Create Net - A new IVCA programme to support the creative industries
The established creative industries of theatre, the visual arts, music and cinema have a substantial impact on the UK economy and bring considerable prestige to our country They have however, not fully benefited from the expertise available in the corporate production sector. IVCA members could greatly assist the creative industries become more innovative in their approaches to audiences and in communicating their products and services to existing and new markets.
The IVCA Create Net Programme is designed to bring together practitioners from both mainstream arts markets with the corporate sector for business related networking. It aims, over the coming year, to become an effective Knowledge Transfer Network for the Creative Industries and the Corporate Sector.
The Aims and Objectives of the IVCA’s CREATE-NET will be:
- To increase the breadth and depth of knowledge transfer of technology into UK based creative industry companies and to accelerate the rate at which this process occurs
- To ensure a network which will bring together suppliers, customers, producers, academics and research and technology providers
- To facilitate and encourage appropriate networking to enable the creative industries to access knowledge and information central to innovation and growth
Meetings will be structured with senior practitioners from some of the UK’s leading arts venues and centres of creativity to discover the challenges they face and to examine how our industry can help meet them. Discussions will range from the use of traditional and highly successful media platforms to the latest developments in digital media, pod casting and blogging!
Full details about the programme and the opportunities it will provide for IVCA members will be given in the next Update and form the basis for a major networking and information gathering seminar in a few weeks time. For further information or for early expressions of interest in the project, please contact Wayne Drew directly.
