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Digital innovation in the sharing economy contestInnovate UK is offering 6 businesses up to £30,000 (excluding VAT) each to encourage innovation in the sharing economy, across the themes of trust, tourism and travel, opening up new sectors, home improvement, construction, and data and analytics. The contest Through our IC tomorrow programme, we are looking for proposals from companies with innovative digital ideas relevant to the sharing economy. The companies will not only benefit from funding, but also have the opportunity to collaborate with commercial partners to accelerate development of their technologies. We want to see digital solutions with potential appeal to a wide commercial market. Successful applicants will be expected to trial their proposed solutions with their industry partners for at least 3 months. The challenges We are looking for innovative solutions to address one of our 6 contest challenges within the themes of trust, tourism and travel, opening up new sectors, home improvement, construction, and data and analytics. The solutions should explore ways of stimulating growth in digital innovation in the sharing economy. Click here for more information and how you can apply. Application deadline is 12th April 2016, 12:00. Award: Up to £30,000 for each project |
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Creativeworks London is one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations, to strengthen and diversify their collaborative research activities and increase the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.