Valuing Culture: Measuring and Understanding Canada's Creative Economy - The Diigo Meta page

• 29 Aug 08
  

  Yule Heibel

  The Conference Board of Canada's July 2008 report on the value of culture to the Canadian economy.

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  • Valuing Culture: Measuring and Understanding Canada’s Creative Economy examines the culture sector as a cornerstone of the creative economy.
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  • • Arts and culture industries play a vital role in attracting people, business, and investment, and in distinguishing Canada as a dynamic and exciting place to live and work.
    • The Conference Board estimates that the economic footprint of Canada’s culture sector was $84.6 billion in 2007, or 7.4 per cent of Canada’s total real GDP, including direct, indirect, and induced contributions. Culture sector employment exceeded 1.1 million jobs in 2007.
    • Technology is revolutionizing business models in the creative economy, altering the way culture is created and consumed. Consumers are becoming “prosumers” who actively create and customize content.

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    • The “long tail” business model of many niche markets is altering how arts and culture industries sell their products and services.

    • The culture sector bridges geographical distances and creates greatly expanded social networks.

      
      

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  Yule Heibel on 2008-08-29
  The Conference Board gets it...

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