Creative Industries and the Local Dimension

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Creative Industries and the Local Dimension

• Dr Tom Fleming
• Program Manager, Tower Hamlets Cultural
  Industries Development Agency (CIDA)
• Freelance Creative Consultant

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Two Main Questions

• What milieus attract new creative industries?

• What kind of business strategies and networks
  are needed in the digital environment?

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Themes

• Getting a sense of place Locality identity
• The localness of the Creative Industries Sector

• The East London Perspective
• New Media Central
• Networking for success
• The importance of intermediaries
• Key questions

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Getting a sense of place locality identity

• Economics and structures of The Local
• Cultural identity and The Local
• The localness of the Creative Industries Sector
• What kinds of places? Clusters and networks

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The East London perspective New Media Central
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Networking for success the importance of
intermediaries

• The role of the intermediary the plethora of
  support initiatives
• Tower Hamlets Cultural Industries Development
  Agency (CIDA)

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Key Question

• What kind of business strategies and networks
  are needed in the digital environment?