Creative Industries — Knowledge Transfer Network
Becaons For Innovation

Discover and engage with the latest technology insights and be inspired. The Creative Industries KTN (CITIN) presents an ever-growing landscape perspective of current - and future -innovation across all sectors of the creative industries.

Innovate 09: for Growth

13th of October 2009

We would like to invite you to join us at Innovate 09: for Growth, the Technology Strategy Board's annual exhibition and conference on the 13th October 2009 at the Business Design Centre, London. To register now, visit www.innovate09.co.uk.

Innovate 09: for Growth will address all aspects of technology innovation, with this year?s special focus being the commercial exploitation of a low carbon economy, sustainable energy generation and supply, the digital economy, and the healthcare of the future.

Join Innovate 09 and you can expect to:

* Hear from business, government, and academic leaders addressing the critical solutions and opportunities that innovation can stimulate.

* Learn about the latest funding opportunities, tools and networks that will enable you to commercialise your research and development activities.

* Meet the innovators you know about and those you don't, from across a wide spectrum of sectors

* Set up a meeting in advance, join a seminar, or introduce yourself to other visitors at Innovate ?09 in the networking zone.

Join Innovate 09: for Growth in new markets, new collaborations, and
new opportunities. The early-bird discount for tickets runs out on
Friday September 11th, so register now at www.innovate09.co.uk.

Get Involved in the big debate on Digital Content

Following last month’s launch of our Beacons for Innovation Report we have had a great response from people registering at the website to get involved in the Beacon Projects.

The first two Beacons both share the theme of the future of digital content, how will people experience it and how will it be distributed. We will soon be announcing details of live events and online activities for people to get involved in what will be the UK’s big debate on digital content.

This will include a major online survey that will be a key part of the baseline work and help us understand what people think about the future of digital media.

Next month we will be taking part in two high profile events to promote the survey. The Technology Strategy Board’s Innovate 09 which takes place on October 13 and the prestigious Power to the Pixel event at which we will be hosting a breakfast briefing. Power to Pixel takes place on Oct 14 and 15 and the Creative Industries KTN breakfast will be on the second day.

Work on the third Beacon Project, Knowledge Transfer is also progressing and we will announce details of activities in the near future. Meanwhile anyone interested in sparking a conversation can do so at the Creative Industries KTN website.

Prosthetics and Automatic Imagery Extraction

17 June 2009

The MoD has announced two new SBRI competitions that are due to open in July 2009. The first of these is looking for innovative research on Prosthetics, and opens on the 16th July with a seminar at Harwell. The MoD has a high obligation for duty of care to help retain personnel in-service and minimise disability on discharge. This call focuses on two specific areas of treatment research related to amputation and similar complex traumas. The first is the physiological and repair process and the second is functional restoration and retraining. These subjects cover a wide range of topics and will be of interest to a large spectrum of SMEs, academia and industries. Interested companies should register at www.science.mod.uk.

The second competition is in the field of Automatic Imagery Extraction. This opens on the 23rd July, again with a briefing seminar at Harwell. Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance imagery systems generate huge volumes of data, ranging from high resolution digital images to full motion video and require a large amount of operator effort to fully analyse and exploit. The competition seeks automatic and semi-autonomous tools and techniques to ease the operator workload in processing and exploiting imagery data. New tools and techniques should address the full range of activities included image registration, cueing of targets of interest, feature extraction, recognition and identification of targets, archiving and retrieval of products.

After the Crunch - Book available as free download

In this 100-page book, 42 artists, entrepreneurs, commentators, analysts, policy-makers, policy-sceptics, academics, financiers – and citizens – set out their hopes and fears for the future. The contributors to this book share a common theme: things can be different, and better, if we make the right choices. It is available for free download from www.creative-economy.org.uk

Government lifeline for high-tech businesses

22 April 2009

"Today the Government took a vital step on the road to recovery and the future looks a lot brighter for the UK’s entrepreneurs."

NESTA today welcomes the Government's announcement of a £750million investment fund to support high potential technology businesses.

New SBRI competition

20 April 2009

It is being run by the Design Council on behalf of the Home Office and is looking at how technology can be applied to the area of mobile phone security.  The Mobile Phone Security Challenge is offering a total of £400,000 to designers and technology experts to come up with new ways of securing handsets, the data they contain, and their future use as electronic ‘wallets’ when m-commerce technology is introduced in the UK.

The Challenge is part of Design out Crime, an initiative from the Home Office Design & Technology Alliance Against Crime and the Design Council.  The Mobile Phone Security Challenge is supported by the Technology Strategy Board.

More information and details of the competition are on www.designcouncil.org.uk/crime.

TSB Presentation, Bristol

Sian Brereton's presentation on TSB £5m Accessing and Commercialising Content Funding Call - from Partnering for Innovation Bristol event 17th February 2009.

Digital Britain

Lord Carter published his interim 'Digital Britain' report on the 29th January, calling for, amongst other objectives, Britain to achieve broadband in every home by 2012. You can read the report here; the final report will be published in Summer 2009, so there is still time to contribute to its final recommendations.

The Fashion for Smart Materials Report

This report has been prepared following the second in a series of collaborative events, entitled Another Side of Fashion. The event explored the wider influence of fashion, and the potential synergies between fashion, materials science and digital technology.

Media Sandbox 09

Media Sandbox 09 funding scheme launches - 19-Nov Bringing together leading technology, artistic and media talent, Media Sandbox is a commissioning scheme to support South West companies / organisations to research emerging possibilities in digital media. Image from BDH and Plot's Happy Towns, Media Sandbox 2008.

Lambert Tool Kit

Lambert Tool Kit for Collaborative Research This website provides a toolkit for universities and companies that wish to undertake collaborative research projects with each other. The toolkit consists of a set of five Model Research Collaboration (one to one) Agreements numbered 1-5 and four Consortium (multi-party) Agreements lettered A-D and documents that should help you to use and understand those agreements. The toolkit was prepared by the Lambert Working Group on Intellectual Property

The Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP)

The Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP) is a Government funded investment in excellence in leadership across the creative and cultural industries. By supporting an ambitious range of activities and opportunities, the programme aims to nurture and develop world class, dynamic and diverse leaders for the 21st Century.