{"id":4442,"date":"2014-07-03T09:16:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/03\/government-pledges-p16m-funding-injection-for-britains-creative-industries\/"},"modified":"2014-07-03T09:16:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:16:01","slug":"government-pledges-p16m-funding-injection-for-britains-creative-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/07\/03\/government-pledges-p16m-funding-injection-for-britains-creative-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Government pledges \u00a316m funding injection for Britain&#8217;s creative industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/ae\/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg\/1200px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"109\" \/><br \/>The creative industries could stand to gain from a \u00a316m injection of  Government funding after the launch of a new growth strategy called  Create UK. Business Secretary Vince Cable (pictured) announced the news  yesterday as Create UK revealed aims to double the size of exports in  the creative sectors from \u00a315.5bn in 2012 to \u00a331bn by 2020. Plans include support for education, funding, infrastructure, intellectual property protection and exports.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, Nicole Mendelsohn &#8211; Facebook\u2019s vice president  of EMEA and co-chair of the Creative Industries Council &#8211; said: &#8220;We are  trading in an increasingly competitive marketplace and cannot take our  position for granted. We truly believe our sector is as vital to the  UK\u2019s economy as the more traditional powerhouse industries. Government  should now make the creative industries one of its official industrial  strategy sectors to build on this UK success story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cable responded: \u201cWe want this sector to continue to thrive so it\u2019s  important that government and industry keep working together to foster  the right environment for creative industries to succeed and inspire  young people to follow in the footsteps of the many creative  heavyweights that Britain has produced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creative industries could stand to gain from a \u00a316m injection of Government funding after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}