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The creative industries
are defined as those ‘activities that have their origin
in individual creativity, skill and talent and have the potential
for wealth and job creation through generation and exploitation
of intellectual property’. Sectors include: advertising;
architecture; arts and antiques trade; crafts; design; designer
fashion; video – film – photography; music –
visual – performing arts; publishing; software and computer
games; television and radio.
Advice
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport has launched
the Creative Economy Programme as a first step in achieving
the goal of making the UK the world's creative hub. The programme
will focus on seven key issues that are the drivers of productivity
in the creative industries.
You can find out more about the programme, and how to register
for its online forums, by visiting http://www.cep.culture.gov.uk/
Arts
& Business - the world's most successful and widespread
creative network. They help business people support the arts
and the arts inspire business people, because good business
and great art together create a richer society. Their purpose
is to enable business and its people to be more successful
by engaging with the arts and to increase resources for the
arts from business and its people.
Crafts & Visual Arts - support for artists is available
via Warwickshire County Arts Service. The Arts Service also
provides the on-line
Contact Arts database.
Artsweek, is a bi-annual celebration of the visual arts
and crafts in Warwickshire in the form of artists' open studios,
gallery events, education projects and exhibitions/workshops
in unusual venues.
Business
Link
Creative
Commons - a not for profit alternative to full copyright.
Creativexport
- provides UK creative industries with a portal to information
that will support them in the development of export strategies,
enhancing their creativity, economic competitiveness and international
collaboration.
Creative
Launchpad - free, expert help and advice for people working
creatively in the West Midlands. Open to anyone in the Creative
Industries. Drop in to the Custard Factory shop, or ring ahead
to make an appointment.
Coventry
& Warwickshire Cooperative Development Agency - high
quality support to create and sustain businesses that involve
their employees in ownership and management. CDA also supports
community-based economic initiatives that enable people to
take control of their economic lives. We aim to be leading
advisers and consultants in employee ownership, people centered
economic development and social enterprise.
Grant
Support - comprehensive database of constantly updated
information on government grants and loans. Find the right
grant or loan to further develop your business among hundreds
of different schemes available all over the UK. In order to
find the schemes most relevant to your creative enterprise,
you need to create a profile consisting of your business location,
size and sector.
Patent
Office - IP & Innovation Directorate, including the
latest information on copyright, design, patent and trade
mark policy.
Creative Insight - based in Birmingham - the intellectual
property arm of Business Insight, the UK's most comprehensive
public business information service - helping innovators protect
their ideas and turn them into reality since 1919 and we offer
a breadth of services that is unique in Britain. Advising
on Copyright, Design Right, Patents and Trademarks, our service
is geared towards practical business support so that we can
help you grow the germ of an idea into a successful business.
Funding
Advantage
Development Fund enables new and existing screen-based
media companies to undertake research and development work
to bring new products to market. More information from Screen
West Midlands...
Learning & development
Arts + Media Training Courses
Coventry
University
Hybrid:arts
Skillssolutions
- Businesses can ring a single point of contact – a
manned telephone hotline on 0845 609 2255 – giving them
access to a database containing the latest training and education
information.
Stratford-on-Avon
College
Symbiosis - Accredited
Macromedia and Adobe trainers offering Dreamweaver, Flash
MX 2004, Acrobat, Pagemaker, Illustrator, Symbiosis Forensic
Services, and Video
Warwick
University Business
Warwickshire
College Business & Enterprise Support Team
Research
Design
in Britain 2002 -2003 (3.66MB) 
Skills
needs in the Media and Creative Industries (750KB)
Skills
needs in Tourism and Creative Industries (236KB)
Networking
UKita (formerly WMITA)
the organisation responsible for the development of a credible
and thriving IT industry within the West Midlands
Department
of Culture Media and Sport Creative Industries Banch
Events - Check the Events
Page
News
Arts
News (The Guardian)
Media
News (The Guardian)
Links - to over 130 South Warwickshire
Creative Industries, including Advertising
& Marketing, Architecture,
Crafts, Design,
Music, Visual Performing arts conference
and presentation, Publishing,
Software and Computer games, Video
Film & Photography and their supporting agencies for
different sectors of the creative industries, such as trade
associations, regional support services.
Special Projects
Spencer Yard Cultural
Quarter Hub
Althorpe
Street Creative Industries Incubator
Waterside Development, Stratford-upon-Avon
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