Full Description
This pioneering Handbook brings together experts from a broad array of disciplines to explore creative regions worldwide. Pairing theoretical and practical insights, it presents an integrated and multidimensional account of the creative region, addressing major issues surrounding the concept and proposing a future research agenda.
Through global analyses and case studies from both developing and developed regions, this Handbook studies the origins of the concept of creative regions in scientific literature and policymaking, shedding light on the global geographies of creativity from metropolitan regions to the rural-urban divide. It also examines the positive and adverse effects of creativity on the well-being and the economy of regions, as well as the technological and social dimensions of creative geographies, including the role of artificial intelligence.
This Handbook is an essential resource for scholars of regional economics and regional studies, economic geography and cultural economics. It also provides insightful strategies for regional policymakers, urban planners, economic developers and cultural and creative managers.
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction: creative regions in the 21st century 1
Rafael Boix-Domènech and Luciana Lazzeretti
2 In search of the creative grail: methodological issues to understand what
creativity is, how to measure it and how to use it in policy strategies for
creative regions 22
Pau Rausell-Köster
3 A worldwide geography of creative regions 43
Rafael Boix
4 Creative regions in the European Union 70
Andrea Gallelli
5 Creative regions in China: trends and issues 90
Qianni Feng, Chuan Li and Jing Wang
6 Creative ties: the global network of local innovation 111
Ernest Miguelez, Julio Raffo, Christian Chacua, Massimiliano Coda-
Zabetta, Deyun Yin, Francesco Lissoni and Gianluca Tarasconi
7 Creative megaregions in the world 143
Vittorio Galletto, Joan Marull López, Joan Trullén Thomas and Rafael
Boix-Domènech
8 Creative Industries mapping via creative intensity perspective: the case of
Brazil 158
Leandro Valiati, Gustavo Möller and Camila Cauzzi
9 The economic effect of CCIs: in search of global creative regions 173
Fernando Álvarez-Teresa
10 The role of cultural and creative industries in promoting regional well-
being 195
Jordi Sanjuán
11 Exploring artificial intelligence in creative regions:. a literature review 213
Luciana Lazzeretti, Stefania Oliva and Niccolò Innocenti
12 Path dependence and creative industries 229
Jue Peng and Robert Hassink
13 The transition of a territorial to a digital-based ecosystem driven by
creativity: Florianópolis - from magic island to silicon island 247
Dinorá Eliete Floriani Beatrice Ma Zanellato Fonseca Mayer and
Silvio Luis de Vasconcellos
14 Defining different contexts for women entrepreneurs in creative and high-
tech sectors of high-income countries 268
Blanca de-Miguel-Molina and María de-Miguel-Molina
15 Questionable relations: on financial violator 'assemblages' in the global
economy 290
Philip Cooke
16 Creative regions in digital worlds: an empirical analysis of creative design
in video games creation 306
Alessandro Muscio and Michele Rinaldi
17 Leveraging technological change to renew creative regions: the case of
Montreal 322
Etienne Capron, Patrick Cohendet and Laurent Simon
18 The creative region of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona 336
Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod, Eva Coll-Martínez, Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway
19 Creative clusters and sparse spaces: Manchester's creative industries and
the geographies of deprivation and prosperity 360
Bruce S. Tether
20 The promotion of audiovisual creation in Latin America 400
Alejandra Luzardo
21 Do not frighten the creatives: mass shootings and employment in the arts,
entertainment and recreation sector in the United States 421
Carlos Gayán-Navarro and Marcos Sanso-Navarro
