All IDI activities are dedicated to bringing about the active transformative power of knowledge, research, expertise and enterprise to deliver economic growth, support community transformation, and realise people’s personal creative goals.

Drawing upon the extensive digital expertise at Teesside University, and combining it with our entrepreneurs, industry links and global networks, the IDI works with idea-creators and leads them through the development process towards the commercialisation and dissemination of their idea – helping them to actualise intellectual, social and economic value for their concept.  All of this activity is supported by an engagement model focused on continuous research of internal and external trends and activities, to maximise our organisational effectiveness and improve our internal processes and procedures.  This research activity extends beyond national boundaries into knowledge sharing activities with like organisations across the globe.

Much as our primary mission is nurturing creative digital ideas and refining them into high value commercial products and services, we share this expertise with our digital community engagement partners to ensure an inclusive digital world for all.  The IDI community engagement model flexes to the needs both sides of the digital divide, and our principles of inclusion and independence give everyone a voice and the opportunity to drive positive change with ideas and digital technology.