Overview

Creative and cultural industries, broadly defined, are now considered by many policy makers across Europe at the heart of their national innovation and economic development agenda. Similarly, many European cities and regions have adopted policies to support and develop these industries and their local support infrastructures. However this policy-making agenda implicitly incorporates (and indeed often conflates) elements of cultural and creative industries, the creative class and so on, which are typically employed without due consideration of context. Thus a better understanding is required. To this end, this book features eight research papers, split evenly with regard to geographical focus between the UK and continental Europe (the latter covering Spain, Germany, France, Luxemburg and Belgium individually and in combination). There is also a similar division in terms of those focusing primarily on the policy level (the chapters of Clifton and Macaulay, Mould and Comunian, Pareja-Eastaway and Pradel i Miquel, Perrin) and those of the individual creative actor (the chapters of Alfken et al, Bennett et al, Wedemeier and Brown). This book was previously published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

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Author:   Nick Clifton (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Caroline Chapain (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Roberta Comunian (King's College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9781138392496

ISBN 10:   1138392499
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   18 October 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"1. Creative Regions in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities for Policy 2. Home from Home? Locational Choices of International ""Creative Class"" Workers 3. Hung, Drawn and Cultural Quartered: Rethinking Cultural Quarter Development Policy in the UK 4. Creativity, Cohesion and the ‘Post-conflict’ Society: A Policy Agenda (Illustrated from the Case of Northern Ireland) 5. Living Hand to Mouth: Why the Bohemian Lifestyle Does Not Lead to Wealth Creation in Peripheral Regions? 6. Towards the Creative and Knowledge Economies: Analysing Diverse Pathways in Spanish Cities 7.Creative Regions on a European Cross-Border Scale: Policy Issues and Development Perspectives 8. Factors Explaining the Spatial Agglomeration of the Creative Class: Empirical Evidence for German Artists 9. Creative Professionals, Local Amenities and Externalities: Do Regional Concentrations of Creative Professionals Reinforce Themselves Over Time?"

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Nick Clifton is Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Development at Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. His main research interests lie in the fields of regional economics, small business and entrepreneurship, networks, business strategy, innovation and creativity. In particular, he is interested in how firms use networks to acquire knowledge and innovate, and the factors that influence the location choices of creative individuals. Roberta Comunian is a lecturer in Economic Development, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Her main research interests concern the relationship between public and private investments in the arts, art and cultural regeneration projects, cultural and creative industries, creativity and competitiveness. She has also undertaken research on the role of higher education in the creative economy and the career opportunities and patterns of creative graduates in UK. Caroline Chapain is a lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London, London, UK. Her main research interests include creativity, innovation, creative industries, local and regional economic development and public policies. Recently, she has been doing increasing research looking at the links between the economic, cultural and social objectives sustaining creative practices and the role of new media.

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