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The Medway Enterprise Gateway
Regional context
• 8,000 businesses in Medway• 350 creative businesses in Medway + many
suppliers• Creative sector in SE grew by 28.4% in 1995-2000
• Double rate of growth of rest of UK• £46.5Bn turnover
• 1,700 KIAD students • Potential 7,000 population in 06 with combined campus
But• Perceived isolation and poor environment
Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy
Local support for new creative businesses
Advertising Architecture
Art/antiques trade Crafts Design
Designer fashion Video, film, music & photography
Music and the visual performing arts
Publishing
Computer games, software, electronic publishing
Radio and TV
KIAD
Interior Design & Architecture
Digital Media (& multi-media)
Product Design
Fine Art
Fashion
University of Greenwich
Architectural Design
Graphic and Digital Design
Landscape Design
Business Studies
University of Kent
Visual and Performing Arts
Internet and Multimedia Design
Culture and Business Studies
Pre-start >>> Start >>> Early growth >>> Consolidation/development
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Matching business needs with support
Coordinated Business Support
Business Management Skills>>> Practical, On-site >>> Breadth and depth of support develops with business
Creative Skills, IT & Marketing SupportEducation >>> Specialised support
Facilities & Community >>> Hatchery >>> Subs Workspace >>> Commercial Workspace and Property
Information and Training
The Prince’s Trust
Voluntary Sector
Other Incubators
Private Sector
Medway Education Business Partnership
Chamber of Commerce
Universities
Gateway managementMEG Steering Group
Jay Choudhry (Puretone)
Russell Plunkett (BLK)
Julie Perry (SEEDA)
Kathy Wadsworth (MC)
Andy Back (Avon-Dale)
Dalia Halpern (CAC)
Paul Robinson (Vines Cntr Trust)
Jeffrey Brown (Univ of Kent)
MEG Team
Alastair Dean (BLK)
David Hawkins (KIAD)
Wayne Saunders (MC)
Tracey Manley (Ch of Com)
Contractor?Security, Catering,
IT eqpt supply & support
Our mission
The Medway Enterprise Gateway will help people
in the Region turn their creative skills and ambition into commercial success.
We offer facilities, access to business services and a network of organisations and advisors who can help young businesses to form and start to grow.
A modern working environment
3 meeting and training rooms
Exhibition space
Administrator & access control
6 hot desks with PCs
Broadband internet and email
Networking and coffee area
Hatchery layout
How do I start a creative business?
Join the network today
MEG Online
• Introduction
• Contact details
• Why and how to join
• Booking facilities and advisors
• Creative Directory
• eZine – News – Features - Events
• Networking forum
• Creative exchange- business leads and ideas
• Business directory
• Promotion to customers
An integrated Enterprise web?
Geographical Scope
Sectors Targeted
SEEDA(All Enterprise Gateways)
Medway Council(Medway Business Portal)
MEGPortal
MEG objectives
• Improve business startup rates and survival rates
• Will build data on:• Average cost of support for each startup.• Average wealth that each business brings to area - survey.
Yr1
Yr2
Yr3
C1a Jobs created 3 3 4
C4a New businesses created 3 3 4
C3a Learning opportunities 10 15 15
S1a Businesses using incubator 3 3 4
S2 Businesses receiving advice 3 3 4
S6a Adults receiving skills training 3 3 4
S7 Businesses receiving broadband 3 3 4
Current issues…
SEEDA
Contractor
BLK/MEG Steering Group Weak Liaison relationship
SEEDA
Contractor
BLK/MEG Steering Group
+ SEEDA L&P rep
… negotiating property and management relationship aspects of next phase of implementation
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• Enterprise Network – defined minimum standards, terminology, services.
• Family resemblance – Enterprise Network as a ‘silent brand’ - applied discreetly to all shared pages to show consistency of presentation, terminology etc - but not for active promotion.
• Individual pages to be classified according to sector/region and branded with owner/partner logos and contact details
• Some design variation according to target sector/location/sponsor.
• Allows individual projects to be developed independently.
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Dimensions
• Sector
• Location
• Sponsor
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We can help you go MAD!
Marketing
Doing
Administration
All underpinned by TECHNOLOGY
Vision
Gateways and Hubs
Enterprise Gateway• Business support in targeted communities• Small/early start-ups - creative sector focus in Medway • Businesses in community and incubator (80/20)• Include Social Enterprises - reinvestment• Entrepreneurship
Enterprise Hub/Innovation Centre• Knowledge-based or tech transfer/spin-off from
academia and larger companies (Greenwich Univ, BAe)• Tech resources in incubator or in ‘parent’ org• Innovation, growth
Community Enterprise Hub• Focus on voluntary/community sector
Joining MEG and progressing
Hatchery Joiner Shop Subsidised Commercial
Membership or rental cost
Progression coordinated with other facilities
Based on Time and Cost push/pull.
UK context
Nearly 15,000 design jobs were lost in the UK in 2002. Most from large consultancies employing 50 or more, who lost 32 per cent of their personnel.
Middle-ranking consultancies escaped economic gloom. Those with turnover of £100-250K were up 10%.
Design Council