Innovate UK
Innovate UK is to invest up to 4 million in innovative business projects that help to build on the UKs strengths in film, television, animation, video games, interactive media and visual effects.
The UKs audio-visual sector employs 250,000 people and adds more than 8 billion to the economy. In 2013, UK films earned 2.7 billion globally, domestic film production was worth 1 billion and exports of UK television programmes were worth 1.2 billion.
UK businesses must keep innovating to maintain a world-leading position in an increasingly competitive media sector.
This funding competition aims to stimulate new products and services that address the technical challenges of producing content across a range of devices and media.
Successful projects could develop applications that:
- improve content creation in real time across different platforms and media
- enable integration of pre-production, production and post-production processes
- improve the management of a complex mix of digital assets and metadata
- allow producers or consumers to interact with content
- improve the efficiency of content production
Competition information
- this competition opens on 9 November 2015, and the deadline for registration is noon on 23 December 2015
- projects must be led by a business working with at least one partner
- we expect projects to range in size from total costs of 300,000 to 750,000 and to last 9 to 18 months
- small businesses could receive up to 70% of their eligible project costs, medium-sized businesses 60% and large businesses 50%
- a briefing event for potential applicants will be held in London on 11 November 2015