Abstract
A decade has passed since Tony Blair’s New Labour popularized the notion of ‘creative industries’, an expression that some analysts and commentators do not hesitate to use as a substitute for the concept of cultural industries. Advocates of an economic strategy based on developing ‘creative industrial sectors’ have gradually started talking of a ‘creative economy’. Taken up by technocrats from several countries, and even by the UN, this approach has rapidly spread. In April 2008 the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published a document aimed at measuring the degree of development of the creative economy in all regions of the world: Creative Economy Report 2008. The Challenge of Assessing the Creative Economy: towards Informed Policy-Making.
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Tremblay, G. (2015). Cultural Industries, Creative Economy and the Information Society. In: Albornoz, L.A. (eds) Power, Media, Culture. Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137540089_4
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