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Creative, Digital & Design Business Briefing
A digest of useful information for UK businesses seeking funding and support, updated monthly
August 2015
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Contents
• Upcoming events• KTN events• Public funding calls• Other public funding• Public investment• Private financing • Other financing mechanisms• Launching a new business?• Non-financial support for your business • Training & skills• Useful reports
Upcoming Events
Pure London – London, 2-4 August
Manchester Digital Creatives – Manchester, 18 August
Turing Festival – Edinburgh, 21-22 August
360D – Glasgow, 3 September
Legends of Gaming Live – London, 4-6 September
3D-Print and Scanning Roadshow – Solihull, 7 September
GREAT WEEK Creative Industries and Global Projects - Milan Expo, 7-11 September
Innovate 2015 – London, 9-10 November
Public funding calls
Key feature: Investment by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in a single collaborative R&D project to demonstrate the capability of the Internet of Things (IoT) in a city region. Projects must be collaborative and led by a local authority or local enterprise partnership (or an equivalent body outside England). Projects should involve at least one local authority, one local enterprise partnership and several businesses.
Scale: up to £10m
Closes: 23 September 2015 More info on: innovateuk.org
Internet of Things - cities demonstrator
Public funding calls
Key feature: This Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) themed competition is on behalf of UK intelligence agencies: MI5, GCHQ and MI6. The internet of things, as a network of multiple connected sensors, capable of communicating with their environment, creates security challenges. This competition is looking for research proposals to identify innovative technologies or approaches to meet these challenges.
Scale: Up to £1 million is available for phase 1 of this competition. A number of projects will be funded between £60,000 to £90,000 for a duration of around 3 months. Closes: 29 October 2015
More info: gov.uk
Security for the internet of things
Public funding calls
Key feature: investment by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in collaborative R&D projects and feasibility studies (delivered by Innovate UK on behalf of BIS) to stimulate developments in autonomous vehicles and connected transport systems.
Scale: up to £20m
Briefing: Register here for a briefing event and here for a briefing webinar – both on 4 August 2015
Closes: 23 September 2015
More info: innovateuk.org
Connected and autonomous vehicles
Public funding calls
Key feature: Innovate UK is offering up to six businesses a maximum of £35k each to encourage innovation around VR/AR across the themes of music, retail, healthcare, education, construction and tactile technology.
Scale: up to £35k for 6 businesses
Closes: 18 August 2015
More info on: innovateuk.org
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Public funding calls
Key feature: This Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) themed competition seeks research proposals to develop a prototype solution to provide an unstructured and open-source data analytics platform for defence.
Scale: £250,000 of funding is available for this Phase 1 competition, with a further £2 million potentially available for Phase 2.
Closes: 13 August 2015
More info on: innovateuk.org
Open source big data insight
Public funding calls
Key feature: This Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) themed competition seeks to address the challenge of providing information about the layout and situation inside a building using novel techniques, remotely.
Scale: £650,000 of funding is available for this Phase 1 competition.
Closes: 10 September 2015
More info on: innovateuk.org
What’s inside that building?
Public funding calls
Key feature: This CDE themed competition seeks research proposals for innovative approaches to improve the way humans interact with data to allow them to understand what’s going on in cyberspace.
Scale: £500,000 of funding is available for Phase 1 of this competition.
Closes: 10 September 2015
More info on: innovateuk.org
Understand and interact with cyberspace
Public funding calls
Key feature: Investment to stimulate the development of innovative new products, services and systems that disrupt the institutional long-term care model. This SBRI competition is open to large enterprises, SMEs, micro businesses, entrepreneurs, third sector, public and private sector.
Scale:
• Up to £4m
Closes: 26 August 2015
More info on: innovateuk.org
The long-term care revolution national challenge
Public funding calls
Key feature: Investment in collaborative research and development projects to stimulate innovation in response to Malaysia’s urbanisation challenges.
Scale: Up to £14.4m
Closes: 30 September 2015
More info on: innovateuk.org
Malaysia-UK Research and Innovation Bridges Competition
Public funding calls
Key feature: Innovate UK is to invest up to £10 million in collaborative research and development and feasibility studies to accelerate the commercialisation of highly innovative technologies for civil aerospace.
Scale: Up to £10m
Briefing: There will be a webinar briefing event for potential applicants on 15 July 2015.
Closes: 9 September 2015
More info on: innovateuk.org
Game-changing technologies for aerospace
Public funding calls
Key feature: Investment of up to £1m in innovative research and development projects centred on the emerging cluster of digital media businesses in Edinburgh.Scale:
• Funding of up to 70% of eligible costs for industrial research projects, with estimated project sizes ranging between £100,000 and £120,000.
