Brightstar negotiating Scottish games lab
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BT corporate incubator Brightstar is in negotiations to set up a games technology lab in Scotland.
24 October 2002 BT corporate incubator Brightstar is in discussions to set up a games technology lab in Scotland. Harry Berry, the 'creative leader' of Brightstar, said the company is hoping to replicate the model used by Brightstar in association with two Scottish universities.
"It's a joint IPR [Intellectual Property Rights] project," says Berry. "We have strong links with the universities already. We're building a network."
The Brightstar model encourages developers and engineers to look at ways of using their work commercially outside the company if it is not able to exploit it fully in-house. The incubator helps them establish a company and business model and brings in outside management expertise in exchange for a minority stake in the new company.
Berry said that large companies such as BT - and universities - often have huge amounts of unexploited intellectual property that could generate significant revenues if developed into products.
Berry says the deal is not yet final and he is unwilling to specify which universities will be involved, but the main aim of the lab will be to develop "games platform" technology.
