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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 Goes Global: Hosting Future Conferences
Hosting Creative Clusters is a great way to
push creative economy thinking in your locality to the next level, and to showcase your achievements to the world.
Until now, the conference has been held in the UK, but now we are inviting bids from cities in all parts of the world.
Download the Request for Proposals.
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>> Conference 2008 <<
Creative Clusters 2008 (17-20 November, Glasgow) has now finished. Many thanks to everyone who took part.
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Creative Clusters takes place at a time when political and cultural change is
in the air at every level - in Scotland and further afield.
2008 has seen the launch of the UK government's 'Creative Britain' report, and the UN's global
'Creative Economy Report'. In Scotland, September sees the Scottish Broadcasting Commission's 'strategic
way forward for Scottish broadcasting', and
further debate on Creative Scotland, the new national strategic body for the arts, screen and creative sectors. Creative
Clusters will examine all of these initiatives.
Delegates are signing up fast. See who has already registered, and what they said about last year.
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>> Programme <<
Creative Clusters 2008 is the world's leading policy forum for creative economy people:
five packed days of compelling and inspiring content from leading global players.
Olivia Grange is one of Jamaica's most prolific talents: a music and publishing entrepreneur,
human rights activist, social worker, and now Jamaica's Minister of Culture. She brings her wide experience,
and a big personality, to the complex challenges of diversity, identity and development that the
growing global creative economy presents for developing nations.
Caroline Thomson is the BBC's Chief Operating Officer. As the media industry goes into a period of prolonged turbulence, the BBC is unveiling
a new multi-million pound initiative for regional audio-visual production clusters. Caroline makes a major statement
positioning the BBC at the heart of the UK creative economy.
Lewis Pinault has degrees in political science, ocean engineering, and Japanese studies.
After a stint with NASA specialising in mediation, negotiation, and alternative dispute resolution,
he is now a senior Director at LEGO, leading on business applications for team learning, creative
innovation, and collective decision-making. Fresh from Google Zeitgeist 2008, Lewis opens the
conference with an inspiring look at the need for creativity in all business.
Linda Fabiani, Scotland's Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Culture, will open the conference.
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Global Issues:
How is the growing global creative economy impacting developing nations?
| The view from smaller nations: New Zealand, Croatia, Barbados, Finland,
Denmark, Lithuania, Estonia, Tanzania, Ghana, Jamaica, Singapore.
| Festivals: how many does the world need?
UK Issues:
Update on DCMS Creative Britain report
| The changing role of media centres and workspaces for media businesses
| Public service broadcasting, and media policy for the creative economy
| Leadership: can government be creative?
Scottish Issues:
Anne Bonnar on Creative Scotland: the conceptual and political journey | Blair Jenkins on the Broadcasting Commission | Welcome address by Cabinet Secretary John Swinney
Discussion:
Should policies for the creative economy be kept separate from policies for the arts and culture?
Provocation:
Maybe most people are just not that creative?
Speculation
on technology and society: What does the future hold for the creative economy?
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Visits:
BBC Scotland's state-of-the-art digital broadcasting HQ at Pacific Quays
| Glasgow's canalside regeneration
| Glasgow School of Art's 3D Digital Design Studio
| Charles Rennie Mackintosh's House for and Art Lover
Guerilla film-making
from Nigeria and Brazil.
Cluster policies and city strategies:
Glasgow, Gateshead, Singapore, Copenhagen, Toronto, Ontario, China, Tampere, Bilbao.
UK Launch:
United Nations' first report on the global creative economy.
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Pre-conference Master-class
on Policies for Festivity and the future for festivals.
Small group workshops:
How to make your city creative
| Pitch to Hit
| Developing digital content
... and more:
your peers and colleagues from around the world, receptions,
and the chance to
build your vision of the future creative economy with LEGO
See the list of speakers, and the
programme summary.
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Themes & Agenda more...
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.
Our Hosts in Scotland are: Scottish Government |
Scottish Arts Council |
Glasgow's Concert Halls |
Scottish Enterprise |
See Glasgow
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>> What are Creative Industries? <<
Creative Industries..
- 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...
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