Throughout East Asia, the growth process and its sources are changing in a number of important respects, especially for middle and higher income economies. Growth will increasingly come from the strength of innovative activities in these economies instead of factor accumulation as in the past. Recent research suggests that such innovative activities, especially in producer services and the crea...

All work of culture industries, in some way or the other is preoccupied with claims to authenticity. This insight comes from the recent work of the sociologist Richard A. Peterson that has been inspired by Hobsbawm and Ranger’s (1983) landmark volume on ‘invented tradition’. While much of Peterson’s earlier work focuses on the organization and production of popular music (for a review, see Pete...

The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the product involvement and multi-dimensions evaluation for innovative and cultural creativity products of the remote districts in Taiwan. A total of 120 subjects divided into two groups (including local group and non-local group) participated in the investigation. In order to achieve the research objective, revised Personal Involvement Inventory des...