Created by arts researcher Susan Monagan, economic geographer Susan Christopherson and entrepreneurship expert Suzanne Loker, the toolkit is excerpted from their recent research paper on creative-economy initiatives in New York.
The authors focus on the potential role of higher-education institutions in building local creative economies and lay out specific strategies for community and regional economic-development planning. These strategies include: stakeholder gatherings, super-collaborators, local and regional arts councils, festivals and special events, collaborative organizational designs, service-learning arts projects, student-led community arts projects, research collaborations, and arts-based brick-and-mortar projects.
The toolkit is followed by research references and an appendix of useful national and New York State creative-economy resources.

http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2007/08/the_creative_ec.php