Institute of Digital Innovation and DigitalCity
Institute of Digital Innovation
Our flagship Institute of Digital Innovation (IDI) has put the University on the global map as a premier location for digital media and technology.
IDI open day
A range of exciting interactive displays showcasing the work of DigitalCity Fellows greeted visitors to an Open Day at the Institute of Digital Innovation.
More about the IDI open day
IDI occupies the four floors of our £12m Phoenix Building, on Woodlands Road, Middlesbrough.
The top floor focuses on supporting the digital industries. Companies seeking to develop or strengthen links with research and enterprise in the University can lease high-quality office units.
If you are a business wishing to explore the possibility of becoming a tenant of IDI business floor, contact Neil Hannah, New Business Manager within the Department of Academic Enterprise, email n.hannah@tees.ac.uk or phone 01642 384646.
Find out more about our high-quality, affordable business accommodation (Windows Media - 9.8mb)
The second floor of IDI includes studio space for up to 32 DigitalCity Fellows, with specialist software provided in flexible labs. Postgraduate studios are also based on this floor.
The first floor has specialist facilities for research groups, whereas the ground floor houses the DigitalCity offices and a specialist sound stage, conference room and innovation room.
IDI is the ideal place for people to develop their digital skills, expertise and career options, working in top-class facilities alongside research and development teams and businesses which are looking for the next big thing in digital development.
Among the innovative teams based in the Institute is Teesside University's Centre for Design in the Digital Economy (d-lab) which is putting the finishing touches to an on-line expo-space that aims to become a virtual creative-quarter for the region.
IDI website
A short distance away is DigitalCity Boho Zone, an exciting new town centre development by partners Middlesbrough Council, providing business acceleration, networking and accommodation for a fast-developing cluster of indigenous and inward-investing digital companies.
DigitalCity Fellowships Scheme
It’s not just our students who are benefiting from IDI, as it is also part of the exciting DigitalCity initiative which supports growing businesses and embodies a new kind of regeneration project - putting quality research alongside business to build a high-growth economic base.
For more information about IDI
- T: 01642 384334
- E: info@thedigitalcity.org
- IDI website
Ambitious entrepreneurial graduates and alumni who want the chance to explore a business idea or research project can apply for IDI’s Digital City Fellowships Scheme.
Our fellowships have generated over 90 new digital companies in North East England in recent years.
The scheme offers the opportunity to develop commercially-viable portfolios or business proposals, providing bursaries, focussed business and skills training, along with support and mentoring from industry specialists.
More about the DigitalCity Fellowships Scheme
Continuing to develop
IDI is one of two new developments on the University campus – the other being the £10m Athena Building, home to the Centre of Creative Technologies, which provides 4,000 square metres of studio space for teaching and learning across a range of areas of digital technology and media.
Centre for Creative Technologies