Economic Development Clusters and the Creative Economy
I’m beginning to see some great potential.
Across the country creative economy awareness is rising and it’s running smack dab into economic development with industry clusters.
Here in Oregon we have the Oregon Creative Industries (OCI) and the Oregon Business Council’s Cluster Network (OCN). OCI is directly concerned with how to create jobs in/for, and support, the creative industries of Oregon, and OCN is concerned with developing traded sector industry clusters for economic growth. OCI is working hard to define it’s role in all of this, and some of the associated creative industry associations are already doing great work.
My focus for Forward Motion Facilitation and my personal interest in these areas is represented in two ways: providing strategic planning facilitation for Creative Industry Businesses (sometimes pro-bono), and creative thinking/innovation sessions facilitation for consultants/firms working for Government Transformation and in the areas of economic development that ties into the Industry clusters.
The long term vision is to be a highly knowledgeable expert facilitator in the areas of economic development for the creative industries and a contributing creative in the world of cultural artifacts (music, sculpture, visual design, etc…).
