David Rice - Latest Comments in Ways to Boost Irelands Homegrown Creative & Technology Industries

Re: Ways to Boost Irelands Homegrown Creative & Technology Industries

John Ryan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:06:00 -0000

A shared workspace is something I'm really hoping to look into over the next couple of months.

As Matt & Anton say, I reckon something like that you just have to get off your feet and do it.

Come the beginning of March, I'm hoping to start getting some names, a proposal and start pricing some workspaces, etc.

If anyone's interested drop me a mail.

Re: Ways to Boost Irelands Homegrown Creative & Technology Industries

David Rice — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:28:00 -0000

Matt, that's interesting good points on your blog article too.

Anton, totally right. That's what I'm getting at, the onus is on all of us to create the industry we want to work in.

Lets make this happen.

Re: Ways to Boost Irelands Homegrown Creative & Technology Industries

Anton Mannering — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:03:00 -0000

Hi David, I agree absolutely with the sentiment, the one thing I will say is that we need to stop looking to government or outside bodies to do these things for us.
For example, If there's a market for a co-working space then why don't YOU set it up? If there isn't a market for it then in my view it shouldn't be set up at all. If you don't want to, then show a property developer how it'll make money. This is turning into an essay so I'll leave it there.
I'll be putting up a blog post about my perspective on this in a while as it's a great topic. Thanks for getting the debate going.

Re: Ways to Boost Irelands Homegrown Creative & Technology Industries

mattj — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:45:00 -0000

I created a business plan about 18 months ago for a shared workspace but couldn't get funding at the time. I think, in retrospect, the idea was a little too ambitious for what Belfast has to offer but I still read over it every now and then.

So - where do we go from here. I'm very much into the ideas of co-working, bedouin workspaces, ubiquitous wireless.

So where do we want to go today?

Re: Ways to Boost Irelands Homegrown Creative & Technology Industries

Andy — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:31:00 -0000

Totally with you - a co-working space to nurture creative talent in Northern Ireland makes so much sense, especially with the amount of investment going on. The sooner, the better in my opinion.