In the electronic version of Prospect, October 2005 issue, Joel Kotkin makes a strong argument against creative city strategies that are based on creating hip environments.
Read the article in Prospect.

Last week, the Dutch ICT-weekly ‘Automatiseringsgids’ quoted Dutch Minister for Economic Affairs (Mr. Laurens-Jan Brinckhorst) as he said that creative industries offer a chance for Dutch business. In particular, Minister Brinckhorst mentioned design and the games industry. He signalled three problems that need to be addressed:
1. Creative industries are highly ‘individualized’ (a lot of small-scale […]

Yet another chapter in Britain’s campaign to export the British way of dealing with creative industries to other countries. While helping Lebanon to map its creative industries, the British Council simultaneously is working to open up new avenues for British (creative) business in Lebanon.
Here is the article from the Daily Star in Lebanon.

With New Orleans looking like a ghost city debates have started about the future of the hard-hit metropolis. According to Business Week broadly three visions about the new New Orleans are starting to take shape. In the first one, New Orleans recovers primarily on the basis of cultural heritage (in particular: music). Creative industries and […]

After honouring the first Moon landing Google now brings recent images of Katrina’s trail of devastation in New Orleans directly to your computer screen. Click here to go directly to yet another innovative application of Google Maps.

A comparatively lengthy article in the Bangkok Post today about creative industries in Thailand. It mainly deals with the movie industry, outlining the differences between Thailand and the ’success model’ of South Korea. The article also finds that
the state’s attitude towards the movies is different in Asia and Europe, Kim says. In Europe, many governments […]

A couple of weeks ago Businessweek outlined the US’ transition from a knowledge economy to a creativity economy (see this post). According to Businessweek the new core competences in the US economy are creativity, imagination and innovation. It is no longer just about knowledge resulting from scientific research.
Following Apple’s example, then, we would expect to […]