CS250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Creative Class, Richard Florida, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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What is the creative economy: what does creativity mean to you, creating, transforming, how are the creative industries defined, uk 1998 british government established creative industries mapping. Document those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and have potential for wealth and job creation and exploitation of. Another definition: creative industries combine individual creativity and the mass production of symbolic cultural goods . Policy definition: positions or priorities that guide how the state uses its resources, institutions and taxpayers" money to intervene in, shape or otherwise affect the creative industries as a sector. Growing concern about declining manufacturing sector, un-employment, globalization. Creative industries provide rising economy, more jobs and production of arts. Cultural sector gives means to produce public funding for the arts defending culture. New degrees, ba"s focused on creative indsutries: not very often that government made term goes viral, but that is what happened from north america all the way to africa.