Creative industries & cultural science: A definitional odyssey

This paper argues that the definition of cultural science depends on the definition of creative industries. The problem, however, is that unlike the definition of evolutionary economics, complexity science and new cultural studies, which are also elements of cultural science, the creative industries...

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Main Author: Potts Jason
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2008-01-01
Series:Cultural Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.5
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