Blogs and Creative Industries

The term creative industries encompasses a broader range of activities which include the cultural industries plus all cultural or artistic production, whether live or produced as an individual unit. The creative industries are those in which the product or service contains a substantial element of artistic or creative endeavor and include activities such as architecture and advertising. Creative industries use an individual’s creativity, skill and talent for job and wealth creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property. ITC’s (International Trade Commission) assistance in creative industries targets the sectors of artisanal products, visual arts and music in developing and transition economies by adding the entrepreneurial dimension and providing technical assistance to promote trade opportunities and develop producers’ export capabilities. While working directly with artisans, artists and musicians to increase their benefits by including their creations into domestic and international value chains, ITC enhances the services of the sector’s associations to their clients and encourages the integration of creative industries into national trade development strategies.

Additionally, creative industries are a rapidly growing area worldwide. They are positioned between science, culture, economy, and technology. The wide ranges of branches are very much connected, depending on one another, combining both the social values and economic effectiveness. These industries include visual arts and crafts, cultural and natural heritage, performing arts, audiovisual and interactive media, design and creative service, books and print media, video games and many more.

Creative industries, involve design, fashion, film and video, architecture computer games, music, performing arts, publishing so forth stay in the hearth of the creative economy. They lie in the crossroad between arts, culture, economics, business and technology. They deal with “experience goods and services” that have both private as well as public value. Creative production has a collective nature, transforming the simple goods into complex one due to the uniqueness of the talents and creative labor involved. Many cultural products are durable as they have a capacity to extract revenues long after the period of their production. Their significance is not only economic but also social. Creative industries offer to audiences and buyers’ not just goods and services, but also emotions, feelings, provocations.

References

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