Creative industries and their role in the creative value chain – a comparative study of SMEs in Canada and Thailand

The terms ‘creative economy’ and ‘creative industries’ refer to

emerging models of development that play a major role in both creativity and

in the intellectual capital for economic development, while the creative value

chain is one of the most straightforward and widely recognised methods used in

analysing the structure and function of creative industries. This paper has

three objectives: 1) to identify the role of SMEs in the creative value chain;

2) to compare the role of SMEs in the creative value chain in Canada and

Thailand; 3) to identify the challenges that Thai SMEs face in the creative

value chain and to see what lessons can be learned from Canadian SMEs. This

research is one of the first studies to compare the role of SMEs in the creative

value chain, especially in the context of a comparative study between a

developed and a developing country.