By Niu Jiaru, Yang Xiaodong & Zhang Youjia, Research Team on “The Development of Cultural Consumption Market in Beijing”, Research Institute of Public Administration and Human Resources, DRC

Research Report No.163, 2016 (Total 5046) 2016-12-05

Abstract: The maker space for cultural and creative industries is a new-type business start-up service platform，providing working, cyber, communicating and resource-sharing space to cultural enterprises, business start-up groups and makers, and it is also an important carrier to push forward the supply-side structural reform of cultural and creative industries. In recent years, a number of potential and characteristic maker space for cultural and creative industries have emerged in many places, and remarkable progress has been made in light of fostering the innovation and business start-up of cultural and creative industries. However, the survey results show that some problems relating to the healthy development of cultural and creative industries remain to be solved. For instance, the innovation and business start-up services remain to be improved, the standard system of cultural and creative industries construction is inappropriate, the development principles for further progress are not clear and supporting policies are not yet in place. The following policy options are made for addressing these problems. 1. The standard system for the construction and development of cultural and creative space needs to be improved; 2. The financial supporting policies need to be enhanced; 3. Government’s public service needs to be effectively strengthened; 4. The statistical, monitoring and evaluating systems need to be fleshed out.

Key words: cultural and creative industries’ maker space, innovation and business start-up, Beijing