Question reference: S5W-15841
- Date lodged: 9 April 2018
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Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 26 April 2018
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what support it has provided to the software and electronic publishing sector since 2008.
Answer
Scottish Enterprise can provide data for the past 5 years which shows that over that time period (to the end of the financial year 2016-2017) they have invested just under £28 million (£27.9 million) in software and electronic publishing.
During this period Creative Scotland has supported projects that align with their stated priorities and involve businesses in the software and electronic publishing sector as partners in creative projects. However, they have no specific funding schemes for digital businesses, nor do they routinely capture SIC codes of applicants in order to report against sub-sectors of the creative industries. All Regularly Funded Organisations are expected to describe how they engage with this sub-sector as part of their Digital Connecting Theme and Creative Scotland has in the past also run time-limited programmes that were open to applications from the sector, i.e. The Innovation and Light Bytes programmes.