INDUSTRIES An analysis of the implications of the "creative industries" approach to arts and media policy making in the United Kingdom

By N. Garnham. 2005

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Creative industries: a new direction? (2009, background): “It is not primarily an extension of Daniel Bell’s ‘knowledge economy’ and its ‘symbolic workers’, as is often argued (Garnham 2005, Pratt 2009) – a charge more applicable to Richard Florida (2005) and John Howkins (2001).”
The cultural and creative industries: a review of the literature (2007, background): “Garnham, building on the central insights of the political economy school – of which many currently working in the creative industries field are simply ignorant – suggests also that the new concern with IP rights is an attempt to overcome one of the key restrictions on profitability in the cultural ”
Modelling the cultural industries (2008, background): “…UK government has preferred to use the term ‘creative’ industries to describe this grouping, partly to mark a shift in policy away from a focus on the arts and to sidestep possible high-culture connotations of the word ‘cultural’, and partly to widen the scope of industries included (Garnham 2005).”
Looking for work in creative industries policy (2009, background): “It is broadly acknowledged that UK and other governments are now seeking more intensively to exploit cultural commodities, intellectual property and the panoply of goods and services underpinning the putatively emergent ‘creative’ or ‘knowledge economy’ (Garnham 2005, Hesmondhalgh 2007).”