Creative industries & cultural science: A definitional odyssey

This paper argues that the definition of cultural science depends on the definition of creative industries. The problem, however, is that unlike the definition of evolutionary economics, complexity science and new cultural studies, which are also elements of cultural science, the creative industries...

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Main Author: Jason Potts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2008-01-01
Series:Cultural Science
Online Access:https://culturalscience.org/articles/5
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spelling doaj-7233e54febc447c09d680ed8b5a7335d2020-11-25T01:01:28ZengUbiquity PressCultural Science1836-04162008-01-011110.5334/csci.55Creative industries & cultural science: A definitional odysseyJason Potts0Anthropology Department, Durham University, UKThis paper argues that the definition of cultural science depends on the definition of creative industries. The problem, however, is that unlike the definition of evolutionary economics, complexity science and new cultural studies, which are also elements of cultural science, the creative industries suffer multiple non-commensurable definitions. These are reviewed and analytic implications for the definition of cultural science are examined.https://culturalscience.org/articles/5
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description This paper argues that the definition of cultural science depends on the definition of creative industries. The problem, however, is that unlike the definition of evolutionary economics, complexity science and new cultural studies, which are also elements of cultural science, the creative industries suffer multiple non-commensurable definitions. These are reviewed and analytic implications for the definition of cultural science are examined.
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