Australia’s Working Group of the Prime Minister’s Engineering and Innovation Council (PMEIC) has recently published a report about the role of creativity in the innovation economy. The report starts with the observation that “what the arts, social sciences and humanities call creativity, science and technology calls invention or discovery.” The Working Group argues that the […]

A report prepared by New York’s Center for an Urban Future shows the Big Apple is slowly losing its creative set.
Although New York is still the “unrivaled center of the creative economy in the U.S.” (8.3 percent of all the people employed in creative industries work in New York)some NY creative industries have gradually lost […]

Dec. 16 2005
Press Release - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNCTAD and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Special Unit for South-South Cooperation are launching today in Shanghai a Partnership for Technical Assistance for Enhancing the Creative Economy in Developing Countries.
The launch coincides with the UN Global South-South Symposium on the Creative Economy, an […]

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics has just released a report on ‘International flows of selected cultural goods and services, 1994-2003‘.
Three countries (the United Kingdom, United States and China) produced 40 percent of the world’s cultural trade products in 2002, while Latin America and Africa together accounted for less than four percent according to the new […]

On 19 December the United Nations hold their second UN Day for south-south cooperation. This year’s theme are the creative industries. The opening segment will be chaired by Ambassador Hjalmar Hannesson, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations, Vice-President of the High Level Committee on South-South Cooperation (HLC), on behalf of Ambassador Eladio Loizaga, […]

So much for the revival of (inner) cities. ‘Look beyond the tourist districts’, Joel Kotkin writes in this lengthy article in The American Enterprise Online.
The author draws attention to the state of American cities, showing how Katrina uncovered a whole lot of urban problems that were actually being played down by all the talks about […]

Walt Disney became a very big company by adapting folk tales and turning them into copyrighted products like films and comics. Folk tales are traditional cultural expressions, expressions that are in the public domain. However, even though there may be a large and growing public domain, we have become used to the idea that all […]