Government pledges £6 million support for digital value chains
The Technology Strategy Board is to invest nearly £6 million in nine R&D projects and trials in a bid to show how co-operation between digital infrastructure providers, content producers, users and software developers should be transformed.
TSB chief executive Iain Gray cites projects as including integrating digital technology and processes from OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) through the supply chain in the automotive sector, and developing an open web-based community and cloud-based IT platform to provide software tools for healthcare commissioning.
"Creating and distributing digital information, content or services to customers requires the building of new, digital, value chains," asserts Gray.
"The British companies behind these cutting-edge development projects will show how they can improve or create such new digital value chains and networks, and will demonstrate how value can be created, and revenue earned, from information, content and services," he adds.
Companies involved to date are: American Express Services Europe, Exemplar Associates, Forensic Pathways, Idio, Jaguar Land Rover, Living PlanIT, Magellium, Sitekit and Wax Digital.
