The Future of Africa’s Creative Industries

2022 ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
Nnamdi O. Madichie ◽  
Robert Ebo Hinson
2019 ◽  
pp. 50-74
Author(s):  
Barbara Townley ◽  
Philip Roscoe ◽  
Nicola Searle

The chapter considers the construction of economic agency among creative producers in the creative industries. It argues that a form of economic agency, homo oeconomicus, is facilitated by engagement with IP/IPR. This involves understanding work as a means of securing money, as opposed to an obligation ‘to one’s art’; a specific attitude to time, in terms of a relationship to the present and also a control over the future; and action underpinned with knowledge of economic and technical issues, rather than being guided solely by the social milieu and group of one’s fellow creatives and collective cultural habits. IP/IPR introduces a temporal dimension central to economic calculation, and helps agents to distinguish tradable assets while disentangling themselves from them. Chapter 3 also picks up the ambivalences of business and creativity among ‘cultural entrepreneurs’, discussing self-employment and precarity in the creative economy.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1(8)) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Stella Kaczmarek

When we start thinking about culture, the following associations come to our mind: cultural policy, cultural sector, situation of culture, financing of culture, cultural education, etc. Culture constitutes an inseparable part of each country’s economy and politics. Important aspects of the functioning of culture in modern times comprise globalization, the appearance of cultural industry, creative industries and the so-called third sector of culture. The article discusses issues regarding key aspects of the functioning of culture in Poland, both previous and current forms of financing cultural activities as well as information on possible solutions for the future. The situation of artists and authors will also be discussed – the rules governing financing, remuneration and pursuing their own cultural-artistic activities.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Arief Budijanto ◽  
Tamaji

— Mood lamp is a lamp made from RGB (red, green, blue) led that can be programmed based on its color through remote control, so that the color of the lamp can be determined by the user according to his mood. This lamp is designed using 89C2051 microcontroller with low power technology and uses RGB leds that can be programmed into several colors via a remote control. The remote control signal in this study uses the standard NEC remote code. The results of the led lights experiment can be programmed into 7 colors, namely red, blue, cyan, yellow, magenta, white, and green. The purpose of the results of this study in the future so that it can be used as a business opportunity in the field of creative industries, because this mood lamp can be used as a garden light, home porch lights, restaurants and cafes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (47) ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Mirjana Kovačević

The paper presents the empirical study which aims to describe problems encountered by actors in the cultural and creative industries during the realization of ideas and activities in a modern digital environment. The results pointed out a discrepancy in the use of modern technology when it comes to the creation, availability and use of products of culture and creativity, and the ways they are communicated and promoted. Highlighting the problems that this sector faces, besides the knowledge of economic gain and overflows to other areas of the economy and society, should stimulate the interest of the competent institutions and decision-makers in finding more productive support programs for Serbian cultural and creative production in the future.


Author(s):  
Virginia Santamarina-Campos ◽  
Blanca de-Miguel-Molina ◽  
Marival Segarra-Oña ◽  
María de-Miguel-Molina

AKSEN ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Luh De Risa Agustin Dharma Gunung ◽  
L Maureen Nuradhib ◽  
Melania Rahadiyanti

 This article contains the product design and booth for the Luhde Risa company which is made as a business preparation for the author in the future. The business focus taken by the author is modern local wisdom. The concept of local wisdom carried by the author focuses on the traditions and wealth of Indonesia. The author designs interior products and booths with a local wisdom approach in Bali. The purpose of this design is to maintain and enhance Indonesian local wisdom in the form of interior products, create products that are able to follow trends but still maintain local wisdom, become a provider of the need for space contents that can help consumers in completing space needs, becoming a company that is able to compete globally, increasing world achievement in the field of creative industries, especially the furniture industry. This design uses exploration, observation and analysis of Indonesian resources as a reference in designing interior products. The design of the booth is based on the results of the market survey obtained through the results of personal analysis. Exploration, observation and analysis were obtained from several articles, resource persons conducted through interviews with similar competitors and market surveys through questionnaires. Using the potential of natural resources from Indonesia which has the potential to develop this business so that it is expected to be able to provide a positive response to the economic development of Indonesia and globally. 


2020 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2096281
Author(s):  
Ana Alacovska ◽  
Thilde Langevang ◽  
Robin Steedman

This paper examines the dynamics of hope in creative industries in the city of Accra in Ghana. Building on theoretical insights from geography, anthropology and sociology that have mobilized the concept of hope as an analytical category, we examine the economic actions and entrepreneurial behaviour of creative entrepreneurs working in “precarious geographies”, i.e. locations where precarity is not a deviation from the norm but a constant and longstanding feature. Drawing on in-depth interviews, we contend that in conditions of radical and pervasive precarity, hope represents a distinct form of work in which the potentialities of the moment extend the present into the future, while the future, however hazy and unimaginable, affects the economic vitality of the present. By unpacking three dominant practices of hopeful orientation to futurity enacted by creative workers in Accra, namely hustling, waiting, and spiritualizing, we demonstrate the usefulness of hope as a concept in analysing economic action and labour dynamics.


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