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Culture and creative industries in Germany 2009
In recent years, the discussion on culture and creative industries has attained a high level of public attention in Germany. Culture and creative industries have grown to be more than just an image factor; they are now perceived as an economic branch of its own standing, a permanently established growth industry.
Culture and creative industries are part of a knowledge and contentoriented society and play a ground-breaking role in Germany's way towards a knowledge-based economy. Future-oriented models of work and business, e.g. hybrid work forms, have prevailed in the culture and creative industries from the start. Furthermore, it is an exceedingly innovative sector, and an important source of genuinely innovative ideas. It mainly produces prototypes, individual works, small scale series and immaterial products. Production and development work is very often project-specific. Almost all companies in the culture and creative industries use modern technologies, especially information and communication technologies. They are not just passive users of technology, but keep providing important impulses for the development of new technological variants for technology producers and developers. Economic policy geared towards strengthening innovation and economic development in Germany therefore has to include the development of the culture and creative industries as a cross-sectoral branch.
The full report is available in German (http://www.kulturwirtschaft.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/2-German_CCI_EN_draftversion_090601.pdf). The Summary version is available in English at the link below.
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