This article analyses the cultural policy implications in the United Kingdom of a shift in terminology from cultural to creative industries. It argues that the use of the term “creative industries” can only be understood in the context of information society policy. It draws its political and ideological power from the prestige and economic importance attached to concepts of innovation, informa...

Cultural heritage is an important factor in ensuring regional development. Practice has demonstrated that first sustainability of sites needs to be ensured and tourism they generate should also re-visited as current over-tourism models are unsustainable. The assumption cultural/creative industries (CCI) can a powerful tool for livability well sustainable based on experiences. In order stimulate...

Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) are increasingly recognized as part of the global economy growing importance for sustainable local development. However, exploitation their full potential depends on several issues concerning entrepreneurial dimension context where they operate. The paper deals with these having scope to investigate main determinants CCIs’ sustainability in peripheral are...

What is the dynamic value of the creative industries from the economic perspective? This paper seeks to answer this question by proposing four models of the relationship between the creative industries and the whole economy, then examining the evidence for each. We find that growth models fit the data well, but not everywhere. We discuss the methodological and empirical basis for this finding a...

Many UK museums are developing their expertise in the creation of 3D models of objects in their collection. To-date, these authentic, high-quality models have not been made available to the digital creative industries, who instead have relied on manually created models that cannot be relied on to be accurate. This paper introduces ICON, a cross-sector collaborative R&D project that is developin...