Innovation and creativity in creative industries

Abstract

Creativity is the intentional combination of symbols, ideas, or objects in a way that is unexpected for a given audience.While creativity is a process, innovation is the outcome of this process. Moving from the macro-level to the micro-level, I survey the literature on innovation and creativity in creative industries, spanning cultural, economic, and organizational sociology as well as management studies. As a broader market force, uncertainty over innovativeness results in powerful status orders with each creative industry. Within these markets, creative producers work to situate their products as innovative within certain categories and breadths of categories. Creative producers' social network configurations and their face-to-face interactions within these networks shape both the process of creative collaboration and the resulting innovations. Producers' moment-to-moment valuations, modes of cognition, and interactions with material properties of creative products also influence the creative process. I argue that future research should give more attention to how decisions in the creative process evolve over time and are relationally shaped.

Platformed cultural production and calibration in the Covid-19 pandemic

“…Rather, the COVID-19 pandemic can tell us a great deal about cultural production including and especially about the obstacles and opportunities that typify production processes and creative labour in the digital era. On the one hand, exogenous shocks ( DiMaggio and Powell, 1983 ) like those brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic can significantly alter the conditions that shape cultural production and creative labour as well as the precariousness that characterizes this work ( Banks, 2007 ; Gill and Pratt, 2008 ; Hesmondhalgh, 2019 ; Neff et al, 2005 ; Wohl, 2021 ). On the other hand, platformed cultural production is highly responsive to these shocks and the changes they engender.…”

“…In recent years, these scholars have turned to a cast of aspiring and established creatives, and their respective position-takings across cultural industries ( Hesmondhalgh, 2006 ). This includes a look towards industries such as art, music, theatre and film ( Kleppe, 2017 ; Peters and Roose, 2022 ; Wohl, 2019 ), and to the organizational characteristics and conditions that typify creative labour and cultural production ( Wohl, 2021 ).…”

“…As Ursell (2000) shows in their investigation of television production, industry dynamics force young creatives to vie for attention in a highly competitive and unpredictable market in which ‘all hits are flukes’ ( Bielby and Bielby, 1994 ). This is true for cultural workers across creative industries where ‘aesthetic uncertainty’ and risk are especially high ( Hoppe, 2020 ; Wohl, 2021 ) and where ‘consumer demand is fundamentally unknown’ ( Godart and Mears, 2009 : 672; see also Hirsch, 1972 ).…”

A Computational Approach to Identifying Engineering Design Problems

“…Only one participant who showed interest is disqualified based on not meeting the criteria of educational background. The creativity "understanding" in the eligibility is important because creativity as a phenomenon for coming up with something new and useful is strongly correlated with EDPE [84][85][86][87][88].…”

Criatividade e inovação no ambiente de trabalho de professores de cursos técnicos e profissionalizantes

“…Esses resultados sugerem que quanto mais os professores percebem Research, Society and Development, v. 11, n. 17, e175111738648, 2022 (CC BY 4.0) | ISSN 2525-3409 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org /10.33448/rsd-v11i17.38648 6 dimensões importantes do ambiente de trabalho como incentivo, desafio, recursos, suporte, liberdade e pressões realistas mais eles acreditam que produzem trabalho criativo e que trabalham numa instituição criativa. De fato, pesquisas recentes destacam a relevância do ambiente para a criatividade, assim como a importância do gestor e dos colegas de trabalho para promover o trabalho criativo (Amabile, 2019;Ferizovic, 2015;Lee & Yoo, 2020;Wohl, 2022;Wróbel et al, 2021). Cada vez mais evidencia-se a necessidade de estimular a criatividade e a inovação no ambiente empresarial e acadêmico para que o potencial criativo se desenvolva e alcance níveis elevados de performance, dada a necessidade de as organizações responderem ao ambiente em mudança (Kalar, 2020;Lee & Yoo, 2020;Santos et al, 2020).…”