Defining Creative Industries

Kazuko Goto ()
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Kazuko Goto: Setsunan University

Chapter Chapter 2 in Tax Incentives for the Creative Industries, 2017, pp 11-20 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores various categorizations and definitions of creative industries and develops a definition for the purposes of this book: to discuss tax incentives governments have implemented for the creative industries and explore their rationale and effects. This definition characterizes creative industries by three features. First, creative industries contain cultural and economic aspects relating to cultural policy goals such as cultural diversity and accessAccess to culture, as well as economic policyEconomic policy goals. Second, creative industries are a combination of artArt , in the narrow sense, and commerceCommerce : the combination of a specific form of creativity, cultural content creationContent creation , and its delivery. Third, creative industries are defined to include both nonprofitNonprofit and for-profitFor-profit organizations.

Keywords: Creativity; Creative industry; Cultural industry; Copyright industry; Cultural policy; Cultural diversity; Access; Economic policy; Nonprofit organizations; For-profit organizations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-832-8_2

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