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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.
>> Creative Clusters 2008, Glasgow <<
Creative Clusters 2008 takes place in Glasgow from 17th to 20th November. This is the first time that the conference has taken place in Scotland.
Since its exceptionally successful year as European Capital of Culture in 1990, Glasgow has been widely admired for its approach to cultural regeneration. With the award of the Commonwealth Games 2014, Glasgow now enters a new phase of development. And over Scotland as a whole, political and cultural change is in the air at every level. Creative Clusters 2008 will reflect on, and contribute to, these developments.
The creative economy in smaller nations. For small nations, what strategies, and what practical policy measures, will help identify and develop a competitive advantage? What makes a 'Creative Nation'?
The moving image goes online: harnessing global media for the regional economy. How can cities and regions attract the next generation of audio-visual producers?
Policies for festivity: the creative economy and live events. We discuss the revival of the live event, and examine how policy-makers around the world are helping their events and festivals to prosper.
Strategic leadership in the creative economy. In a sector built equally upon input from business, culture and technology, who provides policy leadership?
The long story of Glasgow's creative economy. Twenty years on from the Garden Festival, we take stock, and ask where Glasgow might be in 2028.
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...
