Gov’t Bodies Backing Creativity, Part 2: Royal College of Art’s Business Incubator Gets NESTA Funding
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It’s the kind of funding design schools and students dream of: The Royal College of Art’s Business Incubator has received a shot in the arm from NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, to the tune of 450,000 pounds.
The Design London Business Incubator is intended to combine graduates from both the RCA and Imperial College of London in the fields of design, engineering and business with the intent of producing useful, saleable products and technologies. Min Kyu Choi’s foldable plug (above), which was all the blog rage in 2009, is one of the projects the Business Incubator currently has in development. Another is the Robofold (below), a manufacturing process that uses industrial robots to fold sheet metal into complex surfaces.
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