{"id":63063,"date":"2015-10-21T08:28:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T08:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=12c99532c8faf4ffd0011dfd83ffeefb"},"modified":"2015-10-21T08:28:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T08:28:58","slug":"news-story-exploiting-5g-infrastructure-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=63063","title":{"rendered":"News story: Exploiting 5G infrastructure: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK has up to \u00a31 million to invest in business projects to develop innovative new 5G applications and services that take advantage of the UK\u2019s future 5G infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>There has already been significant support for a 5G infrastructure in the UK and investment by some of the leading players including network operators, equipment sellers and universities. <\/p>\n<p>The 5G infrastructure will offer a very high level of connectivity and ultra-high data rates.<\/p>\n<p>This competition aims to support businesses to develop 5G applications and services that will help the UK to be an early exploiter of 5G and a leader in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Funded collaborative R&amp;D projects are expected to be across a broad range of areas but could include ones related to the Internet of Things, the tactile internet, mission-critical applications, new handset services, new mobile applications, connected media services, immersive and interactive content, and content distribution.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>this competition opens on 7 December 2015, and the deadline for registration is noon on 20 January 2016<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by a business working with academic or research institutions and\/or communications service providers<\/li>\n<li>public sector organisations and charities involved in research can be a partner in a project<\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to range in size from total costs of \u00a3150,000 to \u00a3220,000 and to last 9 to 12 months<\/li>\n<li>small businesses could receive up to 70% of their costs, medium-sized businesses 60%, large businesses 50%<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event for potential applicants will be held in London on 10 December 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\/5g-applications-and-services\">Find out more about this 5G applications and services competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses can apply for a share of up to \u00a31 million for innovative projects to exploit opportunities created by a new 5G infrastructure.<\/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\/63063"}],"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=63063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}