The Conference Board of Canada, with support from The Department of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada, is organizing an International Forum on the Creative Economy to take place in Ottawa/Gatineau on March 17 to 18, 2008.
This International Forum will include keynote speakers, presentations, lectures, and other activities aimed at examining recent evidence on the arts and cultural sector as an important engine of economic growth.
Papers must address one or more of the four Forum themes listed below:
Creative Economy in Transition: Arts and Culture in Domestic and Global Markets
Measuring Arts and Culture as an Economic and Social Engine of a Country’s Wealth
Consumption Dynamics: Consumers Driving Change
Innovation and Research: Mobilizing New Practices

All abstract submissions should be provided by email by December 7, 2007.