Bibliography
Statewide, Local & Regional
Arts & Economic Prosperity III
Regional Arts & Culture Council | Americans for the Arts
http://www.racc.org/resources/research/aep3.php
Creative Services Strategy
Portland Development Commission | ECO Northwest
http://www.pdc.us/programs/ed/strategy/PDFs/creative_services-appendix.pdf
Creative Vitality Index
Oregon Arts Commission
The Creative Vitality Index measures for-profit and nonprofitarts-related activities in a city, county, state or other geographic area as it compares to the national index, and creates a benchmark for future measurement.
http://www.oregonartscommission.org
Hillsboro 2020
http://www.hillsboro2020.org/
Oregon Business Plan: Innovation
The Oregon Business Plan envisions the growth and success of leading-edge, traded sector industries – clusters of allied businesses that ring up sales outside Oregon and create well paying jobs that buoy local communities.
http://www.oregonbusinessplan.org/innovation.html
Regional Business Plan
The Regional Business Plan brings together businesses from throughout the four-county Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region to build, lead, and carry out a common plan for long-term economic prosperity and global competitiveness.
http://www.regionalbusinessplan.com/
VisionPDX
VisionPDX is a City-supported, community-led initiative to create a vision for Portland for the next 20 years and beyond.
http://visionpdx.com/
The Young and The Restless: How Portland Competes for Talent
Portland Development Commission | Joseph Cortright
http://www.pdc.us/pdf/bus_serv/pubs/young_and_restless.pdf
National & International
Artists In The Workforce
National Endowment for the Arts
Artists in the Workforce: 1990–2005, is the first nationwide look at artists’ demographic and employment patterns in the 21st century. Artists in the Workforce analyzes working artist trends, gathering new statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide a comprehensive overview of this workforce segment, its maturation over the past 30 years, along with detailed information on specific artist occupations.
http://www.arts.gov/news/news08/ArtistsinWorkforce.html
Arts and Culture in the Metropolis: Strategies for Sustainability
RAND Corporation
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG477.pdf
Business Innovation Insider
BusinessInnovationInsider.com showcases interesting interviews, case studies and commentary on the theme of business innovation. Their focus is on those factors that impact innovation – competition, customer experience, intellectual property, and design.
http://www.businessinnovationinsider.com/
City Vitals
CEOs for Cities | Joseph Cortright
City Vitals lays out the rationale for the things cities must be really good at doing today and a new set of metrics – 20 in all – to measure their progress
http://www.ceosforcities.org/newsroom/news/files/CityVitals_%28visual%29_final.pdf
Creative Capacity+
Arts Victoria
The arts policy adopted by Victoria, Australia.
http://www.arts.vic.gov.au
The Creative Spaces Project
Creative London | London Redevelopment Agency
The Creative Spaces Project is a three-year joint initiative between London and Toronto to (i). identify international best practice in establishing creative spaces and stimulating the creative industries; (ii). improve the delivery of creative industries’ strategies; and (iii). maximise the role of the sector in the competitiveness of both cities.
http://www.creativelondon.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.009004005
Crossover: How Artists Build Careers across Commercial, Nonprofit and Community Work
Ann Markusen | Sam Gilmore | Amanda Johnson | Titus Levi | Andrea Martinez
Released November 2006, this study finds that many artists’ work spans two or more sectors, that artists would increase such crossover if money were not an issue, and that each sector provides special artistic development opportunities.
http://www.hhh.umn.edu/img/assets/6158/crossover.pdf
Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts
RAND Corporation
Critical of what they view as an overemphasis on instrumental benefits, the authors call for a greater recognition of the intrinsic benefits of the arts experience. In particular, they underscore the importance of sustained involvement in the arts to the achievement of both instrumental and intrinsic benefits.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG218/
The Rise of the Creative Class
Richard Florida | Published by Basic Books, 2002
A Whole New Mind
Daniel H. Pink
The era of “left brain” dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which “right brain” qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. That’s the argument at the center of this provocative and original book, which uses the two sides of our brains as a metaphor for understanding the contours of our times.
http://www.danpink.com/