Video: National Virtual Incubators - Telegraph The British Innovation Gateway (BIG) is a programme designed and built to support and nurture tech innovation across the whole of the UK. National Virtual Incubators (NVI) is part of the BIG. The NVI network aims to boost levels of UK research, innovation and economic growth through the interconnection of innovation, incubation and research centres in and around the UK. Tom Keen, Business Development Director at Cisco, describes how they aim to use NVI to harness the power of clusters of innovation around UK using Cisco video and collaboration technology. To this end, Cisco and its NVI partners have joined with a number of science parks, universities, business schools around the country. NVI helps solve the problems of access to funding, resources, mentoring and talent by enabling people using one node to collaborate with those using other nodes across the UK. BIG is a five-year commitment from Cisco. NVI helps achieve the aim of creating a community of thousands of people driving forward the innovation agenda.