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Micro-geographies of creative industries clusters in Europe: From hot spots to assemblages
Blanca De Miguel-molinaJosé Luis Hervas-oliverRafael Boixsubject
Creative industriesStylized factEngineeringEconomybusiness.industryGeography Planning and DevelopmentSpatial ecologyEconomic geographyEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)Space (commercial competition)businessMetropolitan areadescription
The aim of this paper is to provide basic stylized facts about the spatial patterns of location and co-location of clusters of creative industries in Europe. The research proposes a novel methodology for detailing the spatial delimitation of clusters, based on a geo-statistical algorithm and firm-based micro-data. The procedure is applied to a continuous space of 16 European countries and 15 creative industries in 2009. The investigation reveals that creative firms are highly clustered, and that clusters are concentrated in a ‘creative belt’ stretching from the South of England to the South-east of Germany. These clusters are predominantly metropolitan, heterogeneous, cross borders, and may co-locate to form assemblages.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-20 | Papers in Regional Science |