NAIT Centre for Innovative Media

由于艾伯塔省寻求减少对碳氢化合物的依赖，因此支持中小企业 (SME) 的发展至关重要。该提案的重点是促进艾伯塔省价值 5.73 亿美元的交互式数字媒体 (IDM) 行业的生产力，该行业由为在线消费创建数字产品（例如软件、应用程序、电影、动画和游戏）的公司组成。满足产品开发需求所需的资源和专业知识的广度和深度阻碍了私营部门提供解决方案。创建创新媒体中心 (CIM) 将使 NAIT 能够提供所需的专业知识、**工具和设施，以扩大其与 IDM 行业合作伙伴合作的能力，使他们能够克服产品开发和商业化的挑战。 CIM 将支持公司开发新的数字产品并将其商业化，支持从创意和概念化、原型开发和测试到最终产品开发和市场推出的技术开发。 CIM 的愿景是在广泛的行业咨询后制定的。 CIM 团队汇集了游戏、动画、计算机系统、图形设计、网络和移动应用程序、内容开发、用户体验和用户界面设计、应用程序开发和测试、通信、故事开发、讲故事、视频制作、虚拟现实、业务开发和营销方面的专家。 NAIT 学生将积极参与项目。接触现实世界的行业问题将加强他们的培训，培养未来的创意领袖和企业家。 NAIT 在该领域的应用研究方面拥有丰富的记录。自2012年以来，它已与业界合作开展了350多个媒体相关技术**开发项目，涉及550名学生和十几名教职员工。虽然重点是小企业，但NAIT也将与大公司合作，将其与小企业联系起来，以增强IDM行业价值链并为中小企业创造协同效应。

As Alberta seeks to reduce reliance on hydrocarbons, it is essential to support the growth of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This proposal focuses on catalyzing productivity in Alberta's $573M Interactive Digital Media (IDM) industry, which is comprised of companies that create digital products for online consumption, such as software, applications, movies, animation and games. The breadth and depth of resources and expertise required to meet their product development needs has prevented the private sector from providing solutions. Creating a Centre for Innovative Media (CIM) will enable NAIT to provide the expertise,**tools and facilities needed to expand its capacity to work with IDM industry partners to enable them to overcome product development and commercialization challenges. CIM will support companies develop and commercialize new digital products supporting technology development from idea and conceptualization, through prototype development and testing to final product development and market launch. The vision for CIM was developed after extensive industry consultation. The CIM team integrates experts in gaming, animation, computer systems, graphic design, web and mobile applications, content development, user**experience and user interface design, application development and testing, communications, story development, storytelling, video production, virtual reality, business development and marketing. NAIT students will be strongly involved in projects. Exposure to real-world industry problems will strengthen their training, creating future creative leaders and entrepreneurs. NAIT has an extensive track record of applied research in this area. Since 2012, it has partnered with industry on more than 350 media-related technology**development projects, involving 550 students and more than a dozen faculty. Although the focus is on small business, NAIT will also partner with large companies in sectors where linking them with small business to enhance the IDM industry value chain and create synergies for SMEs.