Creative industries: a new direction?

Kultursektoren og kreativ næring i norskøkonomi

“…i Østlandsforsknings første kartlegging i 2004), men i dag benyttes begrepene kulturell og kreativ naering, sammen eller hver for seg. Siden den første kartleggingen av naeringen i England i 1998 har det pågått en betydelig kamp om både begrepene og deres innhold, samt om naeringens avgrensing (se Haraldsen et al 2004, Garnham 2005, Potts et al 2008, O'Connor 2009, Espelien og Gran 2011, Jones et al 2015. Definisjoner av naeringen har sirklet rundt egenskaper som kreativitet, kommunikasjon (symbolsk, semiotisk, estetisk) og form/estetikk/design.…”

Developing a Creative Cluster in a Postindustrial City: CIDS and Manchester

“…Cunningham, 2004;Hesmondhalgh and Pratt, 2005;Banks and O'Connor, 2009). Summarising a more complex argument, we suggest that though the notion of creative industries does not have to be interpreted in this way (and see Cunningham (2009) for a global survey), in the UK context as least, it has allowed a de-complexification of policy, dropping those considerations external to purely economic outputs (see O'Connor, 2009). However, these economic outputs are now much more easily couched in the language of 'creativity', and hence linked to the culture-led narrative of the city.…”

Creative industries in the capital cities of the Baltic States: Are there innovations in urban policy?

“…A discussion has been growing in the theoretical discourse regarding whether the traditional structures of governance are suitable to CI due to its peculiar patterns of operation (Lange, 2009;Balducci, 2004;Kunzmann, 2004). CI challenges the structures and practices of governance in several ways, including: the blurring of borders between parties at the governance level and the intertwining of relations (Jessop, 1995;Rhodes, 1996); an increased need for cooperation, cross-sector policies (O'Connor, 2009;Throsby, 2008); the deinstitutionalization of public and private sector partnerships (Lange, 2009); and the increasing significance of the mediating institutions (Costa et al, 2008), etc. It has been argued that CI is creating new (network-based) forms of governance arrangements (Lange, 2008;Kalandides, 2007).…”