{"id":54518,"date":"2015-02-27T16:38:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=641e148365874cdb0df86f40830d064f"},"modified":"2015-02-27T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:38:21","slug":"news-story-digital-economy-2-million-funding-to-improve-user-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54518","title":{"rendered":"News story: Digital economy: \u00a32 million funding to improve user experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK is to invest up to \u00a32 million to support feasibility studies looking at innovative ways to improve the user experience in the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re looking for projects that use the increasing amount of personal data generated by individuals to gain insights into user needs and behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is open to small and medium-sized enterprises singly or in collaboration. Proposals must be led by a business. Small businesses could receive up to 70% of their eligible project costs, medium-sized businesses 60%.<\/p>\n<p>We expect projects to last between 6 to 12 months and total project costs to range in size from \u00a390,000 to \u00a3120,000.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 16 March 2015<\/li>\n<li>the deadline for registration is midday on 29 April 2015<\/li>\n<li>the deadline for applications is midday on 6 May  2015 <\/li>\n<li>there will be briefing events for potential applicants in: \n<ul>\n<li>London &#8211; 17 March 2015       <\/li>\n<li>Manchester &#8211; 19 March 2015<\/li>\n<li>Edinburgh &#8211; 20 March 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/enhancing-user-experience-using-personal-data\">Find out more about this competition and apply<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/connect.innovateuk.org\/events\">Register for briefing events<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting products and services to market first isn\u2019t a guarantee of success, the quality of the user\u2019s experience is equally important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}