Questions from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport:
4.12 Culture - The role of digital culture and AI adoption, future engagement and business models
4.12d What is the investment landscape and who are the key actors in the UK’s digital cultural infrastructure? What are the barriers and opportunities, including bottlenecks in the value chain for digital dissemination and consumption?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.12 Culture - The role of digital culture and AI adoption, future engagement and business models
4.12c How can digital consumption be better defined, measured and valued to understand if it is meaningful engagement? How can digital demand be measured and valued to understand meaningful engagement, encompassing social, cultural, and economic impacts? How does this differ from or complement physical engagement?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.12 Culture - The role of digital culture and AI adoption, future engagement and business models
4.12b What are the barriers to digital market entry for freelance artists and smaller creative organisations, and what policies could level commercial opportunities beyond larger institutions and London? What are the barriers to freelance artists developing equitable R&D relationships with technology companies that enable access to cutting-edge technologies?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.11 Culture - The drivers of productivity in cultural sectors and the impact of the sectors on economic growth and productivity
4.11j To what extent have investments in buildings/infrastructure (new buildings, expansion/maintenance or repurposing for cultural use) led to social and economic regeneration of an area?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.11 Culture - The drivers of productivity in cultural sectors and the impact of the sectors on economic growth and productivity
4.11h What is the structure of the UK commercial art market, and how does it contribute to the wider economy, and what barriers are limiting its future growth?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.11 Culture - The drivers of productivity in cultural sectors and the impact of the sectors on economic growth and productivity
4.11g What common features are associated with organisations making the largest economic contribution within a cultural sub-sector, and what lessons can be drawn for future growth policy?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.11 Culture - The drivers of productivity in cultural sectors and the impact of the sectors on economic growth and productivity
4.11f How does creative knowledge and creativity (R&D) move between publicly- and privately-funded culture and different sub-sectors (e.g. between theatre and film), and different scales (e.g. freelancers and SMEs). What are the measurable economic impacts, e.g. domestic revenue creation and exports? How can creative freelancers and microbusinesses be supported to invest in R&D?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.11 Culture - The drivers of productivity in cultural sectors and the impact of the sectors on economic growth and productivity
4.11e What data sources/methodological approaches can be used to track/value innovation and knowledge transfer between organisations within the cultural sector? Specifically, how are innovations transferred from subsidised organisations to commercial organisations?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.11 Culture - The drivers of productivity in cultural sectors and the impact of the sectors on economic growth and productivity
4.11d What is the investment landscape (including foreign direct investment) and who are the key investors in the UK’s cultural sector? What are the barriers and opportunities for investing in the cultural sector?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.11 Culture - The drivers of productivity in cultural sectors and the impact of the sectors on economic growth and productivity
4.11c Does movement of labour between sub-sectors create innovation and creative spillovers? Does movement of labour between sub-sectors create knowledge and human capital spillovers?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.11 Culture - The drivers of productivity in cultural sectors and the impact of the sectors on economic growth and productivity
4.11b What methodological approaches and data sources are most effective for mapping the cultural economy ecosystem? Which cultural sectors are growing, mature or contracting?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.10 Culture - Methodological approach to valuation and implementation (inc Capital Accounting)
4.10g How do we build capacity across the sector to understand and apply the Culture and Heritage Capital programme, and better integrate its evidence into planning, regeneration and infrastructure?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.10 Culture - Methodological approach to valuation and implementation (inc Capital Accounting)
4.10f Explore the intersections and overlaps between natural capital and culture and heritage capital, and how this relationship can be integrated into valuation and policy frameworks.
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.10 Culture - Methodological approach to valuation and implementation (inc Capital Accounting)
4.10e How can economic valuation techniques (contingent valuation, hedonic pricing, wellbeing valuation, etc.) be improved, including bias mitigation and developments to attain methodological robustness and contextual sensitivity of benefit transfer?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.10 Culture - Methodological approach to valuation and implementation (inc Capital Accounting)
4.10d What new methodological approaches could improve measurement of the impact of culture and heritage on individuals and society, including through a Culture and Heritage Capital services approach?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026
4.10 Culture - Methodological approach to valuation and implementation (inc Capital Accounting)
4.10c How can we develop a culture and heritage capital account that measures, values, and tracks the contributions of cultural assets to society, the economy, and wellbeing over time?
Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 2026