Dec 18, 2015
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
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