{"id":62948,"date":"2015-10-16T13:53:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=83cd479359c8a0bc021d4ac4068342c1"},"modified":"2015-10-16T13:53:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T13:53:36","slug":"news-story-innovation-in-creative-industries-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=62948","title":{"rendered":"News story: Innovation in creative industries: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK is to invest up to \u00a34 million in innovative business projects that help to build on the UK\u2019s strengths in film, television, animation, video games, interactive media and visual effects.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s audio-visual sector employs 250,000 people and adds more than \u00a38 billion to the economy. In 2013, UK films earned \u00a32.7 billion globally, domestic film production was worth \u00a31 billion and exports of UK television programmes were worth \u00a31.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>UK businesses must keep innovating to maintain a world-leading position in an increasingly competitive media sector.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Successful projects could develop applications that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>improve content creation in real time across different platforms and media<\/li>\n<li>enable integration of pre-production, production and post-production processes<\/li>\n<li>improve the management of a complex mix of digital assets and metadata<\/li>\n<li>allow producers or consumers to interact with content<\/li>\n<li>improve the efficiency of content production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>this competition opens on 9 November 2015, and the deadline for registration is noon on 23 December 2015<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by a business working with at least one partner<\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to range in size from total costs of \u00a3300,000 to \u00a3750,000 and to last 9 to 18 months<\/li>\n<li>small businesses could receive up to 70% of their eligible project costs, medium-sized businesses 60% and large businesses 50%<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event for potential applicants will be held in London on 11 November 2015<\/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\/cross-platform-production-in-digital-media\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses can apply for a share of \u00a34 million for projects to meet the challenges of producing creative content across devices and media.<\/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\/62948"}],"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=62948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}