The National Culture Industry Research Center of Nanjing University was set up at the approval of the State Ministry of Culture in January 2007. Its predecessor was the Institute of Cultural Development of the university. In 2007, it became one of those in the first batch of the Ministry-of-Culture approved research centers.
The center’s research focuses on major theoretical and practical problems encountered in the development of cultural industry in China. It explores an effective model of the cultural industry development and trains cultural industry research personnel and senior management personnel. On the basis of the consistent development and integration of cultural-industry-related research findings and education resources, it makes efforts to build an open, high-level cultural industry research center of China.
Since its establishment, the center has been active in organizing various academic activities such as organizing international conferences like the Joint International Symposium on Cultural Space in Creative Cities and publishing journals and books like Cultural Industry Research (13 issues), Cultural Industry Economics and Cultural Heritage Economics.
The center has post-doctoral, doctoral and master programs and has a contingent of active, capable and high-level researchers. The major research projects the center has completed and is working on include the following:
Reform in Cultural System during the Economic Transition and the Development of Cultural Industry, Development, one of the Important Projects invited to bid by the Central Publicity Department of CPC
Research on the Strategies, Ideas, Models, Approaches and Policies of Building up Jiangsu as a Strong Cultural Province, one of the Important Projects sponsored by the 2010 University Philosophy and Social Science Research Fund
Dynamic Mechanisms Study on Creative Industry Space Evolution from the Perspective of Evolutionary Economic Geography, a project sponsored by the 2013 National Natural Science Fund
Market Segmentation and Non-Economic Barriers in the Process of Culture Industry Market Integration in the Yangtze River Delta, an Important Project by the State Ministry of Culture
The State Council’s Several Suggestions on Promoting the Integrated Development of Cultural Creativity and Design Services with Related Industries
The center is also engaged in international communication and exchange with famous universities all around the world like the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Tokyo University and University of Southampton.
Contact
Ma Qing
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