Open-studio environments in creative industry precinct—A study on Hangzhou design talent cultivation mode

The emerging creative economy, on the one hand, has become a leading component of economic growth, employment, trade and innovation, and social cohesion in most advanced economies; on the other hand, it offers to developing countries a feasible option and new opportunities to leapfrog into emerging high-growth areas of the world economy. In China, how to effectively cultivate high-quality world-class creative talents to adapt to the rapid development of creative industry has been becoming a problem should be solved urgently. This study helps build a reasonable design-talent cultivation mode-an open studio environment in creative industry precinct-for the development of Hangzhou local creative economy and serves as a source of reference for creative talent cultivation model in developing countries.