What better way to relaunch The Idea Feed than with a link to a post by Richard Florida? I’ve spent the better part of the past year studying, researching and learning about the creative economy of the United States. It’s not an easy beast to tame but I feel a little more confident in...
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The Idea Feed – V 4.0
London’s Strategic Cultural Industries Agency
“Creative London is part of the London Development Agency (the Mayor’s agency for economic development). Our policies, programmes and ideas are based on hard industry facts – the rich findings of a six-month inquiry by the Mayor’s Commission on the Creative Industries. Plumber From those findings, the Commission identified common bottlenecks to the success...
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How art follows money: why London is gaining on New York
…”They explain the current position of London as a magnet for the super-wealthy, who want to live, work and consume in the capital. London, says the report, is becoming more attractive to companies because of the US’s stricter immigration policies. It also says the US regulatory framework is “a thicket of complicated rules†and...
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A Creative Industry Primer
The creative economy movement started in the UK in 1994. Follow the links to understand how national cultural policy became creative industry policy and how it's now changing the world.