Review

1. Review David Smith Innovationworks Ltd Liverpool, October 06

2. Agenda • Aims • Approach

3. Aims • To identify business incubation good/best practice in creative industries • cross-fertilise and/or develop existing • Qualify & quantify market demand in each partner territory • want • need

4. Aims • Cross-fertilisation and/or develop existing • Market demand • Scope packaging and delivery of skills

5. Approach • Desk & phone research by territory to identify good/best practice • Phone survey of creative businesses • Face-to-face interviews with relevant organisations

6. Approach • Desk & phone research by territory to identify good/best practice • research guidelines to be determined • Territories to be researched • Partners undertaking research

7. Approach • Phone survey of creative businesses • nominated territory partners • access existing networks • semi-structured questionnaire

8. Approach • Semi-structured questionnaire • business incubation schemes accessed • if not used, would they have been if available (provide outline of business incubation) • what were/are skills wants/needs (start-up & early stage growth) • what & how accessed to date • what not available/difficult to access/not happy with content • preparedness to feed into VIC development & prototyping

9. Approach • Face-to-face interviews with relevant organisations • good/best practice • potential VIC involvement (cross-fertilisation) • Identify additional design businesses (contact for feedback)

10. Business innovation • Applying creativity to business models and markets • collaboration inside creative industries • collaboration between creative industries and others sectors/agendas, e.g. technology, service