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Who we work with

Digital Catapult is the UK's leading advanced digital technology innovation centre. We drive early adoption, making UK businesses more competitive and productive, to help grow the UK economy.

Unlocking digital growth in the UK economy

Digital Catapult is the UK's leading agency for the early adoption of advanced digital technologies. Through innovation programmes and facilities, we drive productivity and growth for UK companies.

Creative industries

The UK's creative industries are world leading. Digital Catapult is helping the sector to create new markets, invest in technology R&D and begin using advanced digital technologies such as virtual, augmented and mixed reality systems, as well as blockchain, smart contracts, 5G and AI.

Manufacturing 

The early adoption of advanced digital technologies has the potential to grow UK manufacturing, creating jobs and increasing productivity. In line with the UK Government’s Made Smarter Review, Digital Catapult is helping shape the vision for the future of UK manufacturing, creating trailblazers and demonstrating the value that these technologies can bring to the sector.

IoT hardware from prototype to production

This guide aims to provide orientation for an increasing number of UK entrepreneurs, startups and scaleups who are keen to launch hardware based IoT products and services. 

 Unlocking the potential of creative content

CreativeXR gives creative talent the opportunity to experiment with immersive technologies to create new experiences that inspire audiences

CreativeXR

A 20 week accelerator programme empowering startups to discover, develop and test next generation connectivity with 5G facilities and experts

5G Testbed Accelerator Programme

Discovering next generation VR and AR companies

Supporting early stage businesses developing innovative and commercially-focused augmented reality and virtual reality products

Augmentor

Providing the tools and expertise to turn potential into reality

Machine Intelligence Garage

Digital Catapult has launched research into the impact of 5G on the UK’s manufacturing sector, uncovering the potential of 5G technology for industry and setting out recommendations for 5G to tackle connectivity challenges.

Exploring the future of connectivity and 5G in UK manufacturing

Made in 5G: exploring the future of connectivity and 5G in UK manufacturing

Discover the potential of future networks technologies

A unique facility that is fast forwarding adoption of future networks technologies to deliver value to industry

Future Networks Lab

Digital Catapult offers facilities such as Dimension and the Immersive Labs and runs innovation programmes including Augmentor and CreativeXR. This provides unrivalled access to the latest developments in virtual and augmented reality and supports the development of a strong immersive ecosystem in the UK. 

Digital Catapult is opening up the power of AI technologies in four ways: providing access to compute power expertise, offering experimentation space, supporting corporations to accelerate AI adoption and working with policymakers and academics to ensure the UK takes the lead in transparent and ethical AI applications.

Digital technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) demand secure and reliable connectivity that uses less power at a lower cost. We provide much needed testbed facilities and innovation programmes to help businesses explore, test and innovate using future network technologies including 5G and low power wide area networks (LPWAN).

Future focus

Digital Catapult also has future scoping and experimentation activities which explore underpinning technologies such as cyber security and new directions like distributed ledgers, blockchain and smart contracts.

Digital Catapult works with businesses of all sizes to increase the adoption of advanced digital technologies.

Digital Catapult introduces the investment community to talented technologists and early-stage businesses that are developing advanced technology solutions with commercial potential within the manufacturing and creative industries.

Accelerating the adoption of advanced digital technologies emerging from research by bringing academics and researchers together with industry and startups.