Creative Spark, centre for creativity and innovation.
Creative Spark provides dedicated training and workspace facilities in Dundalk. They welcome and support new and established businesses operating within the creative industries, innovation, technology, and sustainable energy sectors.
The Creative Industries sector in the North-East has the potential to contribute significantly to the sustainable growth of the region not alone in its own right, but also with regard to opportunities for ‘cross pollination’ with wider enterprise, particularly in terms of design and the use of new technologies to enhance and improve production.
Creative Spark commissioned this research to investigate and provide baseline data around the size and composition of the region’s creative industries and design technology sector, the critical issues for the sector and to propose a set of recommendations to develop the sector further in the North-East.
This report and supporting database of Creative Industries & Design Technology companies in the North-East was commissioned by Creative Spark, Centre for Innovation and Creativity, which supports and promotes the creative and design industries in the region. The study was carried out in conjunction with the North-East Regional Enterprise Development Plan to 2024.
An expert group of stakeholders from the region and representatives from the Local Enterprise Offices in counties Cavan, Louth and Monaghan provided direction in shaping the objectives of this study which was undertaken by TechIreland, the body that tracks and promotes the Irish tech community.
This project involves a talent-mapping of counties Louth, Monaghan and Cavan and a database of the region’s capacity and potential in the Creative Industries & Design sectors. It is hoped that the study will inform a campaign to recruit businesses to the region and encourage smart and remote workers to both remain in and relocate to the region.
Find more information and read the full report here
