A Creative Block? The Future of the UK Creative Industries
1. A Creative Block?
The Future of the UK Creative Industries
A Knowledge Economy & Creative Industries report
Benjamin Reid, Alexandra Albert and Laurence Hopkins, December 2010
2. Contents
Sponsors 3
Executive Summary 4
Introduction 7
1.1 The Creative Industries in the Knowledge Economy 7
1.2 The structure of the report 8
The UK Creative Industries to ‘Staying Ahead’ 11
2.1 Defining the Creative Industries – the DCMS 13 11
2.2 Linking the Creative Industries 12
2.3 Drivers of growth in the Creative Industries 14
2.4 The strength of the UK creative industries to Staying Ahead 15
2.5 Underlying fragility of the UK creative industries to Staying Ahead 16
2.5.1 Business growth and survival 16
2.5.2 Employment growth 17
2.5.3 Exports 18
The UK Creative Industries in the recession 20
3.1 The External picture – business change, and employment 20
3.2 The Internal picture – the evidence base 23
3.2.1 Impact assessment 23
3.2.2 Employment and Skills 25
3.2.3 Inter-relationships 26
The UK Creative Industries to 2020 29
4.1 Convergence, Digitalisation, Internationalisation 29
4.1.1 Convergence 29
4.1.2 Digitalisation 30
4.1.3 Internationalisation 33
4.2 The Creative Industries as a (potential) engine of growth 36
4.3 The Creative Industries as a (potential) engine of innovation 38
Conclusions 39
5.1 For the ‘theory’ – re-visiting ‘Staying Ahead’ 39
5.1.1 The model 39
5.1.2 The drivers 40
5.1.3 The sectors 41
5.2 The implications for UK policy 41
Contact details 44