Benchmarking and understanding London’s Cultural and Creative Industries
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This paper describes the Greater London Authority’s evidence base for its work on the creative and cultural industries. Its main purpose is to show that th9is evidence base is viable, robust, and useful. The second and most important purpose is to encourage others in city management to invest in such evidence bases, and to compile them on a comparable basis. It will be some while before this is done by international agencies, and that national agencies are only at the start of a long journey in recognising the importance of city data. Hence, I argue in this paper, a responsibility devolves onto the cities themselves. This paper is about those responsibilities. The paper was originally presented to the Conference Board of Canada at its March 2008 international conference on the creative industries, and, along with the conference proceedings, can be obtained from the conference board via www.e-library.ca. or www.conferenceboard.caDownload Info
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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 14776.Length:
Date of creation: 26 Mar 2008
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Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:14776
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Keywords: cultural economics; creative industries; innovation; internet;Find related papers by JEL classification:
- Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics
- Z11 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economics of the Arts and Literature
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:
- NEP-ALL-2009-04-25 (All new papers)
- NEP-CUL-2009-04-25 (Cultural Economics)
- NEP-TUR-2009-04-25 (Tourism Economics)
- NEP-URE-2009-04-25 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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- Freeman, Alan, 2005. "Towards a common standard: comparing European and American cities," MPRA Paper 18104, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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