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5:04pm on Tuesday, 19th October, 2021:
Anecdote
The UK government has grants available to deliver the fruits of research from universities to industry. These are called "Knowledge Transfer Partnerships", or KTPs.
Spurred on by the possibility that we're in the process of landing one of these for games, Essex University's Research and Enterprise Office is looking at other ways we could transfer some of our knowledge to industry (specifically games-related industries). Given that we're in a Computer Science department, that means Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and possible Natural Language Processing.
Although these have plenty of uses in game design, development, production and operation, that's not the same as transferring knowledge. For example, procedural content generation can be done using AI, but no company is going to enter into a partnership with us to create tools for the procedurally-generated content of their game. However, companies may well be interested in helping them rebalance their games after adding new content or bringing out a sequel.
The big companies have data scientists and AI specialists already aboard, so they're not going to need us. The small indies may need us, but not be able to cough up any money for our services (KTP grants only cover part of the expense). Somewhere in between, there's a sweet spot of companies that have some spare cash and know that AI or whatever can help them, but don't know how.
Sadly, the transferring of knowledge to tell people what knowledge they need transferred to them is not part of a KTP project.
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