“The Knowlegde Economy as we know it is being eclipsed by something new - call it the Creativity Economy. Even as policymakers and pundits wring their hands over the outsourcing of engineering, software writing, accounting, and myriad other high-tech, high-end service jobs - not to mention the move of manufacturing to Asia - U.S. companies […]

While salaries are rising only moderately in many European countries, creative industries staff in New Zealand are expecting a ‘pay boom’.
Find out more in The New Zealand Herald.

A survey conducted by British research firm The Leading Question reveals that people who regularly download or share unlicensed music are increasingly enthusiastic buyers of digital music. On average the ‘pirates’ spend four and a half times as much on buying music online as those who are not active in p2p-networks.
Read opinions about the findings:
The […]

Here’s a rather cryptic description of a new London School for Computing for the Creative Industries:
“The learner-practitioner is the heart and life-blood of the School. We recognise that the creative professional of the future - the new creative - has a distinctive skill-set and an easy relationship with technology. The new creative is a connected […]

Most of today’s debates about the so-called creative class tend to focus on downtown areas or center cities. (For instance read this critical account.) This morning I came across this column by Patrick Holmes about the creative class in the Rocky Mountains area. It is a commentary based on a kind of state of the […]

In cultural and urban studies a lot has been written about Richard Florida’s creative capital theory. Now it appears that Florida’s thesis has also found its way to medical science. In a recent paper published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR) Dr. Behrendt argues that doctors of chiropractic neatly fit into the […]

On July 20, 1969, man first landed on the Moon. A few decades later, Google is pleased to cut you in on the action.
A lot of activity going on at Google’s. As an extension of Google maps and Google earth, Google now takes to space. Google Moon enables users to zoom in on the spots […]

The doctor beats the famous footballer and movie star. Yet, in the overall score creative occupations are the most wanted ‘dream jobs’.
A recent survey by Creative and Cultural Skills (one of 25 industry-specific sector skills councils in the UK) shows that of over 2,000 employees almost a third specified some type of creative career as […]

It’s only Monday, but I’ve already found my favorite quote of the week:
Declaring Melbourne to be Australia’s number-one city for every conceivable human endeavour other than sunbathing would be the stuff of comedy if it were not for the fact that Melbourne’s status as Australia’s comedy capital is something even the comedians take very seriously.
Interesting […]

France will spend a total of 1.5 billion euros on the development of competitive and innovative (spatial) clusters in the coming three years. Yesterday, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced that of 105 project applications, 67 plans have been approved. The ‘poles de competitivite’ have been largely inspired by Calfinornia’s Silicon Valley. The idea […]