Making creative-knowledge cities: a guide for policy makers

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Cultural officersThird Sector and Voluntary Bodies active in the development of cultural, creative and knowledge-based projects Different sections will be useful for different audiences.Throughout the guide and in section 7 at the back of the document there are links to other useful sites.These will enable practitioners to identify additional material that may be useful when deciding on policy measures for creative-knowledge cities.If we are to succeed in building competitive and sustainable economies then it is essential that we work to continuously develop 'international class' knowledge capabilities and creative potential across the European Union.And as we seek to achieve this ambition through the early twenty-first century, we must also continue to invest in deepening our understanding of competitiveness in the 'knowledge era'particularly in relation to the developmental dynamics of creativeknowledge industries and the local conditions that are required to help these businesses grow and create wealth.This 'Guide for Policy Makers' emerges from the EC FP6 Integrated Research Programme ACRE -a large-scale international comparative research programme around the theme of Accommodating Creative Knowledge and the Competitiveness of European Metropolitan Regions.This original work undertaken by 13 ACRE research teams and their city-region partners draws on the everyday 'lived' experiences across different types of European cities.As such it provides an intelligent, balanced and well-grounded picture of the possibilities, limits and challenges faced by businesses of all sizes, urban authorities and their partners as they seek to work together to harness, combine and deploy new knowledge for productive gain in highly competitive national and international markets.The ACRE 'Guide for Policy Makers' makes a timely contribution to our understanding of the very particular and often highly differentiated European conditions that must be taken into account in the design and implementation of policy aimed at stimulating the growth of knowledgebased and creative industries.While the guide's editors and their contributors wisely avoid offering overly simplistic 'recipes' or 'menus' for policy makers to follow, they clearly demonstrate that there is much to be learned from the different policy experiences presented across a blend of comparative European city-region case studies that are included.This guide should be read by leaders, executives and policy advisers across Europe's cities and regions who are looking to harness the full potential of localised creative-knowledge industries and their related activities.It makes an extremely important contribution to our understanding of how we must look to facilitate and exploit the complex interdependencies that exist between knowledge-based industries, creative endeavour and competitive European cities.

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