Measuring the creative field

The Swedish Institute for Growth Policy Studies (in Swedish: Institutet för tillväxtpolitiska studier) put forward the difficulties in measuring and defining areas like the cultural economy and experience industry in the september number of the paper Growth Policy View (Tillväxtpolitisk Utblick). Statistical methods and units are not efficient and need to developed. If policy is to be formed within the creative field, other and better ways of measuring the economic impact of the sector is necessary, they argue.

Download the paper in Swedish: tpu-2008_6-webb.pdf and for English look at their website.