Podcast: Transition To The Creative Economy
Podcast | philmckinney | May 23, 2006 at 1:00 pmDateline: Washington D.C.
This is a ‘quick’ podcast containing the speech I gave last week. The topic was the transition from the knowledge/information economy to the creative economy. The audience was local political and business leaders from the Washington D.C. area.
Note: This speech is very U.S. centric so I apologize to the non-US listeners. The general topic and points raised can be applied to any economy.
No Killer Question this week ….. I’m squeezing this podcast in as I’m wrapping up family obligations around my daughters wedding.
Tags: business leaders, creative economy, family obligations, information economy, killer questions, speech, squeezing, transition
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Great speech. Was this part of a whole program? where other speakers there?
I’m asking because I wanted to understand the context of the speech. Who was there, did the listeners do anything to follow your speech etc.
Congrats on your daughters wedding.
Bruce
I was the only speaker at the event. It was sponsored by the Fauquier County County Board and the Fauquier High Tech Alliance (www.fauquiertechnology.org). Fauquier is the closest “rural” county near Washington D.C. and its were my house is located.
It was their annual “Business Appreciation Week”.
In attendance was mostly local politicians, small and medium business owners and technology professionals.
I took questions at the end and had about a dozen asked. The most common topic during the Q&A were ….
- How do we get the education system to start teaching creativity?
- How do you get management to embrace the creative economy?
- What college majors should those entering college consider?
Sounds familier … doesn’t it??
How inspiring. I like your idea of needing fine arts-manager to return to a creativity based product development.
Best regards, Frank
I was just at the Human Capital Institute’s Chicago summit where Richard Florida spoke on this topic. Very good…very complimentary to Phil’s speech (very good also).
When I was in elementary school, I was in an group that got to do “extra stuff” based upon imagination and creativity. We made short animated cartoons, did plays, used photquipment to make film. This was back in the late 70’s but I still remember it. The teacher now runs a program for gifted children in Neenah, Wi… I think.
1) In your speech you mentioned East European country Czechoslovakia, didn’t you? There’s no such country. Czech Republic and Slovak Republic are separate countries now.
2) I do not think that average education level in US is higher than in other countries (especially European). European education system provides broader knowledge based on at least two thousand year heritage. Maybe US student’s knowledge is more practical and more “getting things done” oriented but in case of unexpected circumstances or lack of procedures the US student is like a child in the fog.
3) Your voice during the live speech was more “live” than while you are recording your podcasts. I think recording podcasts without audience kills your emotions so your voice is very monotonous.