Business Models & Access to Finance
Introduction
Business models refer to the ways in which businesses organise themselves to provide value to customers and generate revenue. Creative businesses and workers generate income through an array of business models. Many of these models may be new and a company’s business model also has implications for its ability to access funding. Changes to the model are thus of vital importance; for this reason the Creative PEC has aimed to better understand the drivers of change for creative business models and how creative companies access finance.
Creative PEC research in this theme looks at how creative businesses are changing the way they operate, reaching new markets and accessing different types of funding.
Publications and Posts
The changing spatial distribution of employment in creative industry clusters in England 1991-2018
Dr Ben Gardiner and Professor Peter Sunley Total creative industry employment has grown substantiall…
The impact of overseas mergers and acquisitions on UK video games industry
A new scoping study on the economic consequences and potential market failures The BFI’s Resear…
What can we learn about the innovation performance of the Creative Industries from the UK Innovation Survey?
Creative PEC launches new research exploring how the creative industries participate in innovation a…
Make Freelancing Pay
New research shows innovative tax and benefits policies could transform UK Screen Industry freelance…
Unleashing Creativity: Fixing the Finance Gap in the Creative Industries
This report is a collaboration between Creative UK and the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence C…
Beyond growth: promoting inclusive development of creative clusters in the UK
The UK creative industries have been an economic powerhouse for over two decades, contributing £125 …
Regional Trade Agreements, Cultural Provisions and Trade in Cultural Goods
A Creative PEC Discussion Paper Muharrem Cevik, Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University and Giorgio Fazio an…
International Trade Challenges and the Effectiveness of Support Measures for the UK’s Creative Industries
The formidable challenges confronting the UK’s creative industries in the realm of exports, st…
Northern England’s Creative Industries
The Creative Industries are already a driver of growth across the UK economy. Export-intensive and m…
Creative Destruction? Creative firms, workers and residential gentrification
A new study by Tasos Kitsos, Max Nathan, and Diana Gutierrez-Posada finds only a minor influence of …
Speaking with One Voice
A fundamental remit of the BBC, and other public service broadcasters (PSBs) like ITV and Channel 4,…
Transitioning to Sustainable Production across the UK Theatre Sector
This discussion paper examines transitional pathways to sustainable theatre production in the UK. By…
Policy Brief: Transitioning to Sustainable Production across the UK Theatre Sector
This policy brief outlines recommendations for transitioning to more sustainable theatre production …
Driving local growth: Lessons from the Preston Model
The ‘Preston Model’ of Community Wealth Building (CWB) is an innovative policy intervention that ens…
On-Demand Culture: How the lockdown is changing games and streaming services
Covid-19 regulations and restrictions have meant conventional forms of leisure and culture have eith…
Understanding how our habits of cultural consumption changed during lockdown – wave 9 data
Insights from the nine-week study into consumers cultural consumption habits – data from wave …
Business model disruption and innovation during COVID-19 in the creative content industries
To understand how COVID-19 continues to affect the creative industries, we have consulted our Indust…
As lockdown eased: How our habits of cultural consumption at home are changing
The outbreak of COVID-19 and the halt on many cultural and creative activities, from live music, to …
Understanding how our habits of cultural consumption changed during lockdown – newest survey data
Insights from the nine-week study into consumers cultural consumption habits This is the latest rele…
With the right financial support creative industries could fuel the Government’s growth mission and help tackle persistent regional inequality
A new report published today by the AHRC-funded Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Crea…
Access to Finance: launch of new research project
New research is being undertaken by Creative UK in partnership with the Creative Industries Policy a…
Press Release: ‘Creative Corridors’ can be the key to the UK’s creative industries’ ambitions
Today (Saturday 16 September), three major institutions announce a joint agreement to work together …
Press release: Poorest areas excluded from Manchester’s creative industries success story
Research shows poorest parts of Manchester have few firms & little/no employment in creative sec…
Press release: What happens to coastal towns when the holiday-makers leave?
Could investment in the Creative Industries be key to year-round, economic development? Could invest…
PEC announces the launch of six new commissioned research projects
The research will cover everything from fashion and music, to migration and seaside towns The PEC’s …
Cultural consumption in the UK – data and analysis from the six month study
A summary of the data and blogs published as part of our COVID-19 digital consumer survey tracker Su…
Artificial intelligence, levelling-up and R&D: the PEC’s response to the Spending Review 2020
We analyse the Spending Review and the extent our recommendations feature in today’s announcem…
Taking stock of the Creative Industries Sector Plan
We summarise some of the key sector-wide announcements from the Creative Industries Sector Plan.
What does the 2025 Spending Review mean for the creative industries?
A read out from Creative PEC Bernard Hay and Emily Hopkins On Wednesday 11th June the UK Government …
Bridging the Imagination Deficit
The Equity Gap in Britain’s Creative Industries[1]. by Professor Nick Wilson The creative industries…
What just happened to funding for culture in Scotland?
First the facts: Creative Scotland announced the outcome of its new Multi-Year Funding Programme on …
Measuring the economic value of digital culture
What are consumers are willing to pay for digital streaming services, and how do we measure it?
Lifelong learning in the creative industries, part 2: the solutions
In part 2 of the blog, our Industry Champions discuss possible solutions to the challenges of lifelo…
Creative UK Access to Finance Survey: Share Your Views
Professor Hasan Bakhshi, Director Creative PEC and Josh Siepel, Research Lead, R&D, Innovation a…
The PEC’s response to the 2023 Spring Budget
The creative industries are a vital part of the UK economy. There are, however, some continued chall…
What the Autumn Budget means for the Creative Industries
With the UK almost certainly entering a recession – Q3 has seen negative GDP growth – and inflation …
Trade in creative services: scale, trends, and geography
Creative services such as advertising, publishing, and design are an important part of global trade.…
How Research and Innovation can help level-up the Creative Industries
The Levelling-Up White Paper produced by the Department for Levelling-Up, Housing and…
How theatre can contribute to the UK’s net-zero targets
“It is with ambition, courage and collaboration as we approach the crucial COP26 summit in the UK th…
