Creative statistics to support creative economy politics

tries’, a notion that several analysts and commentators have readily used to substitute for the concept of ‘cultural industries’. Gradually, promoters of an economic strategy based on the development of these creative industry sectors have come to generalize this notion, now speaking of the ‘creative economy’. Taken up by technocrats from various countries, and even by those in the United Nations (UN), this approach has enjoyed success. Recently, in April 2008, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) made public a document written by experts whose explicit objective was to measure the degree of development of the creative economy in all regions of the world