This is the application platform for CoSTAR, the UK’s first national network for creative industries research and development.
All current calls for the Enterprise and Commercialisation and the Prototypes & Pilots programmes can be found listed below.
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CoSTAR Originate is a pioneering online enterprise taster programme, specially devised for early career researchers focussed on screen and performance technologies in the CoSTAR Network.
Led by expert innovation design and business design consultant, Dr Gill Wildman, Founder of Upstarter Incubator and Plot, CoSTAR Originate will build business knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurship over 4 x weekly 2.5 hr sessions on 11, 18, 25 November and 2 December 2025.
Through a combination of tutor-led discussions, industry speaker presentations and current case studies, engaging workshop exercises and peer to peer learning and support, participants will learn about research in a creative business context, classic entrepreneur and creative R&D journeys, and the language and values of business as well as business for purpose, ‘not for profit’ and social purpose.
Participants will learn how to:
- Identify value and potential applications in research
- Plot a journey for an idea
- Identify collaboration and engagement practices
- Know the main elements of identifying and protecting IP
- Articulate a value proposition for research
- Speak with industry professionals with confidence