At the core of the platform will be two specialist facilities – an innovation studio and a project prototyping centre, both will have project specific funding available. The IP created in these two facilities will be exploited though a unique investment and incubation model.
These pages are intended to provide information to our stakeholders during the development of Platform Alpha. Register your interest and support to enable us to secure the intervention funding required to complement our own significant investment in establishing Platform Alpha.
Our vision is to create a world-class centre of pre and near-market innovation, concept development, IP generation and start-ups that together act as a magnet for talent in interactive entertainment, related converged-channel and multi-platform applications and also translate into commercial outputs with significant economic benefits.
Innovation Studio
A hub of interdisciplinary research and development partnerships working with public and private sector partners in near to market and next generation areas that combine media with generic innovation technologies. More...
Project Centre
A second, overlapping hub of project specific prototype development activity based on the experience of running Dare to be Digital that serves a number of specific core partners through time limited, tight deadline projects More...
Funding & Incubation
A co-investment fund and incubation unit with an investment and support mechanism developed to provide the appropriate level of investor confidence to facilitate investment in start-ups arising from the two hubs and where the IP is largely content centred. More...