The Creative Economy and Why It’s News The dawn of the new millennium saw unprecedented media focus on the knowledge economy. During the information economy of the 1990s intellectual property had become more highly valued than industrial capacity and the dot-com boom was at its zenith. Blue jean clad entrepreneurs had pushed traditional Fortune 500 CEOs off the front page and market capitalisation rates for companies in the new economy reached breathtaking heights.
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Beijing Business Today, December 2006
At 2006 Cultural & Creative Industry Development International Forum yesterday, Ms Helene George, Director of Creative Economy Pty Ltd., pointed out that creativity was one of most important things in business operation.
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Creativity might be the New Black but where can we buy it?

We live in an era where an ever-accelerating pace of technological innovation and forces of globalisation are producing a business environment that demands higher levels of competitiveness. Handy (1996) argues that we have moved from an era where prices were set at a price the market would bear to an era, in which prices are set at a level that the competition will permit us to charge.
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Sustainability of Performing Arts Companies
The artistic developments and programs of Australia’s performing arts companies are integral to the fabric of cultural life for all Australians. Yet in a country as vast and isolated as Australia, performing arts companies face significant logistical and economic challenges both in reaching our sparse population and overcoming the tyranny of distance to perform on the world stage.
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