Making in China: Is maker culture changing China’s creative landscape?

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Wen
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Manufacturing ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Maker Movement ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
Maker Culture ◽  
Made In China ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Made In

Since the 1990s, the emphasis on the economic significance of culture and creativity by policy makers, urban planners and researchers has contributed to the global development of (as well as debate on) the creative economy. This movement has particularly taken off in China alongside the transition from the ‘Made in China’ campaign to the ‘Created in China’ campaign. In recent years, the focus of creative industries development in China has shifted from the convergence of culture and technology, and now also includes the convergence of culture, creativity and design with related industries, covering almost all of the sectors of the national economy. Meanwhile, a movement of ‘mass entrepreneurship and innovation’ is being promoted by redefining the international maker culture. In this context, the article investigates the kinship between the maker movement and the creative economy from the perspectives of communities, spaces, activities, policies and innovation, and whether these conjure up a transition from ‘Created in China’ to ‘Intelligent Manufacturing in China’. And for the creative economy, this raises the question: is it turning to a technological future?

Platform Capitalism ‘Made in China’? Intelligent Manufacturing, Taobao Villages and the Restructuring of Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boy Lüthje
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Manufacturing ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Social Shaping Of Technology ◽  
Social Shaping ◽  
Made In China ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Conditions Of Employment ◽  
Made In

The article examines the development of advanced digital manufacturing (as outlined in the ‘Made-in-China 2025’ government plan) from the perspective of the changing socio-technical paradigms of production. The analysis focuses on the transformations of value chains and work, based on theories of social shaping of technology, regulation theory and regimes of production. Analytically, the author proposes to distinguish between ‘production-driven’ and ‘distribution-driven’ pathways of manufacturing digitalisation. The transformation of semi-rural industrial areas (‘Taobao villages’, named after China’s largest e-commerce platform Taobao) into mass production clusters for e-commerce is depicted as a paradigmatic model of distribution-driven transformation and as a characteristic Chinese strategy in this field. The article examines the impact on industry supply chains and work, leading to ever-more precarious conditions of employment. Policy recommendations focus on local strategies to stabilise supply chain structures and working conditions, as an alternative to the present top-down approaches to manufacturing modernisation in China.

Hong Kong creative workers in mainland China: The aspirational, the precarious, and the ethical

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiu Fai Chow
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The People ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Creative Workers ◽  
Made In China ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

China took up the discourses and agenda of creative industries increasingly in the first post-millennium decade. Amidst the attempt to turn from ‘made in China’ to ‘created in China’, would the translation of the creativity discourse usher in a better society in China? This article serves as one of the probing steps to ascertain what creativity enables and disables in China. I do so in an inquiry that departs from existing scholarship on two aspects. First, it follows a regional, cross-border labour flow. Second, it focuses on the people in the frontline of creative work. My study draws on the experiences of 12 Hong Kong creative workers who moved to Shanghai and Beijing. Their translocal and transcultural encounters allowed me to trace and foreground the particularities of creative practices in China. Like many fellow creative workers, my informants moved north to pursue better career opportunities. But they also wanted to do something more. Some of them managed to do so. At the same time, their stories were punctuated with disappointments, frustrations and continuous adjustments, categorized into what I call the precarious and the ethical. The findings of this inquiry pose questions on the hypothesis, the hype and the hope of creativity in China.

‘Made in China 2025’: Intelligent Manufacturing and Work1

2017 ◽  
pp. 42-61
Author(s):  
Kendra Briken ◽  
Shiona Chillas ◽  
Martin Krzywdzinski ◽  
Abigail Marks ◽  
Florian Butollo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Manufacturing ◽  
Made In China ◽  
Made In

scholarly journals Analysis for the Construction of Software Technology Professional Group Based on Intelligent Manufacturing Led by Double High-levels Plan

CONVERTER ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 713-718
Author(s):  
Yumei Li
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Intelligent Manufacturing ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
Software Technology ◽  
Made In China ◽  
Made In

