{"id":62016,"date":"2015-09-23T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1d91e6dfebb2c042568117f08592aadc"},"modified":"2015-09-23T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T11:55:00","slug":"news-story-software-and-complex-systems-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=62016","title":{"rendered":"News story: Software and complex systems: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory\">Dstl<\/a> (the Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory) are to invest up to \u00a3580,000 in innovative studies into software development focused on the verification and validation of complex systems.<\/p>\n<p>This competition covers complex systems encountered in areas such as knowlegde work automation, advanced robotics, automated and autonomous vehicles and smart systems.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses are being encouraged to develop appropriate links between the way a system behaves in the physical world and the software implementing its actions.<\/p>\n<p>The competition also aims to stimulate the development of new engineering methods for systems in which a machine, rather than a human, drives the decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>Innovate UK and Dstl particularly want to ensure that small and micro companies in the UK develop early capabilities in this evolving area.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>this competition is open and the deadline for registration is noon on 11 November 2015<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by a small or micro business working in partnership with one or more business or research partners<\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to range in size from total costs of \u00a350,000 to \u00a3100,000 and to last between 6 and 12 months<\/li>\n<li>small businesses could receive up to 70% of their costs, medium-sized businesses 60%, large businesses 50%<\/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\/software-verification-and-validation-for-complex-systems\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses can apply for funding for studies into developing links between the operations of complex systems and the software behind them.<\/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\/62016"}],"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=62016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}