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Technium Digital at a glance

Part of the Technium network, Technium Digital provides the perfect environment for young technology businesses to turn their ideas into marketable commercial propositions.

Technium Digital is ideal for young technology businesses creating commercial propositions that exploit scientific and high performance software, sophisticated next generation optical and wireless communication systemss and graphics software. Sophisticated software packages, electronic systems and IT services are typical products of these entrepreneurs.

Technium Digital Fast Facts

  • Technium Digital is located in the heart of campus at Swansea University.
  • 3,500 sq m of accommodation arranged over three floors includes one floor housing fourteen incubator units.  The remaining space is allocated to specialist research laboratories and development laboratories.
  • The ‘SGI-Fakespace’ Virtual Reality Studio enables fast prototyping.
  • The Agilent laboratory facilitates sophisticated communications design and testing.
  • Technium Digital is linked to the satellite incubation facility,  Technium Digital@Sony which is co-located with Sony’s UK technology centre at Pencoed.
  • The Centre for Advanced Software Technologies (CAST) with its expertise in communications, software, computer graphics and multi-media systems is co-located at Technium Digital.
  • The Centre for computation and simulation is located on campus at Swansea University. Its expertise in computational simultation of engineering problems, such as structural analysis, thermal analysis and aerodynamics.
  • Academic expertise associated with Technium Digital includes leading academics such as Professors:
       Jaffa Elmirghani, chair of optical communications
       Phil Mawby, power electronics
       Nigel Weatherill, pro-vice chancellor, research
       Marc Clement, chair of innovation
       Min Chen, volume graphics

    • Technium Digital Strengths

    Technium is an integrated network and it is increasingly apparent that there are many synergies between individual Technium centres.  The future will see technology convergence in the development of new products and as an integrated network, Technium is well placed to capitalise on this trend.  It offers its companies exposure to expertise, facilities and equipment across a range of sectors and technologies.  For instance, Technium Digital’s virtual reality studio is particularly relevant to a range of sectors such as automotive and life sciences.

    With direct links to Swansea University’s school of engineering and computer science, Technium Digital’s strengths lie in the exploitation of scientific and high performance computation, next-generation optical and wireless communications, together with graphics software and the manipulation of ‘high volume’ digital graphical data.

    StrengthExamples
    Scientific softwareSimulation software that solves complex problems
    High performance softwareSoftware that solves scientific problems that require high capacity processing power
    Communications softwareNext generation optical and wireless networking systems
    Graphics software and the manipulation of digital dataVirtual Reality systems and software that improve the delivery of high volumes of digital content