Insights and analysis

Long Live the Smart, Sustainable and Creative City

Introduction to the study on "Smart City" and the 10 case studies For a few years now, politicians, corporations and academics around the world have been talking about "smart cities". All cities want to become "smart" or "smarter" and nobody knows what it means anymore. Some consider the “smart city” – at times a concept, at others a buzzword –…

May 8, 2022

Archive Data

Jobradar for Creative Occupations Switzerland 2012Q1–2022Q1

The jobradar shows the development of the number of open job positions (vacancies) in creative occupations Switzerland for 2012 to 2022.

Roman PageApril 30, 2022

Digitalisation

Thinking ecology and the digital humanities

An atypical figure in the sciences, Bruno Latour is one of the most influential French philosophers today. “Où atterrir?”; “Où suis-je ?”: These are the titles of French philosopher Bruno Latour’s two most recent books and also their main questions. Latour, a thinker of ecology and the digital humanities, has his feet on the ground rather than above. His best-selling…

April 21, 2022

Archive Data

Creative Economy Switzerland 2010Q1–2021Q4

The figures show the development of the number of employed persons in the Creative Economy Switzerland for the quarters 2010Q1 to 2021Q4.

Roman PageMarch 29, 2022

Archive Data

Jobradar for Creative Occupations Switzerland 2012Q1–2021Q4

The jobradar shows the development of the number of open job positions (vacancies) in creative occupations Switzerland for 2012 to 2021.

Roman PageFebruary 28, 2022

Entrepreneurial Strategies

Creative radar: Mapping the UK’s creative industries (PEC, 2020)

Major urban centres are the sorts of places we would expect to find creative businesses clustered together. Yet go beyond London’s Shoreditch, Manchester’s Northern Quarter, or Edinburgh’s Cowgate, and you can find microclusters of creative firms in places that we wouldn’t necessarily expect them to be. SEE PUBLICATION

December 29, 2021

Art & Design Careers

The Art in the Artificial (PEC, Nesta 2020)

Artificial intelligence (AI) will play an important role in the creative industries in the future. AI algorithms are already recommending creative content on websites such as Spotify and Netflix, and recent developments in AI have further enhanced the ability of algorithms to analyse image, text and sound data that are found throughout the creative industries. Against this background, the report…

December 29, 2021

Cultural Policies

Cultural Economy in Switzerland (FSO 2020)

In accordance with an agreement with the Federal Office of Culture (FOC), the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) has compiled new statistics on the cultural industry in Switzerland. The definition of cultural industries used is based on the specifications of the EU statistics office (Eurostat). In contrast to the broader "creative economy" approach, which also includes IT and software as well…

December 29, 2021

Portraits

Spotlight Cases

Creative Economy Employment Switzerland 2010Q1–2023Q1

The Art in the Artificial (PEC, Nesta 2020)

Creative Economy Switzerland 2010Q1–2022Q2

State of the arts Cultural policies : Mapping a field in the process of reinvention

Simon Grand, Christoph Weckerle, “The Palaver on Scaling Enterprises” (2017)

Long Live the Smart, Sustainable and Creative City

Jobradar for Creative Occupations Switzerland 2012Q1–2022Q1

Thinking ecology and the digital humanities

Creative Economy Switzerland 2010Q1–2021Q4

Jobradar for Creative Occupations Switzerland 2012Q1–2021Q4

Creative radar: Mapping the UK’s creative industries (PEC, 2020)

The Art in the Artificial (PEC, Nesta 2020)

Cultural Economy in Switzerland (FSO 2020)

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