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Briefing
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- Open Innovation Challenge – Manchester’s City Verve announced Open Innovation Challenge, contest for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop Internet-of-Things (IoT) smart city solutions for city of Manchester
- Categories – Include healthcare, transport, and energy, as well as wild card category that will cover IoT smart city solutions that do not fit in any of three main categories
- Incentives – Include £5,000 grant, as well as access to Cisco’s global sales channels, product development and business classes from Manchester Science Partnership and Growth Studio, and investors
- Test Bed – Startups will also get to test their IoT solutions in real life environment
- Timeline – Application ends February 2018, after which selected startups will be announced March 2018; challenge will then commence over eight-week period from March to May 2018
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Accelerator
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Market Disruption
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Sector
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Energy, Government (excluding military), Healthcare/Health Sciences, Transportation and Logistics
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Organization
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City Verve
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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January 22, 2018
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