Engineers do not see themselves as part of the creative industry. Of course, science and engineering require enormous amounts of imagination, they just require a lot more than that.
I would argue that most jobs in the creative industry require much more than creativity. Imagination without the knowledge of how to make something a reality is useless.
I think it depends on how broad your definition is. And also, yes, does the bridge stand up, but also is it ugly? Certainly in architecture it is assumed it will stand up, the commentary however is all about the artistic merit.
On the surface of it, no... but let me ask you. Have you watched Mad Men? Let's take advertising and compare it with... design, or film, or music. Well if adverts, marketing want to get you to buy a product what do you think the necessary components of that are? Designers, videographers... etc.
Or architecture... well yes it's about functionality sure, but it's also about design, what's palatable for an audience, thinking about how best to use the allocated space, and for what needs?
I don't think the umbrella 'creative industries' is to suggest they're all the exact same but rather, that they all have essential features that mean they should be placed under said umbrella.
This is why I’ve started MusicFlow with my partners. The figure is probably larger than that but the existing data collected severely underestimates the value of the grassroots and indie music scenes.
If they're using SIC code classification, then presumably buying software licenses, contracting in specialist staff & consultants will all add to that sector even if it's for the automotive or aerospace industry
Was filming a Tory ex-minister a few years ago. Shared a long drive up to his constituency where he was haranguing me about the BBC and its poor value to the taxpayer. I had to explain to him about Project Kangaroo about which he had absolutely no idea.
Project Kangaroo was a proposed joint commercial venture between BBC World, C4 and ITV for a VOD streaming site. Essentially Netflix before there was a Netflix. It was rejected by the Competition Commission in 2009. What might have been....
Ofcom still heavily restricts how much of the BBC's back catalogue can go on iPlayer, to stop people cancelling their Netflix subscriptions and just watching old Plays For Today.
This is a nice sentiment, but I'm not quite sure how the author got his numbers. If I add up the market capitalisation of only the 10 biggest pharmas, I already get to $3 trillion. And that's without all the other sectors named (for example, just the biggest oil co. has market cap of 1.8 trillion).
Ah OK. But again: AstraZeneca, ostensibly a british company, has a market cap of over $203 billion. By itself. BP is $78 billion. Valuation of industries can be done in a myriad ways.
Can't see the paywalled article, but I suspect the numbers were generated in a way to support the article's point.
They do. But they don’t generally sell it as a separate product so it will be within the value of the vehicles. Those trade stats will be picking up dedicated software service revenues.
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We don't appreciate them enough.
It's almost as if the people telling the economic stories have an agenda.
Heaven forbid.
OnlyFans pays more UK corporation tax than Amazon
ITV alone is worth more than any one of Abrdn (asset management), Qinetiq (defence/arms), Direct Line (insurance)
.. no part of Britain can be allowed to thrive ..,
Can't see the paywalled article, but I suspect the numbers were generated in a way to support the article's point.