Thursday 19 Nov 2009 - 13:44
The government is currently canvassing the opinions of the UK's creative industry to define which areas it will invest money in to stimulate innovation.
To launch the search, a panel of the UK's creative leaders has debated the future of the UK's creative industries in a Q&A event streamed live online. The panel included Fred Bolza (Sony Music UK), Rory Sutherland (Ogilvy Group & chairman of the IPA), Julie Meyer (Ariadne Capital / BBC Dragons Den) and Peter Buckingham (UK Film Council) and was led by Jeremy Silver; it was organised by the Technology Strategy Board.
Jeremy Silver said: “The Q&A debate raised many issues that will be of interest to those working in the UK creative industries today – for example, the future of film and gaming as a unified platform.
“We’d like to encourage people to take a few minutes to view the video, understand the implications of the Creative Industries Strategy and provide their feedback to have a direct impact on exactly where the technology Strategy Board should be focusing its attention and, ultimately, making investments to help the UK creative sector remain a centre of excellence for many years to come.”
Questions posed during the Q&A included protection of content, developing content to create a multi-platform media ‘experience’, the relevance of linear narrative in a multimedia environment, the utilisation of existing technologies to solve new and existing problems and the use of augmented reality.
Viewers were encouraged to provide feedback and submit questions for the panel as part of a wider consultation exercise in which the Technology Strategy Board is seeking feedback from the creative industries on its Strategy before roll-out of investment competitions in Spring 2010.
The debate is still viewable on www.innovateuk.org, which also hosts additional bonus footage. The site also features a downloadable copy of the Creative Industries Strategy.
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