How important are “creative” jobs to a state’s economy and to rural communities?
About two years ago the Mississippi Arts Commission entered into a unique partnership with the Mississippi Development Authority to find out. Realizing they had an overlapping interest in how arts, culture, and design benefit the state’s economy and its people, they ordered a study to examine Mississippi’s creative industries.
The notion was to look at these businesses not just as a cultural and social good but on economic terms. The state examined the creative economy as a source of jobs and wealth, as a competitive advantage for products and services, a magnet for talent and tourists, as a stimulus for innovation in science and technology, and in terms of its contributions to academic performance.
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