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WHITE SPACES INNOVATION IN SWEDENFigure 3.5 Broader Skåne Media Cluster to which Media Evolution EDCO RelatesSource: Centre for Advanced StudiesThe principal tasks of EDCO involve interacting with the broader Region SkåneMedia Cluster (Fig. 3.5), acting as a conduit of EU Structural Funds allocations throughSwedish economic development agency (Tillväxtverket, former Nutek) and also withfunding from its national cluster program, connecting Media Evolution‟s more than onehundred „convergence-focused‟ firm members (subscription SEK1-8,000 per year),including Ericsson Multimedia, publishing companies, advertising agencies and a regionalbank. These connect to the MINC incubator, Malmö University Living Laboratories,the Nordic Game programme, and the Film i Skåne initiative (Fig. 3.5). The Net-Port game business development organisation unites the interests of Karlshamn township,the games industry and Blekinge Institute of Technology, and „Learning Business‟,a network of companies involved in media and e-learning. Among the „shocks‟ confrontingMedia Evolution are the ICT corporate downsizing and entrepreneurship issuesfaced also in Mobile Heights and the rapid emergence of convergence requirementsacross Sweden‟s Modern Times Group (MTG) with its multi-channel, satellite and cabledemands and changing UX-UI and Internet protocol TV (IPTV) expectations for downloadingto iPads, iPhones and other digital devices.48