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16 gru 2013 · Our review highlights how the three perspectives shed light on categorical dynamics in creative industries, while building on different levels of analysis, involving different number and types of actors and yielding different insights depending on the stages of industry evolution.
The U.S. Census Bureau classifies business establishments and enterprises into industries using its North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Arts and cultural industries are those NAICS codes that represent organizations that are engaged in the production of arts and culture-related goods and services.
The traditional definition of "cultural industries" has evolved into the broader one of "Creative industries", to then reach the concept of "cultural and creative industries" (CCI), used by the European Union (EU), which considers the differences between the two categories of activities.
The Creative Industries Council Skillset Skills Group has identified as an issue that the current national accounts system needs to be better suited to the needs of the modern knowledge economy and, in particular, to develop a consensus on a definition of the Creative Industries.
The creative industries refers to a range of economic activities which are concerned with the generation or exploitation of knowledge and information.
The FCS defines ten distinct categories: (0) cultural heritage; (1) printed matter and literature; (2 & 3) music and the performing arts; (4) visual arts; (5&6) audiovisual media (5 cinema and photography; 6 radio and television); (7) socio cultural activities; (8) sports and games; (9) environment and nature.
Summary: Arts Council England welcomes this review of the classification and measurement of the creative industries and supports the movement towards a more robust and replicable methodology for classifying and measuring the creative industries.
