Data-Driven Innovation Initiative Edinburgh

Skip to content Image of DDI logo Sectors What we do About us News & Events Contact us Our DDI hubs The Data-Driven Innovation initiative has helped establish five hubs at the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University – creating a regional power-house for collaboration with industry partners. The hubs house expertise and facilities to help 10 industrial sectors become more innovative through data. Bayes Centre National Robotarium Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) Usher Institute Easter Bush Edinburgh International Data Facility Bayes Centre Opened in October 2018, the Bayes Centre provides an innovative environment to support the co-location of up to 600 world-leading applied data science researchers, students, and collaborating staff from organisations across the public, private and third sectors. The Centre is also home to the Post-Covid AI Accelerator, the Data Science Technology and Innovation online PGT programme and coordinates the internationally acclaimed EIE programme. Focussing on the facilitation of translational research and development, the Bayes Centre connects industry partners to academic and research expertise from across the institution, as well as organisations like the Alan Turing Institute and the Data Lab. Fifteen-year Target Expand Funding Profile Expand Contact Details Expand Bayes Centre National Robotarium The National Robotarium will be co-located on the Heriot-Watt University campus, having access to the resources of both Heriot-Watt and the University of Edinburgh. It will meet existing and future industrial need by accelerating the generation of knowledge and flow of technologies into the economy through targeted research, industry collaboration, living laboratories, demonstrator and incubation facilities. The National Robotarium will provide leading-edge facilities to co‐locate researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs and educators to deliver the UK’s leading international centre for the generation of new, smart robotics companies. Fifteen-year Target Expand Funding Profile Expand Contact Details Expand Researcher at the National Robotarium Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) The EFI will be a global centre for multi-disciplinary, challenge-based DDI research, teaching and societal impact. The biggest challenges that the world faces are complex and interconnected. Solving them requires multiple orientations and understandings. EFI’s approach brings the arts, humanities and the social sciences into contiguity with data science, natural sciences and with medicine – to co-create deeply interdisciplinary models. The first major programme is focused on the challenges and opportunities posed by the revolution in data, digital and artificial intelligence. EFI will help to transform the application, governance and benefits delivered from the use of data. It will do this by bringing together a range of academic disciplines, third party organisations, and sectors including financial services, cultural industries and the public sector, that are dealing directly with these challenges. Fifteen-year Target Expand Funding Profile Expand Contact Details Expand Image of the EFI Usher Institute Through the application of data science, the Usher Institute will aim to develop innovative and financially sustainable models of health and social care that improve lives. Located at Edinburgh BioQuarter, the Institute will become a world-leading hub health and social care researchers and scientists will collaborate with colleagues from public, private and third sectors organisations to deliver data-driven advances. The Institute will drive health and social care innovation at scale by integrating the activities of: clinicians, life scientists and data scientists to identify new, co-produced insights in areas of challenge; and industry and public sector organisations to extract, apply and commercialise expert knowledge. The Institute will draw on Scotland’s mature and world-leading health data assets, and well-established governance and data-sharing protocols developed in partnership with the National Health Service and the Scottish Government. Fifteen-year Target Expand Funding Profile Expand Contact Details Expand HASSELL_UsherINSTITUTE_ViewB4_Update_Final Easter Bush An efficient agricultural sector is critical to social well-being; by 2050, global agricultural production will need to increase by 50% to feed a growing global population. By applying data technologies that enable farmers and related industries to improve food production, veterinary care, digital agriculture (Agritech) will be critical to increasing global food supply. The project will seek to leverage existing world-class research institutes and commercialisation facilities to help Easter Bush become a global location of Agritech and veterinary excellence. It will do this through a campus-wide network that will generate and collate, in real time, a multitude of local and global data, (e.g. veterinary activities, animal genetics, food species genetics, soil condition, weather and market drivers). It will also collaborate with partners to use this information to realise the potential of having the right food species, and the right products, in the right field at the right time, to maximise agricultural productivity. As part of this project, there is also a proposed A701 relief road and A702 link, which represents a significant investment in the key infrastructure needed to support the major growth planned along the A701 corridor in Mid Lothian. Fifteen-year Target Expand Funding Profile Expand Contact Details Expand Image of chickens Edinburgh International Data Facility The Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) provides the enabling data infrastructure platform for the wider DDI initiative and its hubs. The DDI activities require an extremely powerful, high capacity and flexible infrastructure, capable of responsive delivery of an expanding range of complex and bespoke data and analytical services. By leveraging prior investments in the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), and its Advanced Computing Facility (ACF), the EIDF represents a practical, flexible and cost-effective approach to the delivery of diverse technological requirements. 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