Why Ideas matter

What are ideas worth?
Diversity: the statistics
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"Concorde started as an idea. The internet started as an idea. Every business starts with an idea." Robin Wight

What are ideas worth?

£56.5 billion¹: The value of the creative industries. That’s 8% of the UK economy, with statistically higher growth than other sectors.

£13 billion: the value of creative exports in 2004, 4.3% of all exports.

1.8 million were employed in the industry in 2005 and grew at twice the rate of employment in all other sectors²

Sources: ¹Nesta (2006). ²DCMS 2006

Our diverse scholars represent an untapped market worth £5.6 billion.

What do you see? We see: