An analysis of applications for the Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture

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The Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture aims to connect arts and cultural organisations with technology companies in a way that can benefit the wider sector. As a collaborative R&D fund, arts and cultural organisations were required to connect with technology companies when putting together their proposals.

There was an overwhelming response from the sector. The fund received 494 applications, of which 393 (seeking over £24 million in total) were judged eligible by the funding partners. This suggests that there is a high demand for digital R&D in the arts and cultural sector. This paper explores the nature of the demand by reporting some descriptive analysis of the applications.

Published
December 2011

Authors
Hasan Bakhshi and Angela Pugh