Where Next for Cultural Business Support?

This chapter concludes the hook. It argues that support for the creative economy now operates within a largely unchallenged set of assumptions. However, given that policy makers evidently think that bodies such as CEO are important for pursuing national goals, loo little attention has been paid to their precarious conditions of existence. Our study has shown that, irrespective of contemporary political change, Scottish creative economy policy has remained highly dependent on UK initiatives and ideas. Moreover, the cross border transfer of people and practices has also been important in establishing commonalities of approach. These, though, should not obscure the continuing importance, specificity and impact of place for the functioning of cultural business support, and not least the role of the local funding regime in shaping its periodically changing mission.