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Creative, Digital & Design
Business Briefing
A digest of useful information for UK businesses seeking
business support, updated monthly
September 2017
@KTNUK

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Contents
• Feature
• Innovate UK funding calls
• Competitions
• Events
• Investment
• Support
• Market Research/Reports
• Articles

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A short business survey has been created to understand how effective
labelling, certification and other forms of assurance might make ICT
products and services more trustworthy and secure. We will be making
recommendations to the European Commission, which are likely to
impact on any business that has a digital presence across the European
Union.
Take part: click here
TRUESSEC business survey
***Feature***

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Opens: 10.07.17. Application deadline: noon on 13.09.17.
Key feature: Innovate UK is to invest up to £15 million in projects in this
competition. This is to stimulate innovation that creates UK business
growth in infrastructure systems. We want businesses to collaborate to
develop new integrated solutions and business models. Projects will
range in size from total project costs of £25,000 to £5 million and must
last between 3 months and 3 years.
Projects must show significant innovation in one of the priority areas:
• smart infrastructure
• energy
• connected transport
• urban
For further information click here
Infrastructure systems round 3
Innovate UK funding calls

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Opens: 10.07.17. Application deadline: noon on 13.09.17.
Key feature: UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £15 million.
This is to deliver game-changing, cutting-edge innovations with
significant potential for impact on the UK economy.
Innovate UK’s open competition aims to overcome barriers to cutting-
edge, game-changing innovation becoming a successful commercial
reality and/or resulting in significant, sustainable business growth.
For further information click here
Open programme round 3
Innovate UK funding calls

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Opens: 31.07.17. Application deadline: noon on 11.10.17.
Key feature: UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £8 million for
development of digital health or digitally-enabled medical technologies.
The aim of this competition is to speed up the development of new digital
solutions to healthcare challenges and grow the industry.
For further information click here
Digital Health Technology Catalyst 2017 - Round 1
Innovate UK funding calls

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Opens: 10.07.17. Application deadline: noon on 18.10.17.
Key feature: UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million to
research technologies and business models that develop future Vehicle-
to-Grid (V2G) products and services.
The Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and the Department for
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) are providing total
funding of £20 million for innovative projects that develop future V2G
products, services and knowledge.
This competition, run by Innovate UK, will support a range of Feasibility,
Collaborative R&D and Demonstrator projects.
For further information click here
Innovation in Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Systems Competition
Innovate UK funding calls

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Opens: 04.09.17 Closes: 08.11.17.
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million to develop
innovative solutions to challenges in emerging and enabling
technologies.
For further information click here
Emerging and Enabling: round 3
Innovate UK funding calls

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For further information click here
Funding competitions
BEIS Inventor Prize
The Inventor Prize is a pilot, run by Nesta and funded by the Department for
Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The prize aims to help
smaller inventors overcome the barriers they face. The Inventor Prize wants
to support individuals, teams or companies that would likely struggle to
otherwise access resources and support. Unlike other programmes, the
Inventor Prize will be athematic, open to products that relate to any issue as
long as that product helps to make people’s lives better, thereby helping to
tackle a social issue affecting the UK.

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Funding competitions
Immersive Experiences Research Call: The AHRC and EPSRC Immersive
Research Development Partnerships call is seeking proposals for grants
up to £75K to support the development of early stage research
partnerships that can explore the creation of new immersive experiences,
addressing three key themes of memory, place and performance.

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Immersive Digital Business Drop-In - 7 September, London
Expression of Interest - VR Writers Room® Digital Jam Ltd –
8 September, Isleworth
Emerging and Enabling Technologies Competition Round 3 Briefing –
12 Sept - London,13 Sep – Cardiff, 19 Sep – Belfast,
21 Sept - Glasgow
Events

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Private Investment Directory
Digital Refer now includes more than 250 organisations that provide
private investment to Digital and Creative businesses in the UK,
including:
Accelerator Programmes
Business Incubators
Start-up Studios
Venture Capital Funds
Angel Investor Networks
Corporate Venture Capital firms
Check out the new entries: bit.ly/ktnrefer
Investment

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Go To Grow - The Mayor’s International Business Programme
A new three year programme of mentoring, expert advice and real
business opportunities for high-growth companies Programme
focused on ‘internationalising’ scale-ups – London based companies
wanting to grow outside of the UK.
The programme is open to fast-growing companies in London
operating in three broad sectors: technology, life sciences, and
urban. Your business will need to demonstrate that it is already
generating revenue.
The PwC startup Growth Programme is a platform for fast growth,
disruptive startups who want to shape the future through scalable
innovation. 12 startups, 12 weeks, 2 programmes: Future of Work &
Future of Health
Support

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Immerse UK is a new cross-sector network for businesses and research
organisations across all parts of the UK economy that are interested in the
way that augmented and virtual reality can help drive productivity, social
and economic growth.
We are building a rolling programme of work, developed with our
members and the IET, which addresses the pressing issues that slow
down R&D and identifies the opportunities for growth and collaboration in
the emerging marketplace.
It is free to join, find out more and sign up here
Immerse UK

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P & G Signal Accelerator Innovation Brief : Call for Startup Submissions
Procter & Gamble is looking for new approaches and technologies that can
help them to address key business challenges/opportunities.
Articles