Design Partners

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Design Partners

• Christine Losecaat
• Creative Industries Adviser

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Design Partners

• Brings together business, trade bodies, trade
  associations stakeholders and individuals from
  the industry, with a view to
• Enhancing export performance of the sector
• Considering where and how government and
  stakeholders can best support industrys efforts

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Members

• UK Trade Investment (Joint Secretariat)
  
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Joint
  Secretariat)
• Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
• British Council
• Crafts Council
• Design Council
• British Art Market Federation
• British Design Art Direction (DAD)
• British Design Initiative (BDI)
• British European Design Group (BEDG)
• Chartered Society of Designers (CSD)
• Design Business Association (DBA)
• Designersblock
• Design Nation Chair Andrew Summers
• London Design Festival Adviser Christine
  Losecaat

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Design Partners

• Main activities are
• Fostering collaboration between industry groups
• Identifying suitable target markets for the
  industry
• Undertaking market research for the design
  industry
• Facilitating inward investment
• Working to become established as the information
  resource on design-related export activity

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Priority Markets

• USA Eastern Europe
• Japan Germany
• China
• Taiwan Russia
• Korea
• India The Gulf
• Australia (niche)
• Hong Kong (niche)
• Scandinavia (Crafts)

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2005/2006 Events to Date
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Ad Hoc Events

• Argentinean Wine Seminar
• Japan Electronics and Information Technologies
  Association
• London Design Festival / World Creative Forum
• Chinese Science Museum Delegation
• Chinese Rail Sector Delegation
• Mexican Airports Sector

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Design Scoping Reports

• Austria
• China
• Czech Republic
• Germany
• The Gulf (Interiors/Contract Furniture)
• Japan
• Korea
• India
• Slovakia
• South Africa
• Switzerland www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk

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Sector Priorities

• Automotive
• Aerospace / Airports
• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Leisure Tourism

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Design Partners

• Design Partners aims to increase the level of
  international design business by co-ordinating
  the activities of design industry bodies and
  government agencies and departments.
• Main delivery arms
• UK Trade Investment / Business Link
• Accredited Trade Associations

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Design Partners

• Christine Losecaat
• Creative Industries Adviser

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SESA

• Support for Exhibitions and Seminars Abroad
• The main objectives of the scheme are
• to assist new exporters to become established in
  markets abroad,
• to help more experienced exporters enter under
  exploited and newly emerging target markets,
  whilst also
• providing support for smaller groups of exporters
  at niche events

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Accredited Sponsors - SESA

• British Art Market Federation
• British Council Export Promotion Unit
• British European Design Group
• Crafts Council
• Designersblock
• Japan Advisers
• South Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce