Powershift to Creative People
After financiers, privat equity and hedge funds have been ruling the economic game, creative entrepreneurs are on the rise, says Bernard Lunn in an article on the Read/WriteWeb Blog.
Creative people - whether they are developers, musicians, actors, scientists, writers or (insert creative type that I annoyingly may have omitted) - are the next Masters of the Universe. Entrepreneurs who tap the rise of the creative class will do well, but the trend is a deeper one that makes creative people into entrepreneurs.
Today, more and more artists are selling their works on the web (like e.g. Radiohead are doing it right now). Small software teams can implement web applications that are suddenly used by thousands or millions of people.
Lunn mentions several good reasons for the shift of power. One of them being the fact that you can outsource “pretty much everything other than creativity”. I think this is only partly correct. It might be true for art - but when it comes to products and services, a growing market of IdeaFactories and innovation suppliers show, that even creativity is something you can buy from others.
October 15th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
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