Canny creativity

For those of us in creative industries - for example, musicians, screenwriters, performers, poets, painters, designers, craftspeople, inventors, novelists and sculptors - the economy is always going to be challenging.

ScotSkills now provides a palette of business skills tailored to help channel your creativity into making a decent living. We cover:

• Your relationship with money
• Your motivations and objectives
• Social enterprises and other forms of business
• Getting more (and better) ideas
• Protecting your ideas
• Marketing your work creatively (internationally, online and offline)
• Negotiations to make better deals and business relationships
• Grants, sponsorship, competitions and prizes
• Cottage industries of the future (inc. desktop manufacture)
• Building a portfolio career

The ScotSkills entrepreneurship programme has recently welcomed its 1000th alumnus and has been directly involved in the formation of many bootstrapped businesses.