Creative statistics to support creative economy politics

For ten years, the Labour Party of Tony Blair popularized the notion of 'creative industries', a notion that several analysts and commentators have readily used to substitute for the concept of 'cultural industries'. Gradually, promoters of an economic strategy based on the devel...

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Published in:Media, culture & society culture & society, 2011-03, Vol.33 (2), p.289-298
Main Author: Tremblay, Gaëtan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Congresses and Conventions
Creative industries
Creative work
Crosscultural Analysis
Cultural capital
Cultural policy
Economic Development
Economic trends
Experts
Industrial development
Industry
Information society
Labor Parties
Policy Making
Political economy
Politics
Statistical analysis
Statistics
Trade
United Nations
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Summary:For ten years, the Labour Party of Tony Blair popularized the notion of 'creative industries', a notion that several analysts and commentators have readily used to substitute for the concept of 'cultural industries'. Gradually, promoters of an economic strategy based on the development of these creative industry sectors have come to generalize this notion, now speaking of the 'creative economy'. Taken up by technocrats from various countries, and even by those in the United Nations (UN), this approach has enjoyed success. Recently, in April 2008, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) made public a document written by experts whose explicit objective was to measure the degree of development of the creative economy in all regions of the world, Creative Economy Report 2008. The Challenge of Assessing the Creative Economy: Towards Informed Policy Making (UNCTAD, 2008). [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]
ISSN:0163-4437
1460-3675
DOI:10.1177/0163443710386519