CREATIVE CAPITAL CONFERENCE

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CREATIVE CAPITAL CONFERENCE
Richard Smith-Bingham Head of Policy and
Research NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS Amsterdam, March 2005
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POLICY CONTEXT

• Recent UK developments
• regional creative industries strategies
• new sectors skills council for the creative and
  cultural industries
• support for creative industries
  entrepreneurialism in higher education
• drives to get design thinking into non-creative
  industry innovations
• exploration of intellectual property issues

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NESTA MISSION AND FOCUS
To pioneer ways of supporting and promoting
talent, creativity and innovation in science,
technology and the arts

• Helping the creative and personal development of
  highly talented individuals at critical moments
  in their careers
• Enabling inventions and ideas to be turned into
  products and services
• Exploring new ways of learning, and injecting
  creativity into the education system

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NESTA AND THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

• Goals
• higher success rates in terms of the business
  start-ups and business growth
• increased private sector investment
• a stronger recognition of the value of the sector
  within Government

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NESTA RESEARCH

• New solutions to old problems investing in the
  Creative Industries (Nov 2003)
• Creating value how the UK can invest in new
  creative businesses (April 2005)
• The role of higher education in encouraging the
  entrepreneurialism of creative industries
  students (est. early 2006)

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CREATIVE INDUSTRIES SUPPORT

• Insight Out
• 4 days training, 4 weeks development
• 5,000

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CREATIVE INDUSTRIES SUPPORT

CREATIVE PIONEER PROGRAMME

• 30 participants
• 2 residential components and ongoing support
• 15,000-35,000

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CREATIVE INDUSTRIES SUPPORT

• Seed Fund
• 75,000-150,000 mentoring

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CREATIVE INDUSTRIES SUPPORT

• Small/Medium/Large
• Design Business Association Pembridge
  Consultants
• 16 weeks of support and development
• NESTA Futurelab
• ICT in schools research and prototypes

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NESTA

• Further information
• www.nesta.org.uk
• www.nestafuturelab.org
• richard.smith-bingham_at_nesta.org.uk