The BBC has announced more “innovation labs” for 2006-07, inviting UK-based new media production companies to submit ideas for new products and services. Forty companies will be picked to work with BBC developers on developing those ideas and pitching them to BBC commissioners during the one-week labs. This is about the BBC’s statutory requirement to spend at least 25 percent of its new media production budget with independent companies, though it is actually aiming for 30 percent, a spend of around $15 million. Twenty-nine companies contributed to the 2005-06 labs and 13 of those ideas were developed after the lab. The scheme is currently open to four regions in the UK – Scotland, London the North east and South East – but may be extended across the country for 2007-08. Release
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This article originally appeared in MediaGuardian.
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