What is the Creative Industry?
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has used the concept “creative industries” and made a classification that distinguishes activities with a high artistic content from other economic activities that generate symbolic value and are based on intellectual property. According to this, the classification headings of UNCTAD are comprised of ‘heritage’ (cultural sites, traditional cultural presentations), ‘Arts’ (Performing Arts, Visual Arts), ‘Media’ (audio-visual products, publishing, and printed publications) with ‘functional products’ (Creative Services, Design, New Media.)
In the publication of the Cultural Economy Compendium Istanbul 2010, which was carried out by Assoc. Dr. Asu Aksoy, one of the project coordinators of 6 ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY YEKON (Creative Economy Studies Workshop,) along with Prof. Dr Zeynep Enlil, the concept of “cultural economy” was used to define the field, and based on UNCTAD's work, heritage (archaeological sites, museums, libraries, archives, and crafts), arts (visual arts, performing arts), cultural industries (the music industry, the film industry, publishing and printed media, radio and TV), and creative services (software and New Media, Architecture, advertising, design) subheadings have been included in the scope of cultural economics.
Report of the YEKON (Creative Economy Workshop)
