About c&binet

In February 2008, the Department for Culture Media and Sport, (DCMS) jointly with the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and the Department for Innovation and Skills (DIUS), published a strategy paper for the creative economy called Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy.

‘Creative Britain’ contains 26 commitments designed to put culture and creativity at the centre of our national life and bring the creative industries into the mainstream of the UK economy. Commitment no 24 is ‘We will initiate the launch of the World Creative Business Conference’.  This was the working title for c&binet.

C&binet was formally launched in October 2008 and the first main c&binet event will be on 26-28 October 2009 at The Grove in Hertfordshire.

The vision for c&binet

C&binet was created by the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport to foster international dialogue about the creative economy. The c&binet ambassadors – business leaders from across the creative economy – helped to shape the vision for the first c&binet forum, which will focus on the three fundamental challenges for the creative economy:

• Growth – How we can grow the creative economy share best practice and build business capacity?
• Balance – How do we strike the right balance between the interests of the producer, distributor and consumer?
• Talent – How do we develop, identify, manage and reward creative talent and support creative entrepreneurs?

Most urgently, this year’s c&binet forum will address the question of how we can effectively protect rights and encourage the growth of new business models.

The future

While DCMS have taken steps to initiate c&binet it is the clear desire of Government that it should become a not-for-profit initiative run without direct government control.