Why culture matters (economically speaking)
As an introductory piece for Overdose.am, thank you for the opportunity, I would like to highlight a political and economic principle concerning the creative and cultural industries of Amsterdam. Amsterdam is the heart of the Dutch creative industry and the cultural sector is a large part of that. The creative industry has a higher job growth rate than the wider economy and has the focus of the Dutch government to ensure international competitiveness and economic growth for the future. The target is to be the most creative region of the EU by 2020, a goal the Boekman Stichting devoted their most recent issue to. (..more)