Demos report on public funding
July 18, 2007
Posted by Clare in: Watershed | Ideas | Trackback
Publicly Funded Culture and the Creative Industries, a new research paper by John Holden of Demos, calls for new understandings of how culture can benefit the creative industries, stating that the creative industries are poorly understood in policy, partly because they often do not conform to traditional expectations about how businesses work, and partly because their scale makes them hard to measure and hard to engage with.
Breaking down the ways in which public funding of culture feeds through into economic activity in the creative industries, the paper cites Watershed as 'an exciting example of an organisation successfully nurturing innovation in the creative industries. It is the home for creative networking in Bristol, and is funded by, among others, Arts Council England and South West Screen'.
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