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So far, the clustering concept has been narrowly applied to industrial and business development alone. However, the cultural industries are both commercially profitable and create an unusually wide range of community benefits. Successful creative clusters tend to be places where business is transacted and profits are made, where works of art are created and experienced, where people explore and learn, and which are dynamic social hubs at the centre of their communities.
Despite this, the traditional separations between for- and non-profit activity, and between community and business have not gone away. For many the terms culture and industry remain incompatible, and in practice economic regeneration is still addressed in essentially distinct ways from education, artistic and social development.
The Creative Clusters Conference will explore what happens in practice when traditionally separate regeneration activities are pursued together. Does a more holistic approach actually create new synergies, or is it in fact just unfocused and unspecialised, leading to second-class outcomes all round?
See also:
Creative Industries Old Economy or New?
Regions and the role of the capital
What are creative clusters?
What is creative entrepreneurship?
Globalisation: opportunity or threat?
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