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Catapulting innovations to market

Digital Economy Minister Ed Vaizey opens the Digital Catapult Centre and announces 3 more partnerships.

If you’re a UK digital entrepreneur you can now enjoy support, expertise and the use of new facilities to help take your great ideas to market.

The recently opened Digital Catapult Centre is a state-of-the art hub for innovative digital technologists, creatives, businesses and academia to showcase their products, connect and collaborate. It will also allow SMEs to innovate at speed and with less risk.

Opening the new facilities, Minister for the Digital Economy Ed Vaizey also announced 3 more digital partnerships – in Sunderland, Brighton and Bradford. They will support the London centre in creating thousands of new jobs and helping to increase innovation locally.

Mr Vaizey said:

It is an exciting time to be a tech business in the UK. Our digital economy is already one of the strongest markets in the world, valued at more than £100 billion.

Growth areas including the Internet of Things and digital creative industries are opening up a range of new opportunities for companies in the sector.

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