New Media Innovation Centre (NewMIC)

2. New Media Innovation Centre(NewMIC) AN INDUSTRY - UNIVERSITY - GOVERNMENT COLLABORATION

3. The Vision To support the growth of the new media industry in Western Canada through collaborative innovation initiatives

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

8. New Media Innovation Centre • Not-for-Profit Consortium • Industry-Academic-Government Collaboration • Based in Vancouver • Affiliated partners in Western Canada

9. New Media Innovation Centre • BCASI; National Research Council; TRLabs • SFU, TechBC, UBC, UVic, Emily Carr • Equipment Manufacturers • Network Providers • Application Developers • Artists

10. The NewMIC Innovation Centre • Equipment Manufacturers • Service Providers • New Media Developers

11. NewMIC Clusters • Electronic games • Telelearning • Electronic commerce • Multimedia networking • Web creation • Wireless internet applications • etc

12. NewMIC Programs • Research • Continuing education and training • Product Development • Incubation • Credit Education • Demonstration facilities

13. 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

14. 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 New Media Innovation Centre

15. Research Lab Personnel, Year 5 Total: 146

16. Projected 5-year Expenditures Total = $40M

17. Projected 5-year Revenues Total = $40M

18. Growth of Industry Sponsors

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