Curator - Data Qualification Engine

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Focus Innovation is a digital product company with extensive experience in developingsolutions for business problems. The focal point of our work is user experiential design andthe visualisation of complex data sets. Focus also provides specialist advisory services to UKTrade and Investment in order to help foreign companies understand the strengths of the UK’sdigital and creative sector.As a consequence of our work within Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Focus has created adigital product ‘Curator’ to help FDI professionals articulate regional industry clusters.Curator creates complex info-graphics from multiple data sources; Companies House,Linkedin, HESA etc, and presents them alongside more narrative supporting elements; keycompanies, thought leaders, research projects and hubs of activity.We have developed Curator for several cities (Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool & Bristol)and in each case we work with regional industry specialists in order to identify the supportingelements we require. This is an intensively consultative process and we have explored how touse existing data to automate the measurement of regional industrial strengths. Circumventingthe need for rare and expensive specialists.We have found that when using existing data sets, in their rudimentary form, there is a lack ofqualification and valuation of eco-system assets - Universities, Research Groups, ThoughtLeaders, Companies and Professionals.Our concept, the ‘Data Qualification Engine’ (DQE), will grade data sources against anindustrial scoring matrix in order to both qualify eco-system assets into niche industrialsubsets and determine the value of their activity.We are seeking InnovateUK support to assist in exploring DQE’s market impact across FDIand the broader Data Visualisation (DV) market.