With the strategies of Internet plus, made in China 2025, AI 2.0 raised andnew information technologies of artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, network securitydeveloped and applicated, Intelligent manufacturing will become the main direction of made in China 2025,information technology, especially the software technology is urged to integrate deeply with all walks of life, promoting the transformation and upgrade of relevant industries(such as industrial industry). Thus, it will further promote the development of new economy, which puts forward higher requirements for the characteristic construction and talent training of software engineering. This paper will explore the construction that “Double High-levels Plan” leads vocational education technical skills innovation platform and the construction that emerging education technology and the way of thinking, such as artificial intelligence, big data intelligent embedsin subject courses to form a professional group of software technique in vocational education led by "Double High-levels Plan". Disciplines and lessons boundaries should be broke through in the process of professional education teaching and innovation teaching means and methodsshould be iterated with the cooperation between course teaching and industrial development to create aprofessional group of software technology in line with the era development, and promote the reform of vocational education personnel training.

scholarly journals The university as intermediary for the creative economy: Pedagogues, policy-makers and creative workers in the curriculum

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 120-139
Author(s):  
Dave Harte ◽  
Paul Long ◽  
Annette Naudin
Keyword(s):  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
University Policy ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Creative Workers ◽  
Cultural Sector ◽  
The University

This article examines the nature and role of courses designed to train creative workers, policy-makers and related actors, in the skills necessary for cultural management, enterprise or intermediation and their relationship in apprehending the sector. The article takes a case study approach, engaging with university policy, student research, reflections from graduates and staff who have participated in a suite of integrated MA awards at a UK university. We find that the programme created environments in which practitioners and intermediaries were positioned in reflexive relation to their experiences and roles. We outline the insights and understandings that have emerged as students explored their own orbits in relation to both critical and instrumental research on the cultural sector, and in relation to perceptions of the transformations in sector and how it is conceived. The case study sets out an agenda for exploring the relationship of research, pedagogy and practice after the creative industries.

scholarly journals Effective Governance to Develop Creative Quarters: Three Case Studies from Germany

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Lauderbach
Keyword(s):  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Creative People ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Ruhr Area ◽  
Effective Governance ◽  
Framework Conditions ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

Abstract As the positive economic and social impacts of the creative economy on regions are evident, many regions and local policy makers aim to attract creative industries and creative people by offering adequate spaces and framework conditions (Musterd & Murie 2010). Beside other efforts, creative quarters are initiated artificially by top-down governance. Based on the assumption that creatives (bohemians, core of the creative class) need a certain amount of autonomy and do not want to be instrumentalised, initiating creative quarters top-down seems to be difficult. This paper analyses different ways of governance to develop creative quarters in the range of top-down, bottom-up and co-governance. By reference to three quarters (located in the Ruhr area, Germany) which have been developed by different ways of governance, the research derives ideal governance structures and processes to develop creative quarters considering practical opportunities and limitations.

Doctors ’Made in China’ – Locally Trained, Globally Excellent

Praxis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 109 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ewelina Biskup ◽  
Feng Li ◽  
Shixian Dong ◽  
Yan Wo
Keyword(s):  
Made In China ◽  
Made In

Creative economy: Towards cultural heritage capitalization

2017 ◽  
pp. 100-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Abankina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation

The paper analyzes trends in the development of the creative economy in Russia and estimates the export potential of the Russian creative industries. The author demonstrates that modern concepts of cultural heritage preservation focus on increasing the efficiency of its use and that building creative potential and systematic support of the creative industries are becoming a key task of the strategic development of regions and municipalities in the post-industrial era.

Auto Markets in the World and Strategy of Japan’s Companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1003-1008
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Matsuoka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Auto Industry ◽  
Domestic Market ◽  
Automatic Driving ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Made In

In the world auto market, top three companies are VW(Volkswagen), Runault-Nissan-Mistubishi, and Toyota. About some selected countries and areas, China, England, Italy, Australia, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Sweden, USA, Brazil, UAE, Japan, Vietnam and Thailand are more competitive. However, the situation is different. Seeing monopolistic market countries and areas, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, France, India, and Pakistan, in particular, the influence of Japan to Taiwan, India, and Pakistan is very big. But in Korea and France, their own companies’ brands occupy the market. In Japan domestic market, the overall situation is competitive. Almost all vehicles made in Japan are Japanese brand. From now on, we have to note the development of electric vehicle (EV) and other new technologies such as automatic driving and connected car. That is because they will give a great impact on the auto industry and market of Japan. Now Japan’s auto industry is going to be consolidated into three groups, Honda, Toyota group, and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi group for seeking the scale merit of economy. Therefore, I will pay attention to the worldwide development of EV and other new technologies and the reorganization of auto companies groups.

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