Technology Strategy Board

NOW CLOSED FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST!!
 
The Technology Strategy Board is a Non Departmental Public Body established by the UK government in 2007. The vision of the Technology Strategy Board is summarised in this extract from their web site:
 
"For the UK to be a global leader in innovation and a magnet for innovative businesses, who can apply technology rapidly, effectively and sustainably to create wealth and enhance quality of life."
 
The support provided by the Technology Strategy Board takes the form of a competition with the latest competition being titled "Accessing and Commercialising Content in a Digitally Networked World".
The competition is targeted directly at companies active in the Creative Industry and Digital Media sectors and is open to all UK based companies and research organisations. 
 
The competition opens on March 16th 2009 and has an expression of interest deadline 23rd April 2009 and subsequent final entry submission date of 25th June 2009.
 
The scope of the competition is defined as follows:
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 user generated 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.

 
Full details of the competition can be found in a downloadable PDF
Further details of the Technology Strategy Board can be found on their web site
 
For more information on the TSB event "Partnering for Innovation" which runs in conjuction with this competition please visit our "What's on" section.