The Technology Strategy Board Competition for Funding

This competition is looking for proposals to develop applications that can be deployed across the digital content sector to extend market opportunities and promote the commercial exploitation of IP for content creators and rights holders. These could include innovative projects addressing all or any of the following for professionally produced or usergenerated content and mash up services:

• Development of new business models, business processes, consumer experiences and approaches to deriving commercial benefit from IP.
• Applications that make it easier for rights holders to efficiently and effectively collect revenue from their content/services.
• Solutions to broaden the market access of digital content services; this could include the development of new platforms designed to deliver scale to small businesses, or solutions to support multiplatform distribution of content based services.
• Applications to help provide intelligent access to context relevant content, e.g. driven by individual consumer behaviours, habits, preferences or device selection.
• Development of intuitive tools and applications to increase participation and extend democratisation of the Web for generating and interacting with content and networks.
• Applications or tools to support the emergence of new value chains. Proposals that seek to apply well established solutions from other industries to the digital content sector will be considered alongside the truly novel.

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 particularly relevant to the games industry among other sectors.

For more information about this and other competitions and details of how to register and apply, please see Competitions at www.innovateuk.org.

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