UKRI/EPSRC Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy

Mission & Goals

DECaDE is the UKRI Next Stage Centre for the Decentralized Digital Economy, a multi-disciplinary academic research centre led by the University of Surrey in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and the Digital Catapult. DECaDE is a £10 million research centre funded 2020-2026 by industry and the UKRI/ EPSRC under grant EP/T022485/1. DECaDE’s mission is to explore how decentralised platforms and data centric technologies such as AI and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) can help create value and in our future digital economy in which everyone is a producer and consumer of digital goods and services. DECaDE studies these questions primarily through the lens of the creative industries, which have shifted from monolithic content producers to a decentralised model where individuals and smaller production houses also increasingly produce and consume content disseminated via online platforms.