Vacancies - BOP is recruiting, we are looking to appoint Research Consultants, and a part-time Bookkeeper / Finance Officer.

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Vacancies: We are seeking to appoint outstanding candidates at Consultant and Researcher levels. Applicants are required to support projects across our full portfolio, though we are specifically interested in strengthening certain areas of our practice in economics, media and quantitative analysis.

Successful applicants will have a combination of both quantitative and qualitative research skills, be excellent communicators, and have a thirst for a demanding but rewarding working life. They will need to enjoy working as part of a team in a small company environment, . . .

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'BOP at c/o POP' - BOP Director Paul Owens is moderating at this year's Creative Business Convention, taking place in Cologne on 23-25 June. C'n'B is part of c/o POP, Germany's largest urban music and media festival which attracts over 30,000 visitors every year. Paul will lead dicussions on new strategies and business models for the creative industries in the digital age. His keynote interviewees and panelists include Cristiana Falcone Sorrell (Director, Outreach, World Economic Forum), Joerg Grabosch (CEO, Brainpool), and Dieter Gorney (President, European Centre for Crea . . .

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'BOP to measure the impact of the Edinburgh Festivals'. The project will measure the impact of all the twelve Edinburgh Festivals on the city of Edinburgh and on Scotland as whole. It will cover economic gains as well as social and cultural benefits and environmental outcomes to produce a valuable report on one of the biggest festival programmes in the world. To read more please click here

BOP Report on Intellectual Property Published: - Policymakers need to acknowledge a range of factors affecting people’s decisions to acquire digital content through different channels. Previous research and policy decisions have been heavily biased towards issues around legality, resulting in a failure to fully understand the motives driving digital content consumption.

This report, commissioned by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP), forms part of their national research agenda designed to provide sound, objective policy adv . . .

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