1. Foundation Organisations are organisations who define their contribution to a creative Scotland in terms of talent, quality production, access, audience development and participation, the economy and place. 51

3. The standard definition of the creative industries used by the DCMS includes 13 industries: advertising architecture art and antiques computer games crafts design designer fashion film and video music performing arts publishing software TV and radio.

4. The computer game industry is worth more than £55 billion worldwide. It is worth £30 million to the Scottish Economy. http://www.tiga.org/news/press-releases/government-must- develop-a-growth-strategy-for-key-industries big hitters …

5. From ‘Destination Music’ 2011 Music tourists contribute at least £864 million a year to the UK Economy 82% of a collective spend of £1.4 billion is spent by domestic tourists

8. http://www.hebrideanseajewellery.com /

9. http://www.creativescotland.com/sites/default/files/editor/Craft_in_an_Age_of_Change_- _Scotland_Summary.pdf http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/artsandculture/documents/MadeInTheOuterHebrides.pdf

12. I love North Uist: lots of tempting looking sand flats, inklings of waterlilies … I took a detour to Sollas Bookbinding … http://www.sollasbooks.com /

14. The Lewis Man: 396 in the Amazon Bestsellers Rank, March 6 th, 2012

15. Skåne was the only Swedish region to increase in hotel visits during the first quarter of 2009. Ystad saw an 18% increase of tourists from the UK. Estimates suggest 2-3% of the people who watched the first series of Wallander on the BBC decided to visit the region. From Statistics Sweden, Wikipedia, 2011

16. Films depicting the UK are responsible for generating around a tenth of overseas tourism revenues, totalling around £1.9 billion a year. From ‘The Economic Impact of the UK Film Industry’ 2010

17. Growth Support agencies, eg Taigh Chearsabhagh Tourism Industry Partnerships Local Authority Partnership Retail Strategy and Outlets Alignment of Heritage and Creativity National and International Opportunity Eg a TV series, Creative Scotland investment Partnerships Planning Promotion Priority Proactivity

18. Uist Jeweller Hot desk and workshop support at Taigh Chearsabhagh Jewellery used prominently in Hebridean tourism marketing Jeweller receives grant support from CnES Jewellery stocked in shops across Hebrides Develops a line linked to an archaeological find, eg Udal Chosen by Craft Scotland to represent Hebrides at USA fair Partnerships Planning Promotion Priority Proactivity

19. http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=11136366 http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/creative_industries/default.aspx http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/research/Creative-Industries-Economic-Estimates-Report-2011- update.pdf http://www.creativescotland.com/sites/default/files/editor/EKOS_Economic_Impact_Scoping_Study.pdf http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/eds/documents/CreativeAndCulturalIndustriesStrategy2012-15.pdf http://www.ukmusic.org/assets/media/UK%20Music%20-Music%20Tourism.pdf http://www.creativescotland.com/ http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=11138810 http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/files/30297/11942616973cultural_stat_EN.pdf/cultural_stat_EN.pdf http://www.oef.com/samples/oeffilmindustryjune10.pdf What are the Creative Industries and what do they provide?

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