Firms in South Yorkshire are set to get a leg up on the competition, as they gain access to the latest digital technologies at cut prices. Two of the world’s biggest employers in these areas, Eon and VBrick, are working with Doncaster College on a £4 million project called the Digital Knowledge Exchange.
Seminars are to be run in Barnsley, Sheffield, Doncaster and Rotherham, when SMEs can get advise on how they can best take advantage. Malcolm Kay, executive director of the Digital Knowledge Exchange highlighted just a few possibilities: "The technology can be adapted to provide architects with the most advanced drawings, help medical products firms visualise an application on a virtual body or marketing companies design industry-leading presentations." Hopes are that the project will also train an elite working force in the region, who can best take advantage of the future technological advances.