Future Forming: A Rethink on the Creative Economy

This paper is about the ‘creative industries’, an unloved and 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...

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Main Authors: Li, Siling, Wen, W.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience/article/view/87/164
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16851
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description This paper is about the ‘creative industries’, an unloved and 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 – enables us to gain new insights into emergent cultural and economic forces that are shaping our future – social, cultural and economic.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-168512017-05-30T08:14:24Z Future Forming: A Rethink on the Creative Economy Li, Siling Wen, W. This paper is about the ‘creative industries’, an unloved and 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 – enables us to gain new insights into emergent cultural and economic forces that are shaping our future – social, cultural and economic. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16851 http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience/article/view/87/164 restricted
spellingShingle Li, Siling
Wen, W.
Future Forming: A Rethink on the Creative Economy
title Future Forming: A Rethink on the Creative Economy
title_full Future Forming: A Rethink on the Creative Economy
title_fullStr Future Forming: A Rethink on the Creative Economy
title_full_unstemmed Future Forming: A Rethink on the Creative Economy
title_short Future Forming: A Rethink on the Creative Economy
title_sort future forming: a rethink on the creative economy
url http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience/article/view/87/164
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16851