今日的世界各國越來越重視創意產業的發展，將創意產業做為國家經濟發展及社會生活品質提升的重要關鍵因素。台灣在這樣的影響下，行政院在「挑戰2008 : 國家發展重點計劃」中提出推動文化創意產業的計畫。然而在面臨推動文化創意產業的過程中，公部門扮演著相當關鍵的角色。文化產業發展的實質運轉主體為民間部門，而公部門在資源運用方面，掌握有公權力及資源，彼此需要適當的安排與分工。因此文化創意產業在成為公部門的一項政策中，公部門如何引導與協助文化創意產業的成功，便成為重要的課題。從文化創意產業的構想，來觀看新竹市的玻璃工藝。民國八十年，經由文建會的核定，新竹市選擇以能夠永久保存的玻璃工藝作為地方特色。但欲成為成功的文化創意產業，新竹市的玻璃工藝仍有成長的空間，有待地方政府制定有效的政策與執行。 本研究透過文獻分析法與深入訪談法，探討過去到現在地方政府在整體的文化政策與文化發展中的角色轉變；並從個案新竹玻璃工藝中，了解地方政府在推展文化創意產業時，與其他各相關組織的關係以及在整體產業發展中的角色為何，並提供相關的建議作為參考。本研究共分為六章，各章的主要內容如下“第一章為緒論；第二章為相關文獻回顧；第三章從地方政府文化局的組織架構、國內文化政策變遷影響、以及文化創意產業中與各利害關係人間的關係等面向，探討地方政府在文化發展中的角色功能；第四章探討國內外文化創意產業的提出與發展現況；第五章就個案新竹玻璃工藝，探討新竹市地方政府在發展文化創意產業中的策略與角色；第六章結論為歸納整理出本研究之發現，提出具體的相關建言。

The countries all over the world pay more attention to the development of the creative industry，They regard the creative industry as the important key factor with progressive national economic development and social quality of the life . Taiwan is under the such a situation , The executive puts forward the plan of promoting the cultural and creative industry. Hower during the process of promoting cultural and creative industry，the public sector is playing a quite important role . Main operation subject that promote the development of cultural industry , a folk sector ，and the public sector has state power , public power and resource . Need to arrange and divide the work cooperation properly each other . How does the public sector lead and help the cultural and creative industry to be successful is the important subject . Review the glass craft industry in Hsinchu city , Hsinchu city chooses the glass craft industry as the local characteristic industry in 1991 . Glass craft industry in Hsinchu need local government make effective policy and execution it . The research methods employed in this study include literature review and in-depth interview. Analysing to the role of local government in cultural policy and culture are developed , and understand the role of local government while developing the cultural and creative industry from the case , what are the relationship between it and other organizations and the role in the whole industry development , and offering suggestions regards as consulting.