文化创意产业的起源、内涵与外延

Origin, Connotation, and Extension of Cultural Creative Industry

文化创意产业的起源、内涵、外延等基本理论问题关系到我国产业政策制定和学科发展。文化创意产业的概念在英国出现之前,文化产业发展和理论探讨早已出现,其产业行为更是可以追溯至数百年前。各国对文化创意产业的命名及内涵界定是迥异的,我国对其命名及内涵界定也并未统一。综合国内外的研究,发现文化创意产业就是通过人的创造力来激发文化的生命力、融合文化及相关产业、实现产业聚变效应的新兴产业形态。文化创意产业的外延出现了数十种不同界定,外延模糊甚至出现无限放大的乱象,将文化创意产业涵盖的众多产业门类分为三大门类:围绕文化创意内容的生产、文化创意产品的传播、文化创意服务的软硬件支持等三个领域。

Fundamental theoretical questions such as origin, connotation, and extension of cultural creative industry are related with formulation of industry policies and the development of this subject. Before the concept of cultural creative industry shows up in British, the development and theoretical discussion about cultural industry. Cultural industry can even date back to several hundred years ago. Different countries have different name and connotation to cultural creative industry.There is also no general name and connotation to cultural creative industry in our country. Through summarizing researches of foreign and domestic scholars, we can find that cultural creative industry is an emerging industry pattern stimulating vitality of culture, melting culture with other industry to realize industrial promoting effect. Extension of cultural creative industry is defined in dozens of ways. Extension confusion even enlarges infinitely. We think cultural industry businesses can be divided into three categories circled with the production of cultural creative extent, spread of cultural creative production and hardware and software support to cultural creative service.