[Closed] Creative Industry: What can be done to encourage growth in this sector?

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disgruntled - Member

Personally speaking exporting more to China and India is pretty much killing my line of work (animator) substantial proportion of the actual artwork side of making series, e.c.t, all goes off to India and China thus very little work for people here. I would be happy getting paid a pretty basic wage but even that still can't match production cost that overseas can offer.

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That was a polite sum up of my feelings.

I do not mean outsource your job away. If you are exporting your creative juice then you sell without transferring your core skills(trade secrets). Otherwise, once they have learned the trick of your trade i.e. trade secrets, then there will no further need for your service.

If companies keep transferring their skills (trade secrets) abroad then in the long run they will only make themselves uncompetitive because they have cheaper labour.

Creative Scotland are now also helping to fund web startups given the buoyancy of the digital sector and the massive potential returns these can generate. So, although funded initially, they can use that seed capital to grow into fully fledged businesses. And those who think that launching an innovative startup without pots of VC cash is easy (and the domain of turtlenecked black coffee swilling pontificators) has clearly never worked at one.

pay us creative types to not work in non creative jobs and instead give us money to sit around, drink coffee and come up with ideas to ensure that we continue to receive money.