CEIC · Creative Economy Impact Collective
India’s first village-led Creative Economy Operating System.
CEIC — the Creative Economy Impact Collective — is building CEOS, the operating system for India’s cultural, creative and experience capital. Turning what India practises every day into enterprise, experience, and export.
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01 · The Spectrum
One system for the full spectrum of India’s creative capital.
At the centre of our dot sits the village — where India’s creative capital lives deepest. And the system is built to travel from there.
From village arts to living experiences to cultural enterprise — one operating system.
02 · The National Moment
A national wave. Verified in the record.
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Government of India fund announced to power the creator economy, ahead of WAVES 2025.
Source · Ministry of I&B / PIB, 2025 ↗
$28B → $44.2BIndia's media & entertainment sector, projected by 2028.
Source · WAVES 2025 briefings, Govt of India ↗
~8%of India's workforce is employed by the creative economy.
Source · WAVES 2025 / Govt of India ↗
$350 Billionannual consumer spending influenced by India's 2–2.5 million digital creators.
Source · BCG, From Content to Commerce, 2025 ↗
Rs. 391 Croresanctioned for the Indian Institute of Creative Technology, Mumbai.
Source · Ministry of I&B, 2025 ↗
$3.89 BillionIndia's handicraft exports, FY25.
Source · EPCH / IBEF ↗
3.52 Millionpeople employed by handlooms, India's largest cottage industry.
Source · IBEF / Ministry of Textiles ↗
“The dawn of India’s Orange Economy.”
The Prime Minister at WAVES 2025: “Create in India, create for the world.”
Source · PIB, May 2025 ↗03 · The System
One system. From cultural asset to measured economy.
A linear, stage-wise pathway — not a loop. Each stage builds on the last.
Asset
Identity
Experience
Enterprise
Market
Capital
Governance
Impact
04 · Proof
In the field.
Live pilot
Pochampally, Telangana — the flagship live pilot: a living silk village, activated as a full experience economy.
Pipeline / scoping — Bay of Bapatla, craft clusters and heritage regions.
Roadmap — 200 Gram Panchayats across Andhra Pradesh & Telangana.
Early-stage. Built in the open. A working reference — not a claim.
From the field · Pochampally
Documented by the CEIC team
05 · Our Story
India creates every day.
In its studios and temples, looms and kitchens, stages and streets. CEIC exists to turn that daily creativity into thriving enterprise — organised, incubated, and connected to the world.
06 · Partner
One system. Three doors.
01
Governments & Districts
Activate your region on a proven, stage-wise pathway.
Request a District Briefing →02
Foundations & CSR
Convert grant capital into working local economies.
Request the Partnership Dossier →03
Institutions & Research
Access a living laboratory of India's creative economy.
Propose a Collaboration →07 · Begin
Every great economy was built on a system. India’s creative economy now has one.
Bring CEOS to your district, your portfolio, your institution.