The Project Centre

The Project Centre is 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.

The Project Centre will have project income from partners with an intention to generate surplus. In time the Project Centre will generate some revenues from IP generation through licence and equity returns.

The Project Centre will also have some revenue streams from fee income for a specialist postgraduate award based on student achievement in a portfolio of real-world projects. There would be a significant focus on international recruitment at appropriate fee levels.

Outputs will include new IP, start-up teams with business plans or delivery of work-for hire consultancy/development outputs to client brief and also corporate spin outs.

Dare to be Digital has generated sponsorship and support from companies such as Microsoft, Disney, Electronic Arts, AMD, Blitz, Channel 4, Realtime Worlds, BBC, NESTA, Turner Broadcasting, NCR and Codemasters and it is likely that the project centre in Platform Alpha will appeal to a similar partnership profile.

Project Centre Floor Plan A floor plan of the proposed project centre. Click for a large version

A student beside his work station
The University of Abertay Dundee
Students at their workstations