The challenges

Business models in hit-driven markets also shift constantly as the majority follow breakout innovations and successes by a smaller minority. The extent to which these challenges can be addressed continues to impact on their growth. This is happening against the backdrop of other nations expanding their creative economies and capitalising on new and emerging markets.

Business challenges like these are often expressed as Market Failures.

Key challenges for smaller independent games developers in our Community include:

• the availability and diversity of home and international talent working in the UK,
• the relevance or otherwise of education and skills programmes,
• the availability of working capital and dependencies on international platforms and publishers.

About:

UK Games Talent and Finance

UKGTF is a non-profit Community Interest Company with a legal remit to support the UK’s early stage games development and digital interactive business and creative ecosystem in terms of both companies and individuals.

The business & creative ecosystem

The word ecosystem means a complex system, resembling that of biological systems, composed of all of the organisms found in a particular physical environment interacting with it and each other. Research has noted that where this is applied to the management of innovation there can be different perspectives such as industrial ecology, business ecosystems, platform management and multi-actor networks. UKGTF’s work straddles each and all of these perspectives but mainly in the context of trying to create win/win symbiotic relationships between network actors and boundaries.