3C Research

3C Research (3CR) is a not-for-profit members company. 3CR supports collaborative research projects involving universities and commercial organisation, both large and small, in the fields of digital media and communications.

3CR creates an environment where a wide variety of industry players can come together to share their perspectives and skills in order to develop new technologies and understand emerging markets. The 3CR network combines leading edge research and the entrepreneurial energy of new start-ups. This enables its members to create and realise new solutions at every level from underlying technologies to whole systems.

3CR's Approach

3CR's research programme brings academic and commercial members together in executing challenging collaborative projects. The research programme is distinctive in two key respects:

• research spanning both digital media and communications
• focus on real world problems, involving in-situ user testing

3CR is unique in its ability to combine research perspectives from both digital media and communications in real world settings. We put together all the elements of end-to-end solutions for content creation, processing, management and distribution over both wired and wireless communication networks.

3CR Activities

3CR provides the infrastructure for collaborative research. We can provide any or all of the following services to commercial companies and research organisations wishing to engage in collaborative research.

• project management
• financial management
• intellectual property management
• marketing
• dissemination and exploitation of project results
• networking events