Smart Nano NI member spotlight - Digital Catapult, the UK’s leading advanced digital technology innovation centre
Digital Catapult is the UK’s leading advanced digital technology innovation centre. Through collaboration, knowledge and technology transfer, Digital Catapult Northern Ireland is inspiring innovation across traditional businesses and sectors whilst providing support to some of Northern Ireland’s most innovative tech startups. Understanding sectoral technology needs enables the Digital Catapult NI team to partner with local government and businesses to realise the ambition of a tech driven economy.
As part of the Smart Nano NI consortium, Digital Catapult is proud to bring its expertise in engaging high quality technology businesses to address the digital adoption challenges faced by organisations across the region. This will provide a boost to a high growth sector in both Northern Ireland and the UK as a whole, alongside significant experience in running accelerator programmes for emerging technology startups and scaleups from across the UK. The Digital Catapult team brings deep technical understanding of advanced digital technologies such as 5G and IoT networks, AI / Machine Learning and immersive technology, to help drive new economic opportunities for the region.
Developing a strong and sustainable innovation cluster in Northern Ireland will not only help to build industrial excellence locally, but will provide opportunities for NI tech consumers and providers of all sizes to expand across the UK and into the global market boosting economic growth.
The implications for the work of the consortium on the health and life sciences sectors are huge and the Digital Catapult team is excited about working with companies to innovate and investigate the potential impact of photonics and nanotech for other high growth sectors.
