The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas (Penguin Business)

by JohnHowkins (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $5.89

  What is creativity? How does it work? How do we manage it and how do we profit from it? In 1996, US copyrights were worth $60.18 billion of export sales, surpassing for the first time every other export sector, including automobiles, agriculture and aircraft. Meanwhile the British music business is already larger than its steel industry. Any economy hoping to prosper in a global entertainment and design culture must seize the opportunities presented by creativity quickly. Howkins here explores how this can be done in the real world.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.29

  Britain makes more money from music than from its car industry. In the United States the core copyright industries achieved foreign sales and exports of $60.18 billion - a figure which surpasses, for the first time, every other export sector, including automobiles, agriculture and aircraft. Howkins sets out to explore how we can harness creativity and the industry it sustains to our common interests. This book is not about information and the information society. It is about more basic matters, what we humans want and what we are good at.