Businesses and academics pitch research ideas at CreaTech Innovation Lab
On 22 January, Creative Manchester and The University青瓜视频檚 Business Engagement team welcomed teams of academics and CreaTech industry professionals to the third iteration of the CreaTech Innovation Lab.
The CreaTech Innovation Lab is a half-day workshop convened by the research platform and the University青瓜视频檚 Business Engagement team with facilitation by the creative consultancy .
In the course of one afternoon the teams worked on developing a research project focused on a challenge brief provided by the participating companies.
The event brought together several businesses, including , and BandShare - working within creative, cultural and digital sectors with a team of academics to inform their challenge brief by new knowledge, technology or methodology stemming from academic research.
Over the course of the workshop teams developed tangible project plans to pitch for seed funding to develop the project.
Throughout the afternoon the teams worked through a dynamic, creative process of defining their problem and generating a range of solutions. By the end each team concluded with an optimal project plan and pitch, which was presented to an expert panel of judges for seed funding, with an emphasis on projects with the potential for larger collaborations in the future.
With the third CreaTech Innovation Lab completed the project teams now look towards the next six months to develop research addressing the businesses青瓜视频� challenge briefs and scope out future opportunities with the University.
Our heartful thanks go out to our panel of expert judges, industry and academic participants and our facilitators from Future Everything.
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