Last year I had the pleasure to take part in a project that investigated developments related to the Creative Economy. A presentation with some of the results has been published now.
Trend Pulse For Creative Industries
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The most obvious result has been maybe that the Creative Economy has started to unfold already. And there is no going back. Looking at the amount of studies on Creative Industries that result is certainly not a surprise anymore.
What became increasingly clear is that the professional inside the creative economy is a different animal than the professional of the age of industrialized mass-production. This has implications for education, work organization, measuring success etc. These implications are also obvious, but nevertheless have mostly not led to conscious changes of educational systems or organizational structures. Indeed, changes seem hard to implement, because they require more than just a few add-ons or adjustments to the existing economy. They require to make decisions from a different mind set.
Or do they? What became clearer to me after the study finished was that mind sets evolve as well, even if there is no intention to change, simply because we're all witnessing the paradigm shift around us. Yes, mind sets evolve too slow to avoid a certain level of friction and dissatisfaction, but nevertheless...
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