Archive for the ‘Creative Economy’ Category

Defining Convergence

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Since taking on the role of ‘Theme Champion’ for convergence with the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network, I’ve been trying to work out what the term actually means some ten years or so since it started to be used to describe the impact of change in media. It turns out ...

‘Majority of UK web users won’t pay for online content’

Friday, July 30th, 2010

A KPMG study, covered by here by the Daily Telegraph, shows that UK consumers remain far less willing than their global counterparts to pay for digital content, especially when compared with the BRIC countries. Britons are, however, more willing to accept targeted advertising on communication devices and are willing ...

Technology Strategy: investing in the challenge of convergence

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

With government funding for the creative industries under the most severe threat since the eighties, it’s worth looking closely at the opportunities that are still in place. One source of finance that so far looks likely to remain intact is the R&D investment from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB). They ...

Nesta: The Innovation Edge

Monday, March 31st, 2008

You can keep a blog for three years without mentioning NESTA and then it pops up twice in successive posts. They've asked me to point out that registration to their 'flagship innovation conference' is now open: The Innovation Edge Conference – Tuesday, 20th May 2008 NESTA’s Innovation Edge conference is an unrivaled ...

UK Sound TV

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

UK Sound TV is a broadband channel set up by Hi8us, the most dynamic media training and production organisation working with young people in England, and Space Studios,. Over the past couple of days I’ve been facilitating a sort of mini lab at the Spread Eagle in Midhurst for the ...

Content 360

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

I've just been invited to participate in Content 360 at Milia this year. Reed Midem have persevered with the attempt to establish an international market for interactive media for well over a decade. I think I first went there in 1995 . It never really became a focus for serious deal-making ...

InSync Event: Rights Will Make You Rich? January 25th 2007

Monday, January 15th, 2007

We keep being told that the key asset in the knowledge economy is intellectual property: that rights will make you rich. But is making money from IPR a real option? Most companies are rooted in a "gun for hire" business model, selling ideas to clients and brand owners ...

Creative R&D

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

At Nesta's conference on supporting "making innovation flourish" at the Business Design Centre I find myself lobbying civil servants from the DCMS about the governmnent's 'technology programme' again. One of them asked me to send an email, so I did: "This is an extension of the case I made to the ...

Games Summit

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

The keynote speaker at the Games Summit at the London Games Festival is Shaun Woodward, Minister at the Department of Culture Media and Sport. He makes it clear that the government recognises games as being an important part of the UK’s creative industries. He commits himself to doing what ...

“It’s the jobs that count, not the ownership”

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Lord Sainsbury and Shaun Woodward in the Cabinet War Rooms Government policy as explained by Lord Sainsbury to Ian Livingstone of Eidos at the games ’summit’ at the Cabinet War Rooms today. Ian was arguing that one of the critical issues facing the industry was the loss of IP to foreign ownership. Sainsbury ...