Creative Economy Agency (CEA) is Thailand’s governmental organization that puts forth to develop the creative economy for economic and social growth. In parallel with supporting Thai creators and creative businesses to adopt creativity and innovation to enhance the competitiveness of Thai products and services, CEA fosters the community and the environment nurturing creative industries and innovations, as well as creative applications of ideas to generate and improve economic and social potentials. Under the management of CEA, Thailand Creative & Design Center (TCDC) continues the role in facilitating the opportunity for Thai creators and creative businesses in Bangkok and regional Thailand to access resources and creative spaces in order to leverage their creative prominences for Thailand’s social and economy development.
Vision
To become the key driving force of Thailand’s creative economy in the global arena.
Objective
1. To promote and develop the creative economy and its enabling factors in order to push forward the development and improvement of the economy.2. To promote and support the development of creativity and innovation to local communities, general public and educational institutions.3. To promote and develop spaces with conducive atmosphere for creativity and starting a new business, and the fostering of a creative economy district.4. To develop entrepreneurs and to promote the use of creative thinking process to creative products and build innovations for enhancement of country’s economic competitiveness.5. To function as a center that gathers collecting and develops information and statistics on the creative economy for policy-based decision-making, support creativity and build innovation.6. To promote and collaborate with public and private organizations, including international organizations, in order to exchange and transfer knowledge on creativity for the development of country’s creative economy.