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Katelijn Verstraete, Director Arts and Creative Industries
East Asia British Council
6th December 2017
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Creative Economy
Creative Economy
Creative Economy- Global
Creative Economy Asia
Singapore
In Singapore, the design sector contributed S$2.13 billion to the nation's GDP in 2013 and employed 30,000 people. ... Singapore is also a Unesco“Creative City of Design” and the ninth most creative country in the world according to Martin Prosperity Institute's Global Creativity Index.May 25, 2016
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“ The notion of the creative industries needs to be released from its limited definition… (it) has already extended to the much bigger field of social innovation which impacts on almost every area of daily life, from mobility to food networks, from health to elderly care, from education to social cohesion.” - Ezio Manzini, Chair Professior of Design for Social Innovation at UAL