Creative industries in the Piedmont Triad

A new report from the Piedmont Triad, projects that the region could generate 29,000 jobs from businesses and the creative industries. About 10 years ago, the Blair government in the UK began to focus on creative industries as a cluster. About five years later, foundations in New England began exploring the strategy.  Still, regions in Europe are farther ahead than the US in developing strategies to promote business clusters in the creative industries.

Now, increasingly, regions around the country are looking at the creative industries as a potential job generator. The definitions of these businesses are understandably vague, but in the case of the Piedmont Triad, they include "such companies and occupations as architecture, crafts, graphic and industrial design, film, performing arts and writing, and publishing." 

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