This report is an economic analysis of the creative industries in the UK, carried out for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in 2007. It was a collaborative analysis by the Work Foundation with support from NESTA.
The Work Foundation was commissioned to undertake an analysis of the nature of the creative industries - their size, the factors that have shaped their comparative success in recent years, and the challenges they face in the years ahead.
One important objective was to attempt to see what binds the creative industries together, recognising that, as in any other sector, there are wide variations between members. The creative industries face many similar challenges to business more generally, but they plainly have something in common that allows them to share membership of the same group. What are their distinct characteristics and challenges?
Published
June 2007
Author
Work Foundation and NESTA
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