The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced that it will be investing in a Digital Economy ‘Catapult’ Centre to help spur innovation and adoption of new technologies. The centre will help transfer knowledge and experience from the digital industries to non-digital businesses and help them see the value that it could add to their business.
The centre is also likely to be involved in researching what impact new technologies, such as augmented reality, will have on existing platforms and the potential infrastructure changes needed to support them, and also in looking at how our devices, our clothes, our cars, and other consumer goods become better connected to enhance the physical nature of our lives.
The funding for the Centre will come from a £200m pot allocated for a network of new Catapult Centres across a number of different industry sectors. As yet though, there has been no decision as to where the Digital Economy ‘Catapult’ centre might be located…..anyone else thinking Bristol would be ideal?