Closes: 26 August 2015
More info on: innovateuk.org
Edinburgh digital media Launchpad
Public funding calls
Key feature: Investment in feasibility studies to stimulate innovation across four enabling technology areas that underpin future UK growth: advanced materials; biosciences; electronics, sensors and photonics; and information and communication technology (ICT).
Scale: up to £3m
Closes: 2 September 2015
More info on: innovateuk.org
Technology inspired innovation
Public funding calls
Key feature: The H2020 programme is the major funding opportunity for R&D initiatives across Europe running up until 2020. There is a strong emphasis on creative industries, design and digital technologies. All calls will be published in October 2015.
Info days: ICT 2015 – Lisbon, 20-22 OctoberThe key EC Info Day of 2015 for all calls under ICT (under which many are relevant to creative, digital and design businesses). A great way to meet potential partners, programme officers and to find out more about calls. Registration is free but fills up fast.
KTN will be running a number of events in London and Europe in 2015-16 to help UK businesses learn more about relevant calls and to help find partners to build consortia. More info on the KTN Creative, Digital & Design portal.
H2020
Public funding calls
Key feature: Innovation voucher scheme funding for start-up, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to work with an external expert to gain the knowledge to innovate and grow.
Scale:
• Up to £5k voucher for SMEs
Closes: 20 October 2015, 12:00
More info on: innovateuk.org
Innovation Vouchers – Round 13
Public funding calls
Smart 2015/16 – Round 3
Key feature: A grant scheme which offers funding to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to engage in R&D projects in the strategically important areas of science, engineering and technology.
Scale:• Proof of market - up to £25k - 60% of project cost• Proof of concept - up to £100k - 60% of project cost• Prototype development - up to £250k - up to 45% of
project cost
Closes: 24 September 2015
More info on: innovateuk.org
Creative England film production funding
Key feature: Creative England now offers two strands of film production funding for both feature and high-end TV drama.
• Lottery-based Production Fund: this is targeted at feature films with budgets of up to £2m and looking to experiment with innovative approaches; the fund has doubled from £500K to £1m for 2014/2015.
• West Midlands Production Fund: invests in the production of feature films and high-end TV drama from companies based in the West Midlands as well as from producers looking to establish a base to film in the region. Circa £4m funding available for 2015, with a maximum investment of £1m per project.
More info at creativeengland.co.uk
Public funding calls
Other public funding
• Creative Europe - here you can find relevant information concerning funding opportunities within the Creative Europe programme.
• Arts Council of Wales – offer a selection of arts grants for creative professionals and organisations.
• Wellcome Trust Arts Awards – offer two levels of funding to encourage collaboration between arts and science.
• Screen Yorkshire – Yorkshire Content Fund – production finance available; can invest £1m+ in individual film or TV dramas that will be in production by December 2015.
• Arts Impact Fund - a new £7million initiative offering repayable finance to arts organisations working in England.
Other public funding• Creative Industry Finance - Delivered by Creative United and funded
by Arts Council England, this programme is designed to assist creative and cultural enterprises in securing access to loan finance from £2,500 upwards.
• Funding Central and Finance Funder - Online guide to over 4,000 grants, contracts and other forms of finance: fully searchable based on finance type, scale and your geographical location; especially good for businesses seeking charitable or grant funding.
• Creative Scotland Open Project Funding - This fund supports the arts, screen and creative industries, with projects that help them explore, realise and develop their creative potential.
• Creative Skillset - Creative Skillset directs collective investment through the Skills Investment Fund to create new and innovative training in priority skills and in-demand roles to ensure growth in the UK’s Creative Industries.
Public Investment
Nesta Impact Investment Fund
Key feature: An equity investment fund investing in social ventures with innovative products or services that are addressing some of the UK’s most pressing challenges. Investments are made in areas that tackle:
• the health and wellbeing of an ageing population• the educational attainment and employability of children and
young people• the social and environmental sustainability of communities.
