Archive for May, 2006

Management, Management, Management

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

What VCs look for in a company according to Jay Patel of NewMediaSpark speaking at bTWEEN at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. Keynotes from David Puttnam and John Sanborn. John was a mentor on the first Lab that I ever ran in 1996; at the time ...

Comedy Lab

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Looks like the Comedy Lab that we're working on with BBC Interactive Drama and Entertainment will be happening in early July - sometime after the World Cup but before the holidays. We're going to experiment with a different format from the Innovation Labs earlier this year, inviting individuals instead of teams ...

Creative Economy Programme

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

The DCMS is currently engaged in a process of putting together proposals that could form the basis of a green paper on support for creative industries in the UK. I went to a meeting today of the 'Competition and Intellectual Property Working Group' at the London Business School - standing ...