Genres organize and facilitate cultural, creative media production consumption but are rarely central categories in extant research on industries. With this editorial article, we aim to reassert, reassess revisit the salience of genres for understanding inequalities cultural We argue that genres, as classificatory devices, structure order a gendered racialized division labour occupational pract...

This paper explores the economic and cultural contribution of the arts and its effect on economic growth and evolution. The crucial connection is supplied by an innovation systems perspective on the creative industries. In this view, the creative industries contribute not just to value-added and jobs, but more importantly, to the evolutionary process by which economic systems grow. This paper t...

This paper adopts the industrial capabilities argument and the concept of revealed comparative advantage as the basis for evaluating the competitiveness of the UK creative industries in sustaining export growth. The empirical results have revealed a heterogeneous nature of the economic linkages and comparative advantage positions within the UK creative sector. There is also evidence to support ...

Abstract The authors compared the geographical distribution of creative clusters in Poland with spatial LQ (Location Quotient) measuring concentration entities a given area. study aimed to answer following questions: what is clustering potential for industries?, which municipalities are home forming clusters?, and, above all, actually formed areas offering greatest this respect? In order find a...