DTI Mechanisms for Encouraging Innovation

This presentation describes the UK Department of Trade and Industry's mechanisms for encouraging innovation in appropriate, supportive technology for the elderly. In particular, the DTI, the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), who jointly manage the Intelligent Transport Systems and Services Innovation Platform, have released details of a funding initiative, called Future Intelligent Transport Systems (FITS), for academic/industry multidisciplinary research and innovation consortia to enable UK industry and universities to work in collaboration to address key research issues in the longer-term development of the UK transport system.