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Jon Kingsbury has just taken up post with NESTA as Director of the Creative Economy Programme - on sabbatical from BBC.  We met for lunch today to get the low down on NESTA’s plans for the future, and as you have probably guessed, there are lots of interesting developments a foot.

Alongside their investment, research and innovation programmes, it feels like collaborative working partnerships and pilot projects are high on the agenda.   External ideas for innovation and enterprise programmes seem to be a healthy part of the mix and it will be really interesting to see the range of projects and partners which are supported in this way over the coming months.

Skillset currently support NESTA’s Insight Out Programme for the Interactive sector and we are looking to work together on how business support and mentorship programmes, based on this scheme, could be embedded within the Skillset Media Academy Network. 

And for our sector, mentorship is the key word.  The jury is still out as to whether business support schemes, or even Leadership and Management Programmes, should incorporate the wider creative and cultural sectors or focus specifically on the needs of the interactive sector.  But that’s another conversation.

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