Author: Dougal Perman

  • Culture’s Role In The COVID-19 Crisis

    As we explore progressively more measures to try to contain, delay, mitigate and hopefully eliminate this coronavirus, we will experience increasing restriction on travel, mass participation and human interaction.

  • Funding Resources

    Sources of funding, and information and advice relating to it, for individuals and businesses affects by the response to the coronavirus crisis.

  • Employment Resources

    Help, information, guidance and sources of funding for employers and employees including freelancers, micro businesses and SMEs.

  • Digital-First Resources

    Tools, platforms, networks and information for creative business to engage markets which are digital-first, rather than based around live attendance at events.

  • Economy Resources

    Information about the affect that the coronavirus response is having on the economy and advice for businesses.

  • Health and Wellbeing

    Health, safety and well-being information, advice and medical and scientific research relating to the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease.

  • Events Resources

    Help, guidance and advice on what to do about the impact of the Coronavirus response on events for everyone working in the supply network.

  • Music Business and the Coronavirus

    Music may be more important now than ever; but conducting business around it will undoubtedly be challenging. Among the challenges there are some opportunities. We also need to find ways to support each other and work together.

  • Productivity Tools for Freelancers

    Resources to assist freelance creative people, often working from home or remotely, with all aspects of productivity; communication, time, task and project management.

  • COVID-19 Help and Information

    The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a serious, real and present issue affecting all of us. The virus, and our necessary response to the threat it poses, will impact on every aspect of our lives, especially public health and the economy.

  • Join our new Advisory Group or Company Board

    Join our new Advisory Group or Company Board

    You work in music because you are passionate about it. You probably take an interest in what the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) is doing because you care about music business development and have something to say. If this sounds like you, we invite you to help shape our future.

  • Next steps for the development of the creative industries in Scotland: infrastructure, skills and leadership

    Next steps for the development of the creative industries in Scotland: infrastructure, skills and leadership

    Talent is the liquidity that flows through the creative economy. This is a speech that SMIA Executive Chair Dougal Perman gave at the Scotland Policy Conference on Next steps for Scotland’s creative industries: the screen sector, tourism and The Scottish Government’s Culture Strategy, which was held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 11 December…

  • Music Business Model Innovation Panel Discussion (XpoNorth 2018)

    Music Business Model Innovation Panel Discussion (XpoNorth 2018)

    In the Music Business Model Innovation session, recorded live at XpoNorth 2018 in Inverness, four respected panelists evaluated the potential that music businesses can achieve by pivoting their position in the market to access new revenue models. With reference to inspiring innovative examples of companies who have broken the mould and made it rain, Scottish…