Most exciting innovations appear in ‘cross-overs’ between disciplines. In the city of Tilburg (the 6th largest city in the southern part of the Netherlands), a new regional initiative ‘MindLabs’... read more →
In 1991, Kazachstan in central Asia became independent of the former USSR. Since that time, the 8th largest country in the world rapidly developed. In 1997 the former capital city... read more →
Creative Industries have widely been recognized since about fifteen years. In 2002 Richard Florida published his book The rise of the Creative Class, which was a starting point for policy development... read more →
Researchers and practitioners suffer alike when it comes to cross-overs between creative industries and other sectors in the wider economy: Insights and empirical results are lacking to derive a theory... read more →
Creative industries are nowadays often viewed from an economic perspective: what is the economic value of creative industries? Next to economic value, societal value may be even more important. Think... read more →
Preferred behavior The area of brain, cognition and behavior is upcoming, and highly relevant to creative industries. In the design of new processes, products and services, we often design for... read more →
What will be the impact of digitalization on Creative Industries? How to deal with exclusion; the fading of the middle class, and driven by the creative class? These two trends... read more →
Creative industries are stimulated at a European, national and regional level. At a European level, some policy instruments are specifically geared at creative industries, think of Creative Europe. At a... read more →
In the Netherlands, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science together with the Ministry of Economic Affairs developed policy in order to stimulate creative industries. These two Ministries represent the... read more →
In the Netherlands nine so-called topsectors have been appointed by the Minister of Economic Affairs in order to ensure a strong economic infrastructure, now and in the future. These topsectors... read more →