Mora County, long plagued by poverty and isolation, is at a turning point. The first county in the nation to ban fracking, the community is setting its sights on the creative economy and cultural tourism. Community leadership, broadband, and innovation are working in sync to bring creative economy opportunities to this rural hamlet nestled in the mountains of New Mexico.
5. The Cultural Industries:
• Performance arts
• Fine arts
• Film and music
• Publishing
• Planning & architecture
• Food & agriculture
• Crafts
• Tourism & Recreation
• Media/journalism
Kathleen Fontaine
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2003
7. Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013
Jonathan Sims
No Reservations Productions
8. “Unless communities
can think about what
they have to offer
themselves, they’ll
either get stuck trying
to be what another
place already is, or be
held back trying to be
something they used to
be.”
~ Nate Berg
9. GLOBAL DATA
“Global trade in creative products more than
doubled from 2002 to 2011.
The average annual growth rate during that
period was 8.8 per cent.”
UNESCO, 2013
16. Entrepreneurs
• Greater valuing of entrepreneurs
• Increased exchange with global flow of
ideas, talent, and markets
• Foster entrepreneurial
interaction/exchange
• Market development and access
17. Leadership and Policy
• Long-term, apolitical, and consistent policy
• Let entrepreneurs and industry leaders
lead
• Foster global thinking and access
• Strategic investment in the creative
economy