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Geoff Mulgan and Ken Worpole : Saturday night or Sunday morning? : from arts to industry : new forms of cultural policy
No full textReview essay of: Saturday night or Sunday morning? From Arts to Industry: New Forms of Cultural Policy, by Geoff Mulgan and Ken Worpole, London, Comedia, 1986
Welfare Reform: Learning from American Mistakes? Report of a seminar organised by LSE Housing and CASE
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BBC Radio Four’s Analysis and the Third Way
No full textBBC Radio Four’s current affairs programme, Analysis provided a platform for Third Way ideas in 1994 and 95. Key Third Way thinkers both contributed to and presented the programme which repeated many of the core Third Way ideas. This willingness to intervene in a key ideological shift mirrored the programme’s enthusiastic treatment of neo-liberalism in the mid 1970s. Editions of the programme presented by the influential Thatcherite, John Vaisey provided an important space for the representation of neo-liberal ideas as they were beginning to influence the Conservative Party. Today there are early signs that Analysis is an important vehicle for the articulation of new ideas developing in the opposition Labour Party
It’s time to face it: some meetings can be a waste of your time
No full textGeoff Mulgan suggests seven ways to improve meetings, based on research and experienc
Reforming Whitehall: bluff, bluster, brilliance and brains
No full textGeoff Mulgan assesses Dominic Cummings’ proposals for reforming government and argues that, while bringing new people and ideas into Number 10 can be welcome, there are several pitfalls, not least in failing to learn from past attempts at reform
L'intelligence collective meilleure que les experts
No full textInternational audienceLe groupe peut-il prendre de meilleures décisions que l'individu ? Cette idée, présente chez Condorcet, est revisitée par Geoff Mulgan. L'auteur propose une courte synthèse de son ouvrage "Big Mind"
Is there a creative class?
No full textA recent CCI research report on the UK\u27s creative economy casts light on some of the most influential work in this field, by the American writer Richard Florida, and in particular its claims for a new “creative class”. Geoff Mulligan, Director of Nesta, writes:
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My colleague Hasan Bakhshi has just published a brilliant analysis of the creative economy in the UK. Written with Alan Freeman and Peter Higgs, this is the first time I have seen a seriously rigorous approach to creative industries and creative roles.
It shows that there is a distinct set of creative industries with a high proportion of creative roles, but also that there are more people with creative occupations outside the creative industries.
This work has many implications. Clearly creativity matters to some extent in almost any job. But a relatively small number of jobs give it much greater prominence. Hasan, Alan and Peter define creative jobs as ones with "a role within the creative process that brings cognitive skills to bear to bring about differentiation to yield either novel, or significantly enhanced products whose final form is not fully specified in advance".
Using existing definitions they show that there are some half a million people in creative roles in the UK\u27s creative industries - over half of all jobs in those industries, and slightly more in creative roles in other industries, but making up only 2% of total employment. Overall about 4% of the workforce fill creative roles.But applying their new more rigorous definition some roles fall in and others fall out and we\u27re left with a significantly higher estimate closer to two million, or around 7% of the workforce. The paper looks at different options and definitions but feels broadly right in the orders of magnitude it suggests.
One of the many implications of this work is to cast light on some of the most influential work in this field, by the American writer Richard Florida, and in particular its claims for a new \u27creative class\u27. Florida has become a best-selling author, a highly paid speaker and consultant, and has attracted his fair share of critics and enemies....
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