In October last year I wrote about a Dutch policy report titled ‘Our creative capacity’. The report outlines the main ambitions of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science with respect to creative industries. At that time the report was only available in Dutch. Meanwhile the report has […]

Here is an interesting report of a round table meeting on educating for the creative economy. The meeting was organised by Creative Partnerships, in association with the Smith Institute.
The British are really impassionedly exploring what the private sector expects of the creative skills of young creative workers. They do not limit their focus to the […]

An action plan to consult with the creative sector on ways Auckland City can help creative industries fulfil their economic potential for the city has been endorsed by the council’s Economic Development and Sustainable Business Committee.
The plan “Creative Action” details strategies for three main objectives aimed at increasing the visibility of Auckland’s creative industries, supporting […]

With all the talk about the economic potential of creative industries dominating current discourse one could easily forget how creative work is also used for political goals.
Last Friday Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso proposed to grant a ‘Nobel Prize’ for foreign ‘manga’ cartoon artists and to award talented Japanese the title of ‘Anime Ambassador‘.
In the […]

Invitation to join “ci-l”, a new email list on the “creative industries”
MyCreativity: International Network of Creative Industries Researchers & Practitioners
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On November 17-18, 2006 the Institute of Network Cultures and the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster will organise MyCreativity, a Convention of International Creative Industries Researchers. MyCreativity is […]

Have a look at the latest British initiative:
What is the Creative Economy Programme?
“The Creative Economy Programme is the first step in achieving our goal of making the UK the world’s creative hub. The Programme is centered around seven issues that are the key drivers of productivity in the creative industries. We have created groups for […]

Updated: 17:00
The P2P Workshop has closed
Creative Industries and technology are growing further towards each other in Amsterdam today. Researchers from Delft University of Technology just presented the newest P2P-software, called Tribler. Tribler is fully compatible with BitTorrent, but includes a number of features unique to P2P-software. In particular Tribler builds on top of social networks. […]

Creative industries also rank high on the agenda in Jamaica. However, it should come as no surprise that creative industries in the Carribean region are not the main worry of politicians and policy makers. Even when keeping in mind that (as Miranda La Rose observes in Stabroek News) “in the Jamaican economy cultural artist Sean […]

KL travelled to Vienna this week as Creative industries rank high on the top-European political agenda. In the opening address at the ‘Austrian Presidency Expert Seminar: Content for competitiveness’ Neelie Kroes (Member of the European Commission in charge of Competition Policy) argued that
“The content industry is ever more in the vanguard of the digital […]

Here’s something we all know intuitively. Badly designed office space has a negative effect on worker statisfaction.
A report produced by CABE in partnership with the British Council of Offices and the British Property Federation discusses some best practices in ‘office design’. According to the authors there are six basic principles for designing an office where […]