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Watershed at the heart of Creative Britiain

February 22, 2008

Posted by Clare in: Watershed | Innovation | Technology | Trackback

The Government today published Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy, its Creative Economy action plan in which the future development of, and investment in, Britain’s creative industries is debated. Amongst the many examples of excellence cited was the work of Watershed.

Led by the Department for Media, Culture and Sport, in partnership with The Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation, University and Skill, Creative Britain explores how organisations like Watershed are playing a vital developmental role in the wider creative economy – an economy which contributes £60 billion to the UK economy, employs 1.1 million people and which is growing at twice the rate of the economy as a whole.

The plan highlights several initiatives that have developed from partnerships Watershed has forged to embrace the wider creative and technology communities including MeiGeist, SE3D and the ground-breaking Pervasive Media Studio.

Download the plan: Creative Britain - New Talents for the Economy PDF (1.2mb)