Industries that thrive on creativity are now becoming more prevalent in Asian countries such as Singapore, China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and Malaysia. However, here in the Philippines, there is no comprehensive creative industry mapping yet that has been done by the Philippine government. In this connection, a senior official of the Intellectual Property Office IPO-Philippines, Director General Ricardo Blancaflor gave strong emphasis on the promotion of a “creative economy” in the country and reiterated that it will be a great help to the Philippine economy; as long as it will be given full financial support by the government. In addition to that, there must be a strong discipline orientation among the Filipinos with regard to the respect to copyrights and trademarks.
Instead of focusing on labor-exporting professions like caregiving, nursing, and marine industries, why not devote our time and effort in the creation of a suitable framework that is really needed for the management of our own creative resources. Therefore, there must be a good academic orientation among our educators as well as among the students so as to give focus on reviving our own culture and arts. Through this way, there would be a lot of jobs that can be created for the Filipino youth today. All we need is to modify the government perspective towards the “creative industries in the country. We must open our minds about many jobs as well as entrepreneurial opportunities that we have here in our own country.
Correspondingly, we produce a lot of skilled and talented individuals such as artists, designers, engineers and architects. All these professionals are even sought after by the leading companies abroad to work for them. There is evidence that Filipinos are skilled and talented individuals even if some of them did not acquire formal education in their existing field but through trainings and solid work experience. There are a lot of us who are able to market our talent and skills in the world market.
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