Innovation Connections

Tech North East

The definitive guide to the North East of England’s Digital and Information Technology ecosystem

Proto – the Emerging Technology Centre

PROTO is the first digital production facility of its kind in Europe.

They partner with animators, film makers and games developers to help them create exciting and meaningful digital content.

Proto offers 3D character, motion and audio capture in one unique place.

IoT Cluster North East

Promoting the development of #IoT #IIoT within the commercial, R&D and academic sectors in the North East of England

NIC-D National Innovation Centre for Data

The National Innovation Centre for Data is delivering key technical and practical data skills into organisations. This improves business competitiveness and drives growth by unleashing the huge potential for innovation offered by the explosive growth in digital data.

NIC-A National Innovation Centre for Ageing

Providing insights to brands and enterprise, Ageing IntelligenceTM is allowing business to capitalise on the longevity economy.

Leveraging the experience and expertise of older adults while harnessing big data, the UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing is uniquely positioned to optimise the opportunities provided by the demographic revolution.

This brings the ability to personalise user experiences and generate insights into customer needs and wants, and takes advantage of new opportunities generating new revenue streams.

Applying Ageing IntelligenceTM to data enables organisations to generate new insights and patterns and learn continuously from existing and real time data.

Networked and Ubiquitous Engineering (NUSE) Group

(Internet of Things)

The NUSE Group is based in the Urban Sciences Building and is part of Newcastle University School of Computing.

Charles Sellers is a Visiting Researcher with the NUSE Group and works in bringing the commercial word together with our fantastic academics delivering funded R&D projects.

Newcastle Helix

A landmark 24-acre hybrid city quarter in the centre of Newcastle, built for international tech and science businesses, the local community and residents.

Digital Catapult

The Digital Catapult North East Tees Valley (NETV) is one of three regional centres for innovation. Headed up by a central team based in London, the regional centres are strategically based around the UK to support local businesses as they adopt emerging technologies.

Established in 2015 and delivered by Sunderland Software City on behalf of the central Digital Catapult, the North East Tees Valley team support businesses from across the North of England to encourage the adoption of emerging technologies and educate on the potential impact that this can have on productivity and performance.

Water Hub

The Water Hub is a driver for change, enabling the sustainable use of the planet’s natural resources through creating collaborations between its network of partners, businesses and communities.

We are an open, passionate, creative team. We use our expertise and networks to shape opportunities, grow ideas, test products and deliver solutions to simultaneously grow business opportunities and deliver sustainable solutions to societal challenges.

Cybersecurity North East

Establishing the development of a Cyber Security Cluster within the commercial, R&D and academic sectors in the North East of England.