Creative Industries in Numbers
By Negin Vaghefi
February 2020 STATISTICS
THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES as defined by the UK's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) are “those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property”. Malaysia’s National Creative Industry Policy (DIKN) which draws on DCMS’s definition of creative industries identifies 14 sub-sectors, dividing them into three distinct categories: Multimedia, Cultural Arts and Cultural Heritage (Table 1). In 2017 a...
Negin Vaghefi
is a senior analyst at Penang Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics. Her research interests include agri-environmental economics, climate change, green economics, poverty and income inequality, and policy analysis.
