Jan
18
Review of CVSuite report : A Guide to Creatives in Rural California An Analysis of Economic Activity in the Creative Sector in California's Rural ZIP Codes The third post in the Our Creative Roots series looks at the report A Guide to Creatives in Rural California. The report was produced...
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Dec
21
Sarah Calhoun moved to White Sulphur Springs, Montana, in 2006, with the goal of launching her women’s workwear clothing company. She established Red Ants Pants, which was named after ant colonies where the female ants are the workers, in an old brick saddle shop she renovated on Main Street. Her...
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Dec
07
CVSuite's data partner, Emsi, interviews the team about best practices in creative economy definition and the history of the Creative Vitality Suite. This blog originally appeared on Emsi's blog and was written by Joshua Wright. For more on Emsi data, click here. For good reason, the creative economy and economic development are closely...
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Nov
29
In this 5-part series we will explore creative economy from the perspective of rural communities and challenges they face. In this post, author Patrick Overton kicks off our series by sharing his perspectives on the importance of developing methods for measuring the economic impact of creativity specific to the needs of...
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Nov
07
Welcome to the new CVSuite website! The new CVSuite website provides an engaging educational experience around creative economy data and showcases specific uses of the CVSuite tool. Which region indexes are higher in creativity -- Washington DC or Los Angeles? You can now visit cvsuite.org and download a free report...
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Oct
20
Emsi, the CVSuite data provider, recently launched Emsi Labs. Emsi provides the data that day to day users utilize within the CVSuite tool. According to Emsi’s blog post, the Emsi Labs are “interactive labor market prototypes” that allows users, “exclusive insights and a glimpse into the future of labor market...
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Sep
28
As creative economies continue to grow across the globe, many cities and states are realizing the value of dedicating time to researching and evaluating the health of their own creative economies and comparing them to cities of similar sizes and demographics. Data produced by platforms like CVSuite enable cities and...
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Sep
13
The maker movement is described by Brooks Rainwater in How the Maker Movement Is Revitalizing Industry in American Cities as, “the platform for today’s artisans to create, craft and develop leading ideas and products.” Rainwater makes the case that the maker movement is beneficial for the economy in his article,...
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Aug
25
The Creative Vitality Suite launches new industry and occupation codes on August 26th. The new codes will enable users to explore the impact of culinary arts and restoration/construction in the creative economy. CVSuite has new industries (NAICS codes) and occupations (SOC codes): Culinary arts and architectural restoration play important roles...
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Aug
17
Our vision for the CVSuite blog is that it serve as a place to present original material. Now and again; however, an item comes to our attention that we think is important to share. Such is the case with the piece presented here. It was written by Andrew Taylor who...
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