New Media Innovation Centre

(NewMIC)

AN INDUSTRY - UNIVERSITY - GOVERNMENT COLLABORATION

The Vision

To support the growth of

the new media industry

in Western Canada

through collaborative innovation initiatives

What is New Media?

• Interactive communications that combine moving images and/or sound with graphics and text in digitized form

• The convergence, coordination and integration of multiple media to present information in interactive formats

• Interaction allows participants to navigate through material by following links or by immersing in an interactive environment called a virtual world

NewMIC’s Mandate

NewMIC will address the following issues:

• Attracting and retaining excellent faculty and graduate students in the area of new media

• Building excellence in new media innovation

• Creating more skilled IT workers and industry clusters

• Developing better industry-university collaboration for the purpose of technology transfer

• Encouraging the transfer and commercialization of technology through incubation support

• Attracting venture capital to the New Media industry

NewMIC Innovation Areas

NewMIC is an application-driven laboratory dealing with the design, creation and dissemination of information technology, tools and well-trained graduates in:

• education, including online distance learning, educational software, and authoring tools

• telecommunications, including wireless applications and services

• entertainment, including computer and video games, theme parks, film, TV, and music

• other major interactive multimedia networked appli-cations, including electronic commerce

New Media Innovation Centre

• Not-for-Profit Consortium

• Industry-Academic-Government Collaboration

• Based in Vancouver

• Affiliated partners in Western Canada

New Media Innovation Centre

• BCASI; National Research Council; TRLabs

• SFU, TechBC, UBC, UVic, Emily Carr

• Equipment Manufacturers

• Network Providers

• Application Developers

• Artists

The NewMIC Innovation Centre

• Equipment Manufacturers

• Service Providers

• New Media Developers

NewMIC Clusters

• Electronic games

• Telelearning

• Electronic commerce

• Multimedia networking

• Web creation

• Wireless internet applications

• etc

NewMIC Programs

• Research

• Continuing education and training

• Product Development

• Incubation

• Credit Education

• Demonstration facilities

NewMIC Outputs

• increased quality and quantity of faculty members and senior researchers available to the new media industry in Western Canada

• highly qualified personnel from undergraduate and graduate credit and non-credit (continuing education/training) programs

• hardware and software readily transferable to Canada’s Knowledge Intensive Industries and educational systems as well as to other countries

• the production, in cooperation with other BC Universities, Colleges and Institutes, of high quality courseware for distance and classroom learning in BC and beyond

• commercialization of new technology and creation of spin off companies

New Media Innovation Centre

RESEARCH LAB

• $40M over 5 Years

• Personnel >150

• 25,000 square feet

• Target: – 6 Major Sponsors

– 35 SMEs

LEARNING LAB

• Funded Normally

• >300 Students

• 10,000 square feet

• Linked to Research Lab via Faculty and Programs

• Linked to other Institutes

Research Lab Personnel, Year 5

41 Researchers 9 Admin Staff 6 Tech Staff90 Students

Total: 146

Projected 5-year Expenditures

PersonnelOperatingCapitalIn-KindReserve

Total = $40M

Projected 5-year Revenues

IndustryProvince/ASIWD/TRLabsNRCUniversityOther

Total = $40M

Growth of Industry Sponsors

05

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1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

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