Funding includes:
• £369 million for creative industries with £100 million is allocated to supporting creative innovations.
• £25 million for Createch Futures
• £155 million for creative economy infrastructure through the DiSSCo UK (Distributed System of Scientific Collections) programme, to digitise natural science collections
• Investment in Creative Content Exchange which digitises cultural and creative assets, via Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme.
Guidance is offered via R&D Strategy for the Creative and Cultural Economy, to enable public and private support to sell internationally and obtain investment.
Applications are now open for Creative Clusters. £27 million worth of funding has been allocated for up to £7 million per project.
Supported activities include widening the geographical reach of clusters; skills and talent development; equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI); business growth; and environmental sustainability
Brighton based intellectual property advisor Clive Bonny MD of Strategic Management Partners has been supporting creative enterprise growth with funding since 1990. Clive says “this enables small enterprises who have been highly dispersed to consolidate and grow via clusters. It can also promote growth with affordable registered designs which improve protection from Ai users and can accelerate revenue growth through international licencing”
from Clive Bonny : Clive@consult-smp.com