Americans for the Arts conducts an annual survey of the Business Volunteers for the Arts® field for the purpose of providing the best possible benchmarking information about skills-based volunteer work in the arts.

On May 31, 2006, Mayor Cohen convened Portland's Creative Economy Summit. Over two hundred members of the Creative Economy attended the event, which was held in the Merrill Rehearsal Hall. After introductory remarks, the participants divided into three groups: creative individuals, creative organizations, and creative enterprises. Each group
worked to develop three action steps for enhancing Portland's creative economy; and at the end of the Summit, this list of nine steps was reduced by the full group to three final recommendations.

Many states have created arts-based economic development strategies to support rural communities across the who are confronting economic development issues.

Key data comparing cultural employment characteristics with total employment are revealed in a May 2004 press release issued by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities.

In this report, creativity is explored and defined in regards to novelty and appropriateness, and the thought mechanisms behind creativity are investigated.

In collaboration, The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and The Society for Human Resource Management conducted an in-depth study of the corporate perspective on the readiness of new entrants into the U.S. workforce by level of educational attainment.