Introduction

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

1-2009

Abstract

The cultural and creative industries have become increasingly prominent in many policy agendas in recent years. Not only have governments identified the growing consumer potential for cultural/creative industry products in the home market, they have also seen the creative industry agenda as central to the growth of external markets. This agenda stresses creativity, innovation, small business growth, and access to global markets—all central to a wider agenda of moving from cheap manufacture towards high value-added products and services. The increasing importance of cultural and creative industries in national and city policy agendas is evident in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Australia, and New Zealand, and in more nascent ways in cities such as Chongqing and Wuhan. Much of the thinking in these cities/ countries has derived from the European and North American policy landscape.

Keywords

Cultural industries, Asia, creation, economics

Discipline

Asian Studies | Sociology of Culture | Urban Studies

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

Creative Economies, Creative Cities: Asian-European Perspectives

Editor

Kong, Lily; O'Connor, Justin

First Page

1

Last Page

5

ISBN

9781402099496

Identifier

10.1007/978-1-4020-9949-6_1

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Dordrecht

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9949-6_1

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