Paul Goble
Staunton,
Oct. 24 – Over the last five years, the number of Russians working in creative
fields has risen from 3.9 million to 4.8 million, the Institute for Statistical
Research and Economic Knowledge of the Higher School of Economics says, but the
number of businesses in this sector has fallen by 25 percent and is
accelerating.
In
2016, 9700 creative enterprises closed; in 2017, 3700; in 2018, 11,000; in 2019,
19,500; and in 2020, more than 20,000, the HSE researchers say (issek.hse.ru/news/522653516.html
and https://www.finanz.ru/novosti/aktsii/rossiya-poteryala-25percent-kreativnogo-biznesa-za-pyat-let-1030912526).
What
has happened, they continue, is that many smaller firms have closed down or
been absorbed by larger ones. If new smaller firms were emerging, that process
would not be a problem as larger firms often allow ideas developed in smaller
ones to flourish. But that isn’t happening.
Instead,
the share of this sector smaller firms occupy has declined, a development that
by itself means that places where innovation most often happens are
disappearing in Russia, a trend that points to a further decline in
inventiveness in a variety of sectors of the Russian economy, the HSE
investigators conclude.
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