The document discusses the Future Cities Catapult, which is one of seven innovation centers in the UK that aims to commercialize innovations and take them to markets around the world. Specifically, the Future Cities Catapult focuses on addressing challenges facing urban areas, such as increasing populations, inequality, and resource pressures. It plans to create a market for solutions to urban issues by establishing a housing lab for data analytics and modeling, building digital strategy demonstrators in cities, and creating an economic impact database to prove viability and demand to businesses and cities.

1. FUTURE CITIES
CATAPULT
REMOVING BARRIERS AND
CREATING OPPORTUNITIES
DR CATHY MULLIGAN, HEAD OF DIGITAL STRATEGY AND
ECONOMICS
RESEARCH FELLOW, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
@API_ECONOMICS

2. W H O W E A R E & W H A T W E
D O
2
THE
CATAPULT
FAMILY
SEVEN WORLD-LEADING
INNOVATION CENTRES
MAKING CONCEPTS COMMERCIAL
TAKING UK INNOVATIONS TO
THE REST OF THE WORLD
OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY
Glasgow
HIGH VALUE MANUFACTURING
AFRC - Strathclyde
CPI - Wilton/Sedgefield
AMRC & NAMRC - Rotherham
WMG - Coventry
MTC - Ansty
NCC - Bristol
TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
Milton Keynes
CONNECTED DIGITAL
ECONOMY
London
FUTURE CITIES
London
CELL THERAPY
London
SATELLITE APPLICATIONS
London

3. THE FUTURE
IS URBAN

4. OVERWHELMING PRESSURE TO
DO MORE WITH LESS
INCREASING
POPULATION
HIGHER
INEQUALITY
RESOURCE
PRESSURES
+
+

5. …BUT
IT FACES
CHALLENGES
THE
FUTURE
IS URBAN…

6. MARKET
DEVELOPMENT
AND / OR
CREATION IS
NOT SIMPLE

7. FACILITIES
CENTRAL LONDON
INNOVATION
CENTRE
Housing our Cities Lab:
a facility for business,
SMEs, cities to do data
analytics, modelling,
visualisation
To provide evidence,
support innovation &
help unlock the market

8. BUILDING DIGITAL
STRATEGY IN CITIES
• Building a series of demonstrator test-
beds in cities
• Creating the world’s first database of
economic impact of ICT in cities
• Proving the market exists and that the
economics are viable for SMEs and cities
alike

9. MARKET
CREATION IN
THREE
(RELATIVELY)
SIMPLE
STEPS

10. 1. Digital Economy
Fundamentals
3. Global
DEMAND-DRIVEN
Standards
2. Appropriate,
correctly targeted
Technologies
Market
Build the right
business case
Build the right
ecosystem
Build the right
stuff

11. THANK-YOU
@API_ECONOMICS