Creative Industries : from Revolution of Everyday Life to the Working Fantasy

The article presents history of origin of Creative industries in Great Britain and development of ideas of Creative industries in Lithuania. The Lithuanian case of Creative industries is more a process of mimesis of popular management forms of culture. After the restoration of independence of Lithuania culture stayed in the State sector and only small part of theatres, art galleries, museums and folk groups became private. On the other hand, the development of the creative sector - studies of architecture, design, advertising - were not interpreted as culture but as private entrepreneurship. Not enough attention was paid to the interrelation between non commercial art and professional or industrial forms of art. In this situation the development of creative industries in Lithuania is quite problematic because it presupposes a radical change in the subsidy policy and participation of some spheres of culture in the competitive processes of the free market. Cultural policy and culture of economics in Lithuania are quite weak. There is hardy any research carried out in this field. On the other hand, commercial TV channels growth very fast and leisure industry becomes more and more influential every year. All these political, economical, public and media processes influence the necessity of development of Creative industries. History of the development of Creative industries in Great Britain, especially in Newcastle, in the period of 1993-2005 is considered in the article. The problems of identification and analyses of Creative industries are discussed. For the purposes of analysis of creative industries, the methods of SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) and SOC (Standard Occupation Classification) analysis were used in the article. The next method for the analysis or creative industries was cluster analysis. Actually, clusters are the?? form of organization, interpenetration of local economy and method of analysis at the same time. [...]Šiaulių universiteta