The Creative Industries is an innovative and fast growing economic sector worldwide. According to Statistics Canada this sector contributed $23.8B to Ontario’s economy in 2010. Unlike many other economic sectors, it is not solely reliant on built infrastructure. Rather, this sector thrives where the people and interest are present to support it.

Sarnia-Lambton has both of these elements in abundance.

What are the Creative Industries?

The Creative Economy in Sarnia-Lambton is defined as:

  • Arts and Culture (art, crafts, books, film, music, performance, video games)
  • Heritage (natural and cultural)
  • Design (architecture, design, fashion, toys/games)
  • Media (ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, radio, tv)
  • Innovation (R&D, software, dotcoms)

Sarnia-Lambton Creative Industries Advantages

  • Strong digital infrastructure features fibre connections and high speed
  • Very reasonable cost of buildings means you can buy a commercial building and a house for less than the price of a house in larger centres
  • One hour to Detroit and 3 hours by car to Toronto means easy access to client base

 

Creative Entrepreneur Support

The Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership, through SLEP’s Business Enterprise Centre will work with individuals or companies in Sarnia-Lambton, at no cost, to help produce:

  • Shared spaces feasibility studies
  • Business plans
  • Marketing analysis
  • Business registration

 

SLEP’s Entrepreneur’s Library contains hundreds of links, with a wide variety of information from business planning to grants for creative businesses.

 

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