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80% of our time is spent supporting businesses:• Technical Due Diligence• Market Understanding an Access• Creating Opportunity
20% of our time is spent developing skills:• Market awareness• Connecting supply and demand
DEFINITION: Catapult
A catapult is a technology and innovation centre where the best of the UK's businesses, scientists and engineers can work side by side on research and development, transforming ideas into new products and services to generate economic growth.
Catapults add an important new dimension to complement existing research and development programmes established by Innovate UK.
All catapults use the power of people and organisations working closely together to unlock opportunity, reduce innovating risk and speed new products and services towards commercial reality.
Catapult centres will help businesses to adopt, develop and exploit innovative products and technologies. They offer concentrated expertise, access to cutting edge equipment and specialist facilities to develop and test ideas in reality.
KEY FACTS• Project work relevant to ‘digital’ and ‘non-digital’ companies
• Focus on sharing data for mutual benefit and overcoming all the problems associated with sharing
• £500k of Digital Catapult spend in the region (≈£2m project)
• Builds on current expertise to carve out an international reputation for the North East and its businesses
• Physical Centre in Sunderland
• Benefits of close links to a national project
• Ground work to find some early examples of data owners releasing data
• Big push on engaging non-digital companies (i.e. your customers)
• Physical centre opening in March with calendar of events
• More opportunities to engage on Digital Catapult Projects
Between now and September ‘15
North East Specialisms• Machine to Machine Communications• Cloud Computing / SaaS • System Design & Integration
TECH NORTH
Areas of Focus• Teacher – Business Connections• CSR awards for SMEs• Apprenticeship Hub• Apprenticeship Pilots• Aggregating Demand
Call to Action
1. Identify potential candidate projects• Non-digital companies with challenges
and data2. Identify digital companies who can help
on projects (NE initially)3. Support the process4. Skills – get involved