DTI Opportunities

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DTI Opportunities
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The November Call - details

• Some 80M has been made available in 9 priority
  areas
• 1. Energy technologies
  7M is available
• 2. Design, simulation modelling 17M is
  available.
• 3. Micro nanotechnology 15M is
  available.
• 4. Smart materials related structures 7M
  is available
• 5. Pervasive computing, networks and sensors
  9M is available
• 6. Bio-based industrial products processes
  7M is available.
• 7. Waste management minimisation 10M is
  available
• 8. Imaging Technologies 6M is available
• 9. Optoelectronics and disruptive electronics
  6M is available
• Typical project size is 2M - 5M spread over 1-5
  years, but smaller and shorter projects are
  possible. The deadline for submitting a 5-page
  outline application is 7 February 2005.
• If successful, project teams will be invited to
  submit full applications on 7 March with
  responses required by 3 May 2005

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Summary

• There are some possibilities for info storage
  related projects in other areas (Pervasive
  Computing and Design Simulation Modelling
  perhaps) but I think they will struggle against
  other proposals that fit more centrally within
  the detailed criteria under each area. This is
  one of the reasons for us wanting to get more
  overt reference to Information Storage into the
  call for next April
• Ian Williams DTI 10 December 2004

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Next steps

• It is our intention to propose that Information
  Storage (hopefully covering everything from
  fundamental materials work, right through to high
  level systems work) is specifically included in
  the next call, currently scheduled for April
  2005. In this regard, it would be extremely
  useful to us if DS-Net could help us reinforce
  the message that we need to convey to our
  Technology Strategy Board (TSB) of the importance
  of information storage technologies and the
  impact that improvements (achieved through
  collaborative RD projects) could have on a wide
  range of applications and, perhaps most
  importantly, how UK-based companies and
  universities could benefit from the additional
  support from Government.

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Our action..

• For understandable reasons the TSB's choice of
  technological priorities is being strongly driven
  by the potential impact on the UK economy so it
  is becoming increasingly important that we have a
  well developed economic (market driven) case to
  support any purely technical arguments for
  inclusion. It is in this area that, hopefully,
  the industry involvement in DS-Net can be most
  useful in providing up to date information about
  the size and importance of existing and future
  markets for info storage products and systems.
• The next formal meeting of the TSB is scheduled
  for early February next year so we are aiming to
  get as much information as possible together to
  present to them by mid to late January. I
  appreciate that this does not give the network a
  great deal of time but any information you can
  get to us by then will be gratefully appreciated.