Media & Marketing: Burgeoning Talent Breaking the Capital Stranglehold ; Media and Marketing Asked You Whether Birmingham and the Region Can Match London As a Creative Centre. Here, We Carry a Selection of Your Views, and Below Nick Carson, Deputy Editor of the Ideas Factory in Birmingham - Which Helps Develop Young Talent - Says You Don't Have to Be Based in London to Be Creative

Birmingham Post › August 29, 2005

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It's the wrong approach to try to compare any regional city with the Capital on the same terms.

Undeniably London has a significantly larger infrastructure and a better-established international reputation, but people are mobile now. Broadband has closed gaps.

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Media & Marketing: Burgeoning Talent Breaking the Capital Stranglehold ; Media and Marketing Asked You Whether Birmingham and the Region Can Match London As a Creative Centre. Here, We Carry a Selection of Your Views, and Below Nick Carson, Deputy Editor of the Ideas Factory in Birmingham - Which Helps Develop Young Talent - Says You Don't Have to Be Based in London to Be Creative

If the talent's there, the barriers have gone.

Design agency Boxer, based in the small, green village of Coleshill in Warwickshire, landed a packaging contract recently. It was a big one. It was a very big one.

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