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

Major

Small

Total

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