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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Nation, State and Creative Economy
Authors : Philip Schlesinger, Melanie Selfe, Ealasaid Munro
Published in: Curators of Cultural Enterprise: A Critical Analysis of a Creative Business Intermediary
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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This chapter shows how the ‘creative economy’ became a central plank of UK cultural policy, from the New Labour government (1997–2010) to the Con-Lib Dem coalition government (2010–2015). Both the globalisation of this discourse and its localisation in Scotland are described. The centrality of the creative economy for Scottish cultural policy under both the Lab-Lib coalitions (1999–2007) and the Scottish National Party (2007 to date) is analysed, with particular attention paid to the common political ground regarding the present institutional landscape. Cultural Enterprise Office is situated in the context of a discussion of current analyses of cultural intermediaries and of cultural entrepreneurship.