Steve Flinter’s blog

Silicon Republic is reporting that the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) has just funded its first tranche of projects.

There’s nothing on the NDRC website at the moment, but I presume that the announcement there will follow shortly. NDRC is an interesting body - it’s a private company, wholly owned by the Government, and set up to facilitate what they call “translational research” projects. Translational research is a term often reserved for translating medical research into clinical practice. In the case of NDRC, they are using the term much more broadly - namely as the process of translating academic, basic research into industry projects and to fulfil an industry need.

While not directly associated with SFI, many of the researchers involved with NDRC are also SFI Principal Investigators. It will be very interesting to watch NDRC as these projects develop and evolve.

Well done to Ben and his team in getting the first few projects out the door.

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