Annual Engagement & Impact Report
Digital Catapult drives the early adoption of advanced digital technologies to make the UK economy more competitive and productive
We are building a culture that drives the early adoption and application of advanced digital technologies in the UK
600 +
small businesses: working hand in hand with entrepreneurs
120 +
industrial collaborations
+£ 100 m
total investment raised
by 90 companies after engaging with Digital
Catapult in the last year
3000
companies used our nationwide network of testbeds and labs
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We provide physical and digital facilities for experimentation and testing
We discover new ways to solve big challenges in the manufacturing and creative industries
We convene and deliver collaborative research and development
We work with the two sectors where we can support the use of advanced digital technologies to make the biggest impact: manufacturing and creative industries.
We’re the only innovation organisation with a specific remit for the creative industries, putting the wow into future storytelling.
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Accelerating the number of trailblazer organisations in UK manufacturing and their supply chains working with advanced digital technologies.
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Digital Catapult helps trailblazer companies to develop and demonstrate innovative and successful advanced digital technology products, services, experiences and business models for UK industry to emulate. To do this, we focus on ambitious programmes in artificial intelligence and machine learning, future networks, immersive technologies and blockchain.
Our rapidly expanding AI programme accelerates adoption of artificial intelligence by industry and is helping to grow the UK’s machine learning ecosystem.
Digital Catapult is driving the development of digital infrastructure with a programme of future networks activity that takes research from university labs to commercial reality with our projects focused on IoT and 5G.
Digital Catapult is making the UK the best place in the world to produce immersive content and applications using virtual, augmented, mixed reality and haptics.