New Economy - Cultural and Creative

From Peter Gillies

What is cultural economy?

Outputs that serve at least in part the purposes of self-edification, entertainment, self affirmation … (Alan Scott the cultural economy of Paris)

Characterized by small companies networked – with increasing penetration by big companies. Local labour markets – a “haven for artists”. Increasingly diverse buyer markets.

What is happening in creative and cultural economic development?

A broad interpretation of creativity – marries technology, specific business expertise and entrepreneurships, and environment and culture (the creative Tempere project tempere Finland)

Creative Entrepreneur Development – helping to develop business skills, industry leadership and market growth among professionals in the creative industries (British Council international creative entrepreneur program)

Ubiquitous Learning -– a wired society, development of learning in all community institutions and functionality of those institutions (university of Illinois new learning)

Creative clustering – mapping of urban areas to determine cultural and creative assets and assessing the cost/benefit of cluster development (Artscape Toronto)

Measuring the value of culture – putting a value on culture - contingent evaluation – (Patrimoine Canada has studies – Stan Rogers fest in Nova Scotia)

Implications for Wakefield/LaPêche/Outaouais


A Season of Festivals – a partnership between the festivals to lever resources, develop new and cross over markets, stimulate new product development, help to develop fall shoulder season activities to support extended HCW train sked

The LaPêche Institute for Creative Learning – A program of learning activities for professional and personal development that levers existing (and future) infrastructure, human expertise, and learning environment assets such outdoors and heritage. Levers the community and cultural centre, centre de la paix, soupcon culinary school....

Wakefield World City – A program of linkages between citizens of LaPêche and the world. Levers the sister city project, the language school, the growing two-way arts and entertainment traffic....