Future Forming: A Rethink on the Creative Economy

Abstract

Creative industries: A spent or emergent force?This paper is about the 'creative industries', an unloved yet fiercely debated concept that originated in the UK, developed in Australia, and has been taken up in China and other emerging markets around the world.Countering the notion that the creative industries are becoming a spent force, we argue that, reimagined on an entirely bigger scale, shifting our focus of enquiry away from industries themselves and back on creativity, on where it comes from, how it connects people and what it is used for, the idea of creative industries -or more accurately the creative economy 1 -enables us to gain new insights into emergent cultural and economic forces that are shaping our future -social, cultural and economic. Reimagining Creative Industries: A Systems ApproachTracing the origin and evolution of the creative industries idea, we find a widely accepted version reads as follows:Creative industries have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent.They have the potential to create wealth and jobs through the generation and use of intellectual property.Creative industries can include music, performing

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 3 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.