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This paper proposes that publicly funded arts and cultural organisations should aspire to, and be funded to, engage in Research and Experimental Development (R&D), particularly that which aims at innovation, that is, new social application. Not confined to novel products or processes, arts and...
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This is a pre-publication version of London’s Creative Sector: 2004 Update, which was published by the Greater London Authority (GLA) in 2002 and can be found, at the time of this report, at http://london.gov.uk/mayor/economic_unit/docs/creative_sector2004.pdf. It should be cited as Freeman,...
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This is a pre-publication version of Creativity: London’s Core Business which was published by the Greater London Authority (GLA) in 2002 and can be found at http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/economic_unit/docs/create_inds_rep02.pdf. This version omits the technical appendix and foreword in the...
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This is a pre-publication version of the working paper of the same name, published by the Greater London Authority and available at http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/business-economy/publications/working-paper-40-londons-creative-workforce-2010-update. It should be cited as “Freeman, A....
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This paper describes the Greater London Authority’s evidence base for its work on the creative and cultural industries. Its main purpose is to show that th9is evidence base is viable, robust, and useful. The second and most important purpose is to encourage others in city management to invest...
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bstract This unpublished paper was submitted to the May 22-23 conference on IPR at Birkbeck College, London. It analyses the distinct economic roles of culture, creation, and innovation in the Creative Industries by assessing the fitness for purpose of their statistical definitions. On this...
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This note lays out a roadmap to Datapedia: the goal is to share numbers with the same power and ease that the Wiki has delivered for documents. This would transform the quality and usability of economic data. The goal is a system which, by analogy with Wikipedia can establish a world resource...
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This paper seeks to transcend entrenched misunderstandings between economists and arts policymakers, leaders and funders. These misunderstandings, which have long dogged discussion on arts funding in the UK, are most evident in the long-running debate about ‘instrumental’ and ‘intrinsic’...
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This report is a pre-final version of a report published by the Greater London Authority and the London Development Agency in March 2008. It benchmarks London’s cultural offer against four other world cities: Paris,  New York, Tokyo and Shanghai and is the first comprehensive such undertaking...
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This is a pre-publication version of London’s Creative Sector: 2007 Update, published by the Greater London Authority (GLA) in 2007 and located, at the time of this report, at http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/economic_unit/docs/wp_22_creative.pdf. It should be cited as Freeman, A. (2007)....
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