ABSTRACT
The concluding chapter provides a guiding map for successful R&D&I in the creative industries. After reiterating the book’s vision and the multiple approaches deployed for analysing R&D&I in the creative industries, the chapter draws the most important conclusions for each book chapter. In doing so it stresses the importance of understanding the historical context in which the concept of R&D&I developed in the creative industries, the relevance of an extended definition of R&D that aligns with real mechanisms of the sector, the need for developing novel R&D-based typologies of innovation and support mechanisms (e.g. funding) that meet the needs of R&D implementers and the context within which they operate. The chapter then uses these reflections to draw overall conclusions about the frameworks, models and pathways resulting from the research. It finally closes by stressing: (1) the need for expanding this research (geographically and content-wise), (2) the real social, economic and cultural value that R&D brings to creative economies and (3) the importance of innovative funding and support ecosystems that are aligned to the realities of the creative sector.
