovation experts can connect you to our network of business, academics and other innovation support providers in order to help you:
Find markets
We can help you find new markets for your innovation that you haven’t previously accessed.
Find solutions
We can introduce you to a product, process or service from a different market that solves a problem in your area of work.
Find funding
We can advise on where and how to apply for funding and finance
Our projects are dynamic and change with the changing needs of industry sectors.
Our project work ranges from producing roadmaps to influencing government policy on behalf of industry, to connecting the best minds from otherwise un-connected sectors to solve innovation challenges.
We connect people who would not normally meet
Here’s some examples of our work ..
Must, means must! If it’s not in scope, your application will be immediately rejected – pay attention!
We only fund game changers, not iterations or duplications of things that already exist, please.
IP is key to ensuring that this projects will have the desired affect on the market. Our assessors will be scrutinizing this in detail.
All of these are musts!
Again, only game changing projects.
We want to see both creative and technology innovation, not just tech!
These need to make money, despite being pre-commercial we need to know any new revenue streams.
If there’s only 1 company, that must be you. Otherwise a content creator must be part of your consortium
This is basically the opposite requirements of the scope section, but worth repeating.
You can work with non-UK partners or subcontractors but they can not claim funding
We will not fund projects or solutions which involve the development or application of tools, products or services in areas other than the creative industries
£100k-£250k
£250k-£1m
If your project’s total costs or duration fall outside our eligibility criteria, contact us at least 10 days before the competition closes.