By Tracy Hildreth
In the article I am going to discuss the reasons why you should consider investing within the games and animation sector in the North East of England. Teesside University is ranked as the best new university for teaching quality and has more than 1,000 students on the UK's fastest growing computer games courses. It has entered into an agreement with Shanghai University to collaborate on various programmes in this field, based at the Middlesbrough campus.
The region's Centre of Excellence for digital media and technology has set up a special conference for games and animation. This brings publishers and games industry experts to North East England to work with the region's companies. It is also promoting the region's games sector, offering support for attendance at international trade conferences, and is identifying research and skills gap. Games clusters create around £15 million of turnover and employing nearly 400 people. The region is home to some of Europe's most innovative companies responsible for developing internationally successful titles. This capability is strengthened by the world-renowned games and animation courses taught at universities in the region.
The University of Teesside's School of Computing is ranked as the best new university for teaching quality and has the most students and staff of any UK university in the field of visualization with over 4000 students on courses including computer animation and games
University of Northumbria has a programmer focus and is equipped with industry standard games console development kits. The Centre for Design Research provides a design practice to industry including use of animation and new media in new product development. University of Newcastle has expertise in distributed systems which will become increasingly important in a networked world with the growth of online and collaborative gaming. University of Sunderland has the Sony Media Centre, a joint venture with Sony for training in media studies in a £9m state of-the-art facility with studios, workshops and editing suites.
Support is on offer to companies at different stages of the investment process from early stage to new technology and high growth. Companies may be able to access government schemes including location based funding as well as grants and tax credits for undertaking research and development to aid in Business Opportunities UK.
If you are looking for a business opportunities UK or somewhere to expand your business then consider the North East of England, where there is highly skilled labour and business opportunities, backing from the universities and an excellent infrastructure.
Expertise and support organisations place North East England in a unique position to support companies in the commercialisation of research and getting new products to market through Business opportunities UK.
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1 comment:
It seems that there are more oppurtunities for games and animation business in UK because, North East England has a growing cluster of successful computer games companies employing around 400 people a year. Some of the world’s best known games were designed right here in the region. Games clusters create around £15 million of turnover and employing many people. Hence, there is a need for highly skilled labour and business opportunities, backing from the universities and an excellent infrastructure.
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