The Technology Strategy Board is to invest an indicative £5m in a programme to help digital content creators and rights holders realise and maximise the commercial return potential from their intellectual property (IP).

Opening in March 2009 the programme is looking for proposals to develop applications that can be deployed across the digital content sector to extend market opportunities and promote the commercial exploitation of IP for content creators and rights holders. Projects can include development of new business models; applications for improving access to collecting revenue from content; solutions to broaden access to content; and the development of tools to support new value chains, among others.

There will be two levels of application for projects above and below £100k in value, but in each case there must be clear collaboration between a number of organisations or institutions. To find out more go to www.innovateuk.org or register at https://www.technologyprogramme.org.uk to be able to download the necessary documents.