Chris Hayen has been the lead developer for the Creative Vitality™ Suite tool since its inception. Employed full-time with WESTAF, Chris works and lives in Baltimore with his girlfriend and two children. How has your experience with creating the CVSuite been different from development of other products? We’re working on... read more →
Apr
12
Mar
24
The Broadening Definition of Creative Economy: A four part series This post is the final post in our four-part series on the broadening definition of the creative economy. For this post, we interviewed two individuals who work in very different roles in the start-up space. Out of those interviews we... read more →
Mar
09
This blog is the third in our four-part series on the broadening definition of the creative economy. The series explores the creative economy as a phenomenon constantly evolving multiple definitions. This post examines the nexus of nonprofit arts to the broader creative economy. Although the nonprofit arts and culture sector... read more →
Feb
22
This post is part two of a four-part series on the ever-growing understanding of the creative economy. It explores the groundbreaking report “The Orange Economy, An Infinite Opportunity”, which was issued in 2013 by the Inter-American Development Bank. Part 1: Notable Events in the the last 20 years in the... read more →
Feb
08
Twenty years ago, creative economy centered around a perspective focusing primarily on the economic impact of creative industries. Fast forward to today, and in 2016, we hear this term used broadly to describe a wide array of activities related to the importance of creativity as an economic driver. Historically, the... read more →
Nov
23
In 2014, workers in Creative Occupations earned a median of $20.35 hourly. New York's earnings for creative occupations came in at the highest with $25.60 earnings. Find out how your state performed in the chart below. For more information about your states earnings and creative economy data please visit cvsuite.org... read more →
Oct
22
In late August, New York Times Magazine writer Steven Johnson authored an article titled “The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t.” The article made the point that, in spite of fears about the diminishment of creative sector jobs related to the sharing economy, those jobs are growing. The piece prompted a series... read more →
Sep
28
Now that you have high quality economic data to measure your creative economy, you’ll want to present that data in a format that can be easily understood. There are many tools available online to help you work with your data, but it can be difficult to decide which ones to... read more →
Sep
11
When taking on the--sometimes difficult--task of quantifying an area’s creative economy, you will want access to every tool at your disposal. One useful tool is location quotient (LQ) data. The location quotient can be used to reveal the level of concentration a particular occupation or industry has in a specified... read more →
Sep
04
The Creative Vitality™ Suite is a powerful tool, containing data that has many potential uses. The online tool offers a few different ways to download data. #1 Regional Snapshot PDF report The one page, regional snapshot PDF report provides an overview of an area's occupations, industries, grants and nonprofits. The... read more →