Creative industries are increasingly being recognised as potential drivers of economic
growth in rural areas, and creative industries clusters are one key part of that potential …

This study aims to compare the drivers of clustering of rural and urban creative industries in
England. We use pre‐pandemic web‐scraped data from 154,618 creative industry …

Executive summary The geography of employment in contemporary creative industries is
marked by two apparently contradictory trends. The first is the tendency to cluster; a large …

Executive summary This report introduces a new experimental approach to understanding
the clustering of UK creative industries businesses. By using data from the websites of …

This latest report from NESTA's commissioned research series on creative clusters deals
with the geography of innovation as displayed by a spatial analysis of selected creative …

By driving innovation, creative industries can underpin economic development. Much
research and policy attention has centred on the geographic clustering of creative industries …

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 …

This paper develops an ethnographic study of a small rural based 'creative cluster', called
Krowji, situated in the town of Redruth in West Cornwall, UK. The dominant geographies of …

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the creative sector was vibrant. It accounted for 5.8% of
total UK GVA, employed 1.9 million people directly with a further 1.1 million creatives …

What is special about the geography of creative industries clusters? This paper considers
the influence of the symbolic knowledge-base of such clusters, and also the preference for …