This essay by Simon Grand and Christoph Weckerle was published in PHASE XI, a 2017 publication of the Competence Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries of the Federal Government (Germany).
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Simon Grand, Christoph Weckerle, “What if? The Creative Economies as a central research field of the future” (2017)
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