The South Yorkshire Creative and Digital Industries (CDI) sector employs over 25,000 industry professionals and is home to world leading businesses that are front runners in their field. Overall the South Yorkshire CDI sector alone has an aggregate turnover exceeding £1bn.

The businesses that make up the CDI sector are diverse, ranging from software developers, systems integrators and hardware suppliers to creative specialists in arts, entertainment and new media. What they all share in common are markets and products underpinned by digital technologies.

Find out about some of the specialist areas where South Yorkshire companies are taking a lead:

> e-Learning_
> Digital Arts and Entertainment_
> New Media and e-Business_
> Applications and Infrastructure_

d-SY is focused on supporting the CDI cluster as it’s know. Why cluster? It’s a well researched, practical concept about strength in numbers and the value of collaboration as well as competition. Clusters of companies in the same industry gathered together can share facilities and expertise, develop more sophisticated supply chains and bid for bigger contracts. That’s already evidenced in the e-learning supply chain in South Yorkshire where a number of local companies work with Ufi leandirect providing the underlying learning management technology as well as leading edge content.

Yorkshire Forward and Objective 1 South Yorkshire both have cluster strategies for supporting economic growth. To find out more visit:

> Yorkshire Forward_
> Objective 1 South Yorkshire_

For information on CDI activity in Yorkshire, visit:

> Digital Yorkshire_
> Creative Yorkshire_
> Creative Portal_