Latest Monitoring Report: Germany’s Cultural and Creative Industries Continue to Grow

The number of workers liable to social security contributions in Germany’s cultural and creative industries rose by 2.3 per cent in 2014. Total revenue, the number of companies, number of employees and value added also increased compared to the previous year. In 2014, more than a million workers, 808,000 of them employees liable to social security contributions, in over 248,600 companies produced total turnover of 146 billion euros (2.2 per cent higher than in the previous year). These are the results of a recent monitoring report on the state of the cultural and creative industries in Germany regularly compiled by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) as part of the Federal government's Cultural and Creative Industries Initiative.

The 2014 monitoring report gives some indication of the significance, position and development of the cultural and creative industries within the economy as a whole. The focus of this year’s report is innovation.

The monitoring report was presented by Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Brigitte Zypries, on 25 November 2015 as part of the cultural and creative industries annual conference. For an abridged version of the monitoring report (in German), please go to www.kultur-kreativ-wirtschaft.de.

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Professor Irene Bertschek, Phone +49 (0)6211235-178, E-mail bertschek@zew.de