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Why do creative industries cluster? An analysis of the determinants of clustering of creative industries

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Luciana Lazzeretti () (Department of Bussines Economics, University of Florence)
Rafael Boix () (Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona)
Francesco Capone () (Department of Bussines Economics, University of Florence)

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Creative industries tend to concentrate mainly around large- and medium-sized cities, forming creative local production systems. The text analyses the forces behind clustering of creative industries to provide the first empirical explanation of the determinants of creative employment clustering following a multidisciplinary approach based on cultural and creative economics, evolutionary geography and urban economics. A comparative analysis has been performed for Italy and Spain. The results show different patterns of creative employment clustering in both countries. The small role of historical and cultural endowments, the size of the place, the average size of creative industries, the productive diversity and the concentration of human capital and creative class have been found as common factors of clustering in both countries.

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Paper provided by Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona in its series IERMB Working Paper in economics with number 0902.

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Keywords: creative industries; creative local production systems; creative clusters; agglomeration economies;

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L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
R12 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media

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