Making Innovation happen: Cross Innovation at Creative England

Creative England is bringing together multiple and diverse stakeholders to create stories, products and business with impact and long term value. Its knowledge of the creative and emerging technologies, coupled with a network of commercial and technical experts, businesses and support partners is helpful to build, support and finance innovative solutions to specific industry challenges. Creative England has a strong track record of supporting new ideas and talent from their initial point of inspiration, through to the development, financing and exploitation stages. In addition, it helps creative people and entrepreneurs to access big supply chains such as Sony, Microsoft, SKY and Disney. At the heart of what the organisation does is talent development and collaboration.

Tim Evans will share the organisation´s experience of innovation and cross sector innovation, including programmes such as GamesLab, Open Innovation and Shortflix, which work in partnership across the creative, gaming, film, health and space sectors to innovative and create value.