Accessing and Commercialising Content - Funding Opportunity for Creative Industries
The Technology Strategy Board is to invest £5m in a programme to help digital content creators and rights holders realise and maximise the commercial return potential from their intellectual property (IP).
The creative industry contributes a Gross Value Added (GVA) of 7.3% to the UK economy, with the content industries – computer games, TV and video, film, music, publishing, advertising and new media (all sectors in which the UK performs strongly on a world stage) – accounting for three quarters of the value.
This investment by the Technology Strategy Board will support growth within the UK content industries and help develop the market pull to promote exploitation of the underlying digital technologies.
Who is this funding relevant to?
The Technology Strategy Board is concerned with innovative solutions to develop underlying capability that can be exploited widely within the UK digital content sector, i.e. applications or tools that have
the potential to be applied across many businesses. This competition is likely to be relevant to businesses and practitioners in the following sectors:
- Advertising and Publishing
- Computer games
- Film, Video, TV, Music and Radio
- Content creators and Rights holders
- Digital content distribution
- Digital/new media
- ICT and comms technology suppliers
About Technology Strategy Board
The Technology Strategy Board is an executive non-departmental public body (NDPB), established by the Government in 2007. Their role is to stimulate technology-enabled innovation in areas that offer the greatest scope for boosting UK growth and productivity. Support includes investment in technology research, development and commercialisation through the spread of knowledge, bringing people together to solve problems and make new advances.
Deadlines
- Competition opens - 16th March 2009
- Expressions of Interest - 23rd April 2009
- Feedback - 11th May 2009
- Registration of intent to submit - 18th June 2009
- Deadline - 25th June 2009
- Decision and feedback - 24th July 2009
Further Information
For information about this and other competitions and details of how to register and apply:
Website: www.innovateuk.org
Helpline: 01355 272155
Email: competitions@tsb.gov.uk
