Related Links

Websites

• The Culture.Info portal offers nearly 40 different subportals focusing on specific themes, locations or cultural areas.
• The Observatory of Cultural Industry Transformations (OMIC) aims at publishing the works of international researchers in the field of cultural and media Industries.  

Studies and Reports

• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) "Creative Industries and Micro & Small Scale Enterprise Development : A Contribution to Poverty Alleviation" (2007). Introduces the concept of creative industries, its principal characteristics, its socio-economic significance, essential inputs and the integrated character of policies required to support the sustainable development of these industries 
  
• United Kingdom Department of Culture, Media and Sport "Creative Industries Economic Estimates Statistical Bulletin", September 2006  
• The French Ministry for Economy, Finance and Industry issued in December 2006 a Report on the Intangible Economy entitled "L'économie de l’immatériel -- La croissance de demain" [PDF]
• European Commission Study on the Economy of Culture, November 2006. Maps out the importance and competitiveness of Europe’s culture and creative sectors. See press releases in French [PDF] and English [PDF] on www.keanet.eu site
• Spanish Ministry of Culture Report on the Habits and Cultural Practices Survey in Spain 2006-2007

Statistics

• UNESCO "Statistics on Cultural Industries: Framework for the Elaboration of National Data Capacity Building Projects"
• Main Cultural Statistics from the Spanish Ministry of Culture (in Spanish)