Scale: between £150k - £1m
Closes: on-going
More info on: Nesta Investments
Public Investment
Arts Impact Fund
Key feature: Funded by Arts Coucil England, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Nesta, the Arts Impact Fund is a new £7million initiative set up to demonstrate the potential for social investment in arts. It offers repayable finance to arts organisations working in England that can show how they are sustainable, have great artistic ambitions and have a positive impact on society in at least one of the following areas: citizenship & community, young people & educational attainment, health & wellbeing.Scale: between £150k - £600k
Closes: on-going
More info on: Arts Impact Fund
Private financing
Balderton has a track record of helping entrepreneurs build substantial businesses – with more $250m+ exits in the past five years than any other European venture firm
Connect Ventures, London – invest in mobile, internet and digital media businesses; invest at the early stage and focus on seed investments; investment size ranges from £200K-£600k
Index Ventures, London, San Francisco & Geneva – venture capital firm making investments in information technology and life sciences companies, since 1996 they have teamed up with technology entrepreneurs in more than 30 countries
Private financing
Notion Capital, London – invest in B2B Cloud & SaaS companies who have sustained 100% Year-over-Year growth; investment areas include adtech, communications and collaboration tools, ecommerce, enterprise software, fintech and security; portfolio raised over £200m in 2014
Hoxton Ventures, partners with founders seeking to invent new market categories or transform large, existing industries; their sweet spot is internet, mobile and software startup investing - up to $2m
The Business Finance Guide, expertise from over a million members in businesses, finance providers and advisory firms and organisations
Private financing
• Better Business Finance is an excellent tool for identifying the right type of finance at all stages of a business as well as identifying providers who can help. This section provides a searchable directory of information about the members of the UK Business Angels Association, what services they provide and how to contact them.
• British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association provides an explanation of different types of financing and other resources for entrepreneurs.
• The UK Business Angels Association is the national trade association representing angel and early-stage investment in the UK.
Other financing mechanismsCrowdfunder.co.uk – UK’s largest crowdfunding network having launched 1000’s of projects and raised over £2m, platform launched by KEO digital and partners include Nesta and Creative England
Funding Circle – an online marketplace which allows savers to lend money directly to SMEs; the first site to use peer-to-peer lending for business funding in the UK; as of February 2014 Funding Circle has facilitated £223 in loans to SMEs
Crowd2Fund – a crowdfunding platform designed to enable a range of funding options, from loans to equity
SyndicateRoom – equity crowdfunding platform for investing in UK startups backed by experience business angels
Launching a new business?• The Open Data Institute runs a start-up programme that
helps start-ups build business models around open data
• Tech City UK offers advice and support to start-ups looking for guidance in and around London. It has launched its Digital Business Academy. Tech City UK can also endorse visa applications to help recruit talent to Britain.
• Innovate UK - IC tomorrow connects start-ups and SMEs with leading commercial partners and investors, through funded contests, events, and strategic matchmaking opportunities.
• Transmit Start Ups provide financial support and mentoring to creative and digital entrepreneurs that would not normally be available via traditional banking relationships.
Launching a new business?• School for Creative Start-ups - delivers programmes that
teach people how to start and run better businesses.
• AIM Start Up Loans - Government supported start-up loans for the Creative Industries.
• Seedcamp is a London based accelerator that provides startups with seed money, mentorship, office space, support over a year long programme.
• The British Business Angels Association can help put you in touch with relevant business angel investors
Are you an existing business seeking non-financial advice or support?
• Nesta’s creative business mentor network offers ambitious businesses looking to grow one-one mentoring with some of the creative digital sector’s most successful leaders
• The UKTI offers advice to help with exporting
• Tech City UK can help advise on inward investment
• The Digital Catapult can help you showcase your business
Are you an existing business seeking advice or support?
• Subsidised costs to work with a specialist to build and deliver business growth – GrowthAccelerator
• Use the IP Health check to identify commercial IP in your business
• AngelList – helps source angel investors
• Interactive Scotland is a Scottish Enterprises project providing specialist expert advice to all Digital and Creative Businesses across Scotland
• Grant Thornton provide a specialist service for R&D tax relief/ credits claims
Personal Data and Trust Network
A digital business network to build and nurture a community that brings together industry, the public sector, funders, research organisations and innovators to support the UK in becoming the global leader in trust and responsible innovation with personal data.
For more information and to join, visit the Digital Catapult website
Training and skills
• Training in Open Data from the Open Data Institute
• Digital Business Academy – via Tech City
• Digital Project Management – via @IABUK
• Digital Acceleration – via @hyperisland_uk
• Digital training – via @Econsultancy – e-marketing courses
Develop your skills with these world-class courses:
Useful reports/ market research
• Nesta – Creativity vs Robots
• Nesta – Skills of the Datavores: Talent and the data revolution
• Digital Catapult – Trust in Personal Data: A UK Review
• Government Office for Science – Internet of Things Review
• ICO’s - guide to good data protection practice
• AoP’s - Digital Landscape 2015 report
Useful reports/ market research contd.• Ernst & Young - Landscape of UK Fin-tech report
• GP Bullhound – European Billion Dollar Companies 2015
• CB Insights & KPMG - Venture Pulse Q2’15 (Global Analysis of Venture Funding)
• Nesta – 8 trends in alternative finance
• ICAEW – Corporate Financier June 2015
• Tech City – Future Fifty