Temple Bar Talks: R. Kooyman

UU / HKU

Rene KOOYMANDublin30 June 2011

The cultural and creative industries ‘Cultural industries’: goods or services thatembody cultural expressions, irrespectivecommercial value: film, DVD, video, televisionand radio, video games, new media, music,

books and press, performing arts, visual arts.

‘Creative industries’ : use culture as an input , whose outputs are mainly functional: architecture, advertising, design and fashion.’

staff headcountannual turnover, orannual balance sheet

The SME definition

Size of enterprises by sector across CCIs Eurokleis 2010

Distribution of total turnover per size class Eurokleis 2010

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Staff headcount - turnover

o Micro (< 2 milj € / 10 p)

o Medium (2 – 10 m € / 50 – 250 p)

o Large enterprises (250+):

2006: Cultural Industries BRD

o 763.000 taxable employees

Fesel/Söndermann BRD 2009

74% nr of enterprises 27 % turnover

3 % enterprises 32 % turnover

< 1 % nr enterprises 40 % turnover

o 210.000 Free-lance workers

not registered

Creative industries:

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SPECIFICITIES OF CCIs Labour market• Thrives on numerous small initiatives• Non-conventional forms of employment; part-time

work, temporary contracts, self-employment , free-lancers; career high degree of uncertainty

• Multiple job-holdings; combined sources of income• Heterogeneity of human resources ; higher

professional training, vernacular backgrounds, craft industry, any other category

• No longer fits typical patterns of full-time professions

• New type of employer; the ‘entrepreneurial individual’ or ‘entrepreneurial cultural worker’

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DIFFERENCES PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS

• Creative inputs and products are abundant

• Hypercompetitive environment

• Knowledge-based and labour-intensive input

• Not ‘simply merchandise’, but express cultural uniqueness and identities

• Experience goods; production and consumption ‘on the spot’

• Product life-cycles are short

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CCIs AS KEY STRATEGIC FACTOR

• CCIs drivers of economical growth (UNCTAD)

• Drivers of innovation: driving innovative processes into realisation

• Flexibility; direct producer/client interaction; meet the clients needs

• CCIs stand at the core of cultural and industrial networks

• CCIs and Technological change/digitisation two-way process

The OECD/EUROSTAT framework for Entrepreneurship indicators 2008

Entrepreneurship Determinants Themes

• Access to debt financing• Business Angels• Access to Venture Capital • Access to other types of equity• Tax incentives• Bankruptcy Legislation

Access to finance and income generation: Cultural Business Modeling

Access to Venture Capital

• Weaknesses in business skills, training and experience of entrepreneurs

• Traditional Business Education does not fit

• Entrepreneurship Education (skills)

• Entrepreneurship Infrastructure (Public and Private)

Lack of Entrepreneurial capabilities

Risk attitude in society•Micro businesses: Artisan, Creative Partnership or Solo• Small-business: • Designer and Business Partner• Designer and Licensing Partner• Designer and Manufacturer• Partnership with a formal Investor

• SMEs and the Financial Sector

Entrepreneurial Culture

• Administrative Burdens (entry and growth)

• Safety, health, environment and product regulation

• Labour Market Regulation  

• Social and Health Security

• Income Taxes

• Business Taxes and Fiscal Incentives

Regulatory framework

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IRELAND SME PERFORMANCE REVIEW 2008

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SUPPORT• Coordinated support shared by several

Ministries: Culture, Economic Affairs, Education, Labour)

• Recognition of the specific characteristics CCIs: specific support when needed. A general approach will not suffice

• Bridging the entrepreneurial skills gap: provide training

Three specific dimensions:• Urban Area development: integrate CCIs in urban

renewal, create breeding places, networks• The Economical approach: job creation• The social-cultural approach: active and

receptive cultural participation, support festivals, exhibitions, art routes, art education

UU / HKU

Rene KOOYMANDublin30 June 2011