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Report template for practice projects and troubadour studies
The lead proposer of each study/project should ensure that this report gets filled in and returned when your project is reaching an end, or has just finished. Please feel free to include any additional material (papers, reports, submitted grant proposals etc) as appendices to this report.

"Mind the Gap: Investment Funding between start-up and high growth"
A document produced by NStar, their Design & Creative Industries Fund focuses on investing in the Creative Industries in the North-East. Further details about NStar funding can be found here.

Capitalising Creativity: Developing earned income streams in Cultural Industries organisations
by Sarah Thelwall/Proboscis
Abstract: This essay proposes a structure of organisational development which assists non-profit cultural organisations to develop earned income streams from their core intellectual capital. Developing such income streams is not simply a commercial challenge for such organisations – given that many have been built around the premise that a commercial path is neither feasible nor desirable – the challenges run far deeper. The structure suggested here recognises this and proposes an approach which allows creative and commercial activities to operate synergistically without leading to a position where one strangles the other.