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Howkins, John --- "Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property: A New Approach for the 21st Century" [2007] ELECD 155; in Waelde, Charlotte; MacQueen, Hector (eds), "Intellectual Property" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007)

Book Title: Intellectual Property

Editor(s): Waelde, Charlotte; MacQueen, Hector

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845428747

Section: Chapter 7

Section Title: Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property: A New Approach for the 21st Century

Author(s): Howkins, John

Number of pages: 9

Extract:

7. Creativity, innovation and intellectual
property: a new approach for the 21st
century1
John Howkins

1 INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE SCENE
One of the key issues facing us today is the relationship between people's crea-
tivity, which is usually private, personal and local, and global governance,
standards and laws on intellectual property. It is a contentious issue because it
involves not only our free speech and free expression but how we choose to live
in societies based increasingly on monetising ideas.
The strength of both individual ambition and corporate power can lead to
conflict and bad feeling. We need a new approach. I believe the way to resolve
the tension lies through a better understanding of the process of creativity and
innovation. I want to explore how, at each stage of the creative process, ideas
move back and forth between the private and public domains. I also want to
discuss the RSA Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual
Property which arose, in part, from these concerns.
My other reference point is the creative economy. I prefer the word `economy'
to `industry' because I want to include all parts of the process from production
(supply) to consumption and use (demand). The word `industry' puts too much
emphasis on the supply-side and not enough on the demand side. I also want to
include the public. One of the characteristics of the creative economy is that it
is an economy based on the individual, both as creator and as user. This, ...