IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/growch/v49y2018i4p677-695.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Creative industries agglomeration and industrial efficiency in China

Author

Listed:
  • Wentao Yu

Abstract

In this paper, we seek to explore the agglomeration externalities of creative industries impacting on industrial efficiency, both at the regional level and at the sector level. Firstly, we apply a data envelopment analysis model to compute the efficiency scores of creative industries in China. The result shows that China's industrial efficiency whether in different provinces or different creative sectors is characterized by huge disparities. Secondly, using the data from China's 31 provinces and 50 creative sectors during the period of 2004–2014, we empirically explore whether and how the development of creative industries agglomeration impact on industrial efficiency, where the agglomeration is distinguished between regional specialization, geographical concentration, and industrial concentration. We find that the three types of agglomeration externalities all play important roles in increasing productive efficiency in creative industries. The study also confirms that industrial efficiency is more likely to be increased by attracting much smaller firms concentrating in a given area, while this effect is mixed in a given creative sector.

Suggested Citation

  • Wentao Yu, 2018. "Creative industries agglomeration and industrial efficiency in China," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(4), pages 677-695, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:growch:v:49:y:2018:i:4:p:677-695
    DOI: 10.1111/grow.12255
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12255
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/grow.12255?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Yuan, Huaxi & Feng, Yidai & Lee, Chien-Chiang & Cen, Yan, 2020. "How does manufacturing agglomeration affect green economic efficiency?," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    2. Peng, Dan & Li, Rongrong & Shen, Chenrong & Wong, Zoey, 2022. "Industrial agglomeration, urban characteristics, and economic growth quality: The case of knowledge-intensive business services," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 18-28.
    3. Simon X. B. Zhao & David W. H. Wong & David W. S. Wong & Y. P. Jiang, 2020. "Ever‐transient FDI and ever‐polarizing regional development: Revisiting conventional theories of regional development in the context of China, Southeast and South Asia," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(1), pages 338-361, March.
    4. Chun‐Yu Ho & Yue Sheng, 2022. "Productivity advantage of large cities for creative industries," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 101(6), pages 1289-1306, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:growch:v:49:y:2018:i:4:p:677-695. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0017-4815 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.