Industries, économie créatives et technologies d’information et de communication

Abstract

This article questions the complex relationship between the creative industries and the creative economy, on one hand, and ICTs, on the other. We ask how the debates and challenges that these concepts raise are connected, complementary or rival? In short, what novelties - or continuities - support the themes of the creative industries and economy? In the first place, although these themes appeared in the 1990s in the United Kingdom in continuity with the stakes raised by ICT, their emphasis on the promotion of intellectual property rights plays a central role in the economy of the old industrial nations. Secondly, an analysis of social discourse on the creative industries and economy shows that they promote a specific analysis on issues involving creativity in contemporary societies and economies. Thirdly, the notion of creative industries questions, in a original way, the processes of industrialization within the cultural industries.

Keywords

• communication industries
• creative industries
• creative economy
• cultural industries
• information and communication technology