2. Gordon Frazer Managing Director, Microsoft UK
WELCOME
Gordon Frazer
Managing Director, Microsoft UK 2

3. Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Intellect
Harvey Nash
e-skills UK
DTI
Dialogic Consulting
DfES
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
The City University
CBI BT
British Computer Society
BBC New Media
ARM
Ariadne Capital
Anglia Ruskin University
Amicus
University of Reading
University of Manchester
University of Kent
The Work Foundation
The Rights Marketing Company
Sinocode
Sir Digby Jones
Roger Distill
Restoration Partners
Queen Mary - University of London
Office for National Statistics
NESTA
National Entrepreneurship Observatory for Wales
Microsoft Research 3

4. IMAGINE... 4

5. Potential UK Skills Shortage
Global Growth 5

6. Knowledge Economy (KE)
UK Economic Growth
KE = 40% of GDP
50% by 2010
Fastest growth area
CE = 7.3% of GDP
Growth
Trade
Jobs
UK Economy
KE 2010
Knowledge Economy (KE)
Creative Economy(CE)
Software Economy (SE) 6

7. No ‘Computing’ GCSE in England, NI & Wales
A-Levels
5 Year Drop 43%
To 6233
No ‘Computing’ GCSE in England, NI & Wales 7

8. Innovation Supporting SMEs Industry Support IP Rights
R&D Classification
Public procurement 8

9. 9