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# Creative Economy – Recorded LIVE!
- URL: https://www.philmckinney.com/creative-economy-recorded-live/
- Published: 2008-04-20T17:56:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-01T14:10:32.000Z
- Author: Phil McKinney
- Tags: Past Shows, Studio Sessions, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-03-26 05:08

*Recorded live April 4, 2008 at the Business Alliance Bootcamp for Growing Companies and Entrepreneurs …*

Change is something we may try to stop but never will. From the agriculture economy to the manufacturing economy to the knowledge/information economy to that of the creative economy … where wealth creation is dependent upon the capacity of a nation to continually create ideas. In short, a nation without a vibrant creative labor force does not possess the knowledge base to succeed in the creative economy, and must depend on ideas produced elsewhere.

The creative economy is a new a world in which people work with their brains instead of their hands. A world in which innovation is more important than mass production. A world in which investment buys new concepts or the means to create them, rather than new machines.

In this new world … ideas are the new global currency…

Link to the slides: [PPT for Creative Economy](http://www.slideshare.net/philmckinney/creative-economy-341054?ref=philmckinney.com)