This report is a 60-year journey that begins in the 1940s and with the culture industry, is renamed cultural industries, and in the end, under the name creative industries, reaches 1990. An important issue in the cultural industries is the cooperation, tension, and conflict between culture and the economy. These two concepts appear separate and have different natures; so they are interpreted through terms such as cultural industries and creative industries.
In this report, the literature on the cultural industries, their background, history, and the economic effects on them are reviewed, and a comprehensive picture of the state of the cultural industries on five continents is shown. This research was based on UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) studies and related articles. The report From Cultural Industries to Creative Industries is the first experience in researching the creative industries.
In this report we read:
The process of formulating a cultural industries development strategy
Evolving concepts and definitions
Creativity
Creative goods and services
Cultural industries
Cultural economy
Creative industries
UNCTAD's classification of the creative industries
Creative economy
The creative class and creative entrepreneurs
Creative cities
Creative clusters, networks, and districts
Important drivers of the creative economy at the global level
Technology
Demand
Tourism
The multiple dimensions of the creative economy
Economic aspects
Social aspects
Cultural aspects
Sustainable development
The interdisciplinary nature of the creative industries
The need for shared inter-ministerial policies
The necessity of dialogue with multiple stakeholders
The need for effective legal mechanisms
The creative economy in the developed world
The development dimension of the creative economy
The Millennium Development Goals from the perspective of policymaking for the creative economy
The creative economy: development linkages and implications
The multifaceted aspects of the creative economy
Technological and cultural linkages
Social interactions
Common ground between traditional knowledge, art, and the creative economy
Barriers to the expansion of the creative economy
Lack of capital
Absence of entrepreneurial skills
Lack of the necessary infrastructure and laws
Creating a model for advancing the creative economy in developing countries
The creative economy in the developing world and in economies in transition
Are the creative industries the same as the cultural industries?
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