Scale-up your small business with digital technologies.
This STFC programme is funded by Innovate UK and will offer SMEs collaborative projects with our team of experts to help them adopt and scale up using HPC, AI and frontier technologies.
They’re particularly keen to connect with high-growth SMEs who want to use digital technology more effectively in:
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Clean Energy Industries
- Creative Industries
- Defence
- Financial Services
- Life Sciences
The programme will deliver targeted innovation support activities and digital asset creation by delivering collaborative projects with SME’s tailored and centred around 4 key themes:
- Building solid technical foundations: getting the right infrastructure, data systems and architecture in place to support growth
- Smarter decision-making in complex systems: using AI and digital technologies to make faster, more reliable decisions in real time
- AI that understands your industry: applying AI and other frontier technologies in a way that reflects the specific context and needs of your sector
- Preparing for emerging technologies: understanding and safely adopting technologies like quantum computing before they become mainstream
