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The latest measurement of Maine's creative economy, to be released today, gives the state a reasonable baseline from which to watch how this portion of the economy is performing. But before it gets too focused on the size of the creative sector or the amount of money it generates, Maine should notice that all parts of the economy are potentially creative and that it would do well to encourage more creative thinking.
The new report is modest in scope. Part of the reason for this, according to Muskie School Professor Richard Barringer, a member of the research team that wrote the report, "The Creative Economy in Maine," is that time limits forced the team to use existing data.See the full content of this document
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Growing Creatively
This was difficult, he said, because government sources have yet to shift from measuring a manufacturing-based economy. That makes economic cat...
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