frambosenshmak
New Member
yea it's a bit mad really but there is a large amount of work being done by organisations like the European Commission, OECD, NESTA etc trying to better understand how you encourage/measure creativity. Their agenda is the development of the "creative industries" but there is lots of interesting research and understanding being developed.
It just happens that this year is the European year of Creativity and Innovation - http://create2009.europa.eu/ - they picked a bad time what with the recession and all....
ha ha EC, OECD, NESTA - taking the fun out of creativity since nineteen-dickety-doo (an eu rep would have succumbed to giving an actual date as opposed to makey up speak). I bet they've tried to define "fun" and "free time".
I dont think recession is a bad time to promote creativity and innovation as not only does having limitations produce some really exceptional ideas but the majority of creative and innovative people have never experienced the monetary stinking rich rollercoaster to doom we've seen recently. they tend to potter along at a constant just below the dangling carrot.
the EU made a graph of it and it looks a little something like this (red being those in creative/innovative), black representing every other consumerist whore who went loola on the money-go-round):