Public policies for the development of digital content industry: an international prospective

Abstract

This research has been an analysis of public policies for the development of the digital content industry developed in Germany, UK, France and Italy (countries close to our cultural, economic and political) and Israel and the United States (countries with high development of digital content sector). The analysis of policy measures in these countries has identified three lines of action: creating and fostering entrepreneurial centers, finding new ways to deliver content to specific programs demand and internationalization. For each action line describes specific policy measures in the countries under comparison that, according to national and international experts, have had an impact on the development of the digital content industry in selected countries and could be of interest for application to the content sector in Spain.