Insights

Since the CoSTAR investment was announced, we have established the CoSTAR National Lab as a central gateway into this distributed national infrastructure — connecting specialist R&D Labs across the UK, including the Live Lab, Realtime Lab, Screen Lab and Foresight Lab. Together, the Network provides creative businesses with access to a unique combination of facilities, research expertise and technical capability designed to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the sector.

This policy snapshot on ASEAN and the Philippines presents a high-level summary of policies and strategies related to the Creative Industries and convergent technology innovation.

Welcome to the CoSTAR Foresight Lab’s new screen sector digest, summarising events and developments in AI each quarter.

This report from the CoSTAR Foresight Lab explores how artificial intelligence is impacting the Screen Sector across different international contexts.

Policy snapshot on Australia presents a high-level summary of policies and strategies related to the CIs and convergent technology innovation.

This fourth edition of the International Scan series explores global developments in advanced technologies shaping the Creative Industries.

This publication in the Foresight series explores the future of convergent media production, shifting focus from technological possibility to lived experience and asking how creative practitioners are responding to rapid transformation in their everyday work.

This fourth edition of the International Scan series explores global developments in advanced technologies shaping the Creative Industries.

This report is an extension to our first foresight report, Introduction to Moments (December 2024), which examined plausible futures for the creative industries with a focus on three thematic complexities: machine learning, platforms and creative work.

This policy snapshot on Japan presents a high-level summary of policies and strategies related to the Creative Industries and convergent technology innovation.

This third edition of the International Scan series explores global developments in advanced technologies shaping the Creative Industries.

This report from the CoSTAR Foresight Lab explores how artificial intelligence is impacting the Screen Sector across different international contexts. Drawing on comparative case studies and consultation with policy, research and industry stakeholders, it examines emerging approaches to AI governance, regulation and adoption in practice. The report identifies key challenges and lessons for the UK, supporting evidence-based discussion on future policy development in the Creative Industries.