The role of complexity in the creative economies: connecting people, ideas and practice

该研究项目探讨了复杂性理论、途径和方法在研究创意经济的不同方面的重要性。它建立了一个知识社区和在线资源，使研究人员能够考虑复杂性理论在分析人、思想和实践之间的相互联系方面带来的优势和挑战。通过三项独立的试点研究，该项目在不同规模上参与创意经济的不同动态：从创意的产生和发展动态，到协作工作和知识交流，再到协调生产和消费，并考虑到中介机构在区域创意集群中的作用。在涉及创意经济的关键问题时，该项目反映了使用复杂性理论所带来的优势和挑战。整体复杂性理论允许研究人员揭示不同性质和方向的动态，为受这些动态塑造的创造性主体提供中心舞台，同时为当地社区、创造性事件和活动以及区域背景的变化做出贡献。先导研究中使用的复杂性方法使我们对创意经济作为一个复杂系统的多尺度联系有了更清晰的理解。在研究项目期间遇到的挑战--即考虑联系与因果关系和特殊性与可比性--为进一步研究和进一步扩大复杂性理论在创意经济中的应用提供了肥沃的场所。

The research project explored the importance of complexity theory approaches and methods in investigating different aspects of the creative economy. It has built a knowledge community and online resources to enable researchers to consider advantages and challenges presented by complexity theory in analysing the interconnections between people, ideas and practice. Through three independent pilot studies the project engaged with different dynamics of the creative economy at different scales: from idea generation and development dynamics, to collaborative work and knowledge exchange, to reconciling production and consumption and taking into account the role of intermediaries in regional creative clusters. While engaging with key issues of the creative economy the project reflected on the advantages and challenges presented by the use of complexity theory. Overall complexity theory allows researchers to unfold dynamics of different nature and directions, giving central stage to creative agents who are shaped by these dynamics while contributing to changes within local communities, creative events and activities and regional contexts. Complexity approaches used in the pilot studies have given us a clearer understanding of the multi-scale connections which characterise the creative economy as a complex system. The challenges met during the research projects - namely considering connections vs. causality and specificity vs. comparability - provide fertile venues for further research and for further expansion on the use of complexity theory in the creative economy.