Besides offering Singapore with abundant opportunities, enhanced lifestyle and an attractive “work, live, play, and learn” ecosystem, Singapore’s creative industries will also be one of the key driving forces in the next phase of Singapore’s development as a knowledge-based economy.
As such, a strategy aimed at propelling Singapore closer to the league of creative cities such as London, New York, San Francisco and Venice has been put in place.
The Singapore Department of Statistics has estimated the value of Singapore’s creative industries to be around 3% of GDP in 2000.
With a holistic and concerted approach to developing the creative industries in Singapore, the cluster has the potential to contribute 6% of GDP by 2012, which would be comparable to creative cities mentioned above. The creative industries could potentially employ 5 – 7% of Singapore’s national workforce.
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