Starting from a buzz in the UK, the economy or creative industry is now being adopted by developing countries.
Creative industries are born of the younger generation. Initially led by Tony Blair in 1990. At that time he was a candidate for prime minister of Britain. Era of the 1990s, productivity of cities in the UK has decreased due to the shift of the centers of industry and manufacturing to developing countries.
Developing countries become the alternative because they offer cheaper raw materials, production cost and services. Responding to the condition, Tony Blair and New Labour Party established the National Endowment for Science and the Art (Nesta), which was aimed to fund the development of the talents of young people in the UK.
After winning the 1997 general election, Blair became British prime minister to form the Creative Industries Task Force. The goal is to raise public awareness about the contribution of creative industries to the UK economy. The agency is under the Department of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS). In 1998, DCMS published the results of the UK's creative industries mapping the first time.
Creative industries are defined as the industry comes from the utilization of creativity, skill and talented individual. Utilization to create prosperity and jobs to produce and exploit the creative and inventive individual.
There are 14 sub-sectors of creative industries, namely advertising; architecture; art market; craft; design; fashion; video, film and photography; interactive games; music, the performing arts; publishing and printing; computer services and software; television and radio; and research and development.
With the appointment of the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Industry, and Ministry of Tourism, to oversee the creative economy, the industry is expecting a lot. First, about the constraints of piracy works. The low purchasing power of people makes piracy of creative works continue more and more. As a result, creative ideas are often reduced which in turn causes degradation of creativity.
Secondly, it is about the issue of financing constraints. Being not admitted by the bank, creative economic activity is not supported by bank. The lack of capital cut of creativity because they only work by order only, rather than the idea itself.
Thirdly, it is about the increasing of human resource capacity. Education in the field of creative industries is still lacking. In fact, the contribution of creative industries in the national economy continues to rise. The development certainly needs creative, innovative, and reliable workers. Creative workers will not possibly be created without education in the field of creative industries.
