Tom Fleming - director of Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy
Dr Tom Fleming is a leading international thinker and strategist on the creative economy, city-making and arts and cultural policy. As director of Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy, Tom works with national, regional and local governments, plus multiple NGOs, to introduce positive and innovative change.
The key spheres of his professional interests include:
Creative clusters and innovation ecosystems: maximising the economic growth of the creative and knowledge economy; linking creativity to innovation.
Creative city-making: positioning creativity and culture at the heart of planning, social, economic and education policy.
Culture, Arts, Creativity & Innovation Policy: leading thinking on new infrastructure models, fitter for purpose creative and cultural education policy, and social innovation through creative approaches.
Speaking & Persuading: Tom is an active public speaker and writer. He works internationally to develop dialogue and broker partnership. He has spoken at events in over 20 countries. He is also adviser to the Council of Europe, European Commission, Alliance of Civilisations, UNESCO, British Council and Nordic Council of Ministers.
1. tom fleming / creative consultancy / www.tfconsultancy.co.uk Moscow, December 2011 Creative Entrepreneurship: a New Industrial Age for Russia?
2. tom fleming / creative consultancy / We are a high profile creative economy, arts and cultural planning consultancy based in London, and we offer policy and industry leadership across the creative, cultural and knowledge economy. Through research, strategy and partnership , we position creativity as a key tool for economic and social development. about us www.tfconsultancy.co.uk
3. tom fleming / creative consultancy / our portfolio CHINA & KOREA : Creative Economy Strategy support in Guangzhou, Shenzhen & Seoul NORDIC REGION : Creative Industries Green Paper for the Nordic countries UK & IRELAND A Leading Creative Economy Consultancy and Research Company driving policy at a high level EGYPT & DUBAI : Creative Cluster development BULGARIA & GREECE : Creative Investment & cluster consultancy www.tfconsultancy.co.uk USA : Creative Economy Strategic Planning for Boise, Idaho; & Intercultural City consultancy, Chicago RUSSIA : Creative Cluster Development and Strategy, Tolgliatti, Perm, Novosibirsk, Altai, Tula, Arkhangelsk, Sochi & Moscow PORTUGAL: Creative Economy Strategy for Northern Portugal, ECOC Guimaraes 2012 BRAZIL : Creativity and Innovation Strategy in Sergipe & Creative Industries Investment consultancy, Sao Paulo POLAND & HOLLAND : Warsaw ECOC Quest: Design in Manufacturing Strategy UKRAINE : Creative Economy Mapping Support LEBANON & SYRIA : Cultural Planning &Creative Industries Mapping and Strategy Development BALTIC STATES : Creative Mapping & Strategy in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania SLOVENIA, SLOVAKIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA , CROATIA & MONTENEGRO : Creative Economy Strategy Support MONGOLIA: Cultural Policy Support
4. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / I’ve got 20 things to say…
5. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / In 4 Sections…
6. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / Section 1. Let’s not get too excited.
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10. Analogue Consumers Digital Consumers tom fleming/ creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy /
11. tom fleming / creative consultancy / Chris Smith – ‘Lord Smith of Finsbury’ tom fleming / creative consultancy /
12. Based on the Trajectory and Rhetoric of Growth tom fleming / creative consultancy /
13. tom fleming / creative consultancy / The Creative Industries: “ (T)hose industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property.” (DCMS 2001).
14. tom fleming / creative consultancy / The Production of the Conceptual & Policy Universe
20. tom fleming / creative consultancy / Crisis? What Crisis?
21. Crisis? What Crisis? “ When faced with a crisis, people do one of two things. Either they ignore it and carry on, in the hope that repeating what they did before will work better, or they innovate their way out of trouble and make a new future.” (After The Crunch CCI Skills 2009). tom fleming / creative consultancy /
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58. "Look into the toolbox - creativity is the only tool we have left ... and it's important to see it in the round: creativity is a new drug, or a better engine for cars - we shouldn't get trapped in a narrow definition." (Lord Puttnam). tom fleming / creative consultancy /
59. tom fleming / creative consultancy / Nurturing the possibility of creative work
60. tom fleming / creative consultancy / Using the whole brain
61. tom fleming / creative consultancy / Developing Fluencies
62. tom fleming / creative consultancy / Creative Applications…
87. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / 10. Diversity advantage
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89. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / Section 3. Business, business, business
90. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / 11. The intermediary agency?
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92. tom fleming / creative consultancy / The exceptionalism of the creative entrepreneur?
93. tom fleming / creative consultancy / Cultural Commercial Mine Ours Project Portfolio Value Price
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95. tom fleming / creative consultancy / What kind of intermediary do we need?
96. Equipped to Succeed? Business planning and development Accessing finance Intellectual property rights Peer-to peer knowledge Markets and supply chains A role in place-making tom fleming / creative consultancy /
108. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / Organic & Distinctive
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110. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / The ‘Hygiene factors’ Build on the ‘organic’ Mix disciplines Production & consumption Mix of rents & models Open & fun Curate it Connect hubs Position as a cultural asset
111. tom fleming / creative consultancy / Curating the mix? Integrating support Generating social capital?
112. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / 13. The distributed cluster?
113. 1. Sector specific and not generic tom fleming / creative consultancy /
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116. tom fleming / creative consultancy / 14. The renaissance of the arts &cultural sector? tom fleming / creative consultancy /
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118. “ We are most interested in collisions of experience and cultures, to create something new. A laboratory for experiment, risk and disruption. We are a router and amplifier of cultural ideas, creativity and technology” (Dick Penny, Managing Director, Watershed). tom fleming / creative consultancy /
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130. tom fleming / creative consultancy / Different Types of Convergence
131. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / Section 4. Social Capital & the creative economy
132. tom fleming / creative consultancy / 16. It’s not about support, it’s about relationships…? tom fleming / creative consultancy /
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134. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / 17. It’s not about growth, it’s about value
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136. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / 18. It’s not about just now, it’s about sustainability?
137. Not just adapting but delivering change tom fleming / creative consultancy /
138. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / 19. It’s not about size, it’s about quality?
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140. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / Small is Beautiful (too) tom fleming / creative consultancy /
141. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / 20. It’s about the city
142. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / (Re)Imagining the Possibility of the City tom fleming / creative consultancy /
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144. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / Delivering Social Capital
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146. tom fleming / creative consultancy / And Leveraging Social Capital of the Creative Entrepreneur tom fleming / creative consultancy /
147. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / Niche Distinctive Hyper-relevant
148. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / Locally Embedded
149. tom fleming / creative consultancy / tom fleming / creative consultancy / Globally Connected
150. tom fleming / creative consultancy / With Creative Entrepreneurs at the heart of the project tom fleming / creative consultancy /
151. tom fleming / creative consultancy / Or in Russia can we just let the creatives get on with it? tom fleming / creative consultancy /
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153. tom fleming / creative consultancy / We are a high profile creative economy, arts and cultural planning consultancy based in London, and we offer policy and industry leadership across the creative, cultural and knowledge economy. Through research, strategy and partnership , we position creativity as a key tool for economic and social development. about us www.tfconsultancy.co.uk twitter / @tfconsultancy www.tfconsultancy.co.uk