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The economic importance of the creative industries 
What does the term 'creative industries' mean? How significant is the creative sector? What opportunities does the sector present?
In the past, consensus on defintions has not been easy to achieve. As a result the estimates of the size and importance of the creative sector vary.
This is straight from NESTA's website.  [...]

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The worst-case scenario is unacceptable. Instead Mirador aims to work with its present and future clients and partners to address the following:

Innovation and creativity. The markets for culture are changing  and the challenge in the next ten years is to resist a culture of providing ‘more of the same’.

New entrepreneurialism.  Local authorities and their partners [...]

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The worst case scenarion presents major losses to the local cultural economies if cultural planning was to fail and local provision is not enhanced to meet the demands of new or expanding markets.  A worst-case scenario prevails where:

arts and cultural producers, community groups, local authorities, arts funders and business sponsors fail to analyse and scrutinise their [...]

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Mirador is interested in developing a series of productions to implement its own programmes for addressing cultural diversity in London. The main components of our projected programme for delivery are:
 ·         Social inclusion
·         Capacity building through partnerships
·         Modernisation of delivery mechanisms to undertake large scale work
·         Creating effective links with learning and skills development
·         Investing in [...]

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There are several practical approaches and ‘theories’ relating to the promotion of cultural diversity. The notion of ‘cultural relativism’ (Note 1) suggests that different people have their own frameworks for looking at the world.  They try to explain what they see by resorting to a series of production values and judgements which can be very [...]

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Cultural planners and providers, arts organisations, community groups and individuals working in this exciting area of  London’s economy have the creative capacity to deliver a wide range of marketable outputs and services, all of which can add value. However they must engage with delivery organisations and invest in audience development more than ever before in [...]

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The shock of winning the Olympics bid is greater thanthe shock we would have had of losing it. Mirador Culture Management.  Mirador was launched in December 2005 as a new force in supporting culturally diverse planning and development programmes for celebrating the Olympics. It brings together well-known themes and innovative new projects to enhance the quality [...]

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