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>> Welcome to Creative Clusters <<
Creative Clusters is an independent policy conference examining the growth of
the creative economy. We are interested in initiatives from around the world that are designed to have an impact in both cultural and economic terms.
Creative Clusters believes that creativity is the key factor driving development.
Across the world, enterprises based on individual creativity are booming. Furthermore, knowledge and culture-based activities now play a central role in the activities of all businesses. This is the era of the creative economy.
These changes are having a dramatic impact on global culture and on the economy.
Our goal is to help people engaged in the development of the creative economy to communicate and share resources with one another.
Conference 2009: Creative Clusters is taking a sabbatical: there will be no conference in 2009. We will return in 2010.
>> Creative Clusters SummerSchool: 6-9th July 2009, Huddersfield <<
Entrepreneurship, workspace and the local creative economy
The Creative Clusters SummerSchool is four days of intensive up-skilling designed for regeneration and development
managers, consultants and researchers building the creative economy at the local level:
> Managed workspaces for creative businesses
> Business support programmes for creative entrepreneurs
> Local and regional strategies for the creative economy
It is aimed at regeneration professionals who are setting up managed workspaces and support services for creative enterprises.
The course is intensely practical, and will draw on the extensive expertise and experience of creative industries regeneration in the Yorkshire region. Participants will become familiar with well-tried development tools through guided visits to model projects such as the Workstation (Sheffield) and Dean Clough (Halifax), through focus groups with entrepreneurs and interaction with senior executives. There will be continuous consideration of how these solutions might be customised for participants' own localities.
> Date: 6-9th July 2009.
> Location: based in Huddersfield, with visits to major workspace projects in the Yorkshire region.
> Standard registration: £750 +VAT (late registration is £50 extra after June 6th)
> Accommodation at £40 +VAT per night.
are based on individuals with creative arts skills
in alliance with managers and technologists
making marketable products
whose economic value lies in their cultural (or ‘intellectual’) properties
In a very literal sense, the creative industries, and the artist-entrepreneurs at the heart of them, are the manufacturers of the information economy. More...
