This paper explores whether the dominance of leading creative centres can be explained by
two-sided markets. It is proposed that two-sided networks contribute to a high level of …

The motion picture industry is one pillar of the so-called “cultural industries” which are highly
concentrated in large urban agglomerations. Personal connections to the various informal …

This chapter looks at the tension between creativity, forms of art and business by looking at
how film making has been transformed in mass entertainment by Hollywood's studios. Film …

Interest in the creative industries has burgeoned in recent years. They convey many positive
images for the development of cities and regions in an increasingly market-driven …

Studies on the spatial organisation of so-called creative industries have exploded the last
decade. This has resulted in an impressive amount of research on the clustering of creative …

This paper argues the need to rethink the dominant theory on the spatial organization of
creative industries. According to this theory, creative industries tend to locate in the largest …

This chapter deals with the example of the motion picture industry. It demonstrates the major
significance of a powerful global distribution system for the development and continued …

The paper presents a picture of the spatial location of the US videogames industry as a
broad range of clusters of different sizes, none of them dominant, then uses a variety of …

The nature and organisation of creative industries and the creative economy has received
increased attention in recent academic and policy literatures (Florida 2002; Grabher 2002; …

The creative economy is a holistic and multidisciplinary concept that deals with the
interaction between economics, culture and technology, and centred on the production of …