Consultancy to Create a Testbed for Technology Demonstrators

The Catapult is a technology and innovation centre set up by Government to advance innovation, to grow UK companies to make cities better. We have observed that large scale enabling technology infrastructure is expensive to deploy and maintain, while not necessarily providing the best solution for all applications or the flexibility to evolve with new technology and accommodate new applications in the future. Many technology demonstrators and testbeds fall down here with insufficient real use cases to sustain them. Catapult wish to invest in a piece of action research to explore the enabling infrastructure, governance and cultural structures to encourage experimentation and demonstrat…