Background information: Creative industries represent a dynamic cluster of emerging economic activities. These industries are a source of economic value, providing new employment and export opportunities and advancing the technological frontier. Unlike other such clusters, they are intimately involved with the cultural processes of developing and deepening symbolic and artistic expression and of nurturing such complementary values as experimentation, discovery and diversity. While the nature of these industries precludes "ideal-type" policy models,there are already a variety of experiences of success and failure, which warrants an analysis of best practices.

Purpose: The workshop will analyse best practices and assess how cultural entrepreneurship can help frame the policy approach to promoting sustainable creative industries. It will discuss the economic and social role of the cultural entrepreneur and review and assess possible partnerships between the private, public and non-profit sectors, which allow the development of creative industries.

The growing importance of creative industries will be discussed from a development perspective and key policy implications will be elicited, based on successful case studies. The role of the international development community will be examined and recommendations will be made for national, regional and international actions with a view to enhancing the economic and social contribution of this industry to the development process.Recommendations from the workshop will be presented to the High-Level Panel on Creative Industries at UNCTAD XI

Expected outcome The workshop aims to increase awareness of the economic importance of the sector, explore ways of promoting investment in creative industries and strengthening the development of civil societies, and provide inter-country learning experiences and a forum for exchange of experiences and knowledge. It proposes to approach the theme of creative industries in a novel way by bringing together themes that are generally treated separately: culture, entrepreneurship and public policy.

The workshop aims to pave the way for the creation of an International Network for Creative Industries, a mechanism for the continuous exchange of information on policy tools and systems of benchmarking of good practices in the promotion of cultural entrepreneurship in the creative industries.

The conclusions of the seminar will be inputs into the deliberations at UNCTAD XI on 13 June.

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