Culture, an intellectual capital of a city, is accumulated through the intellect and wisdom of the government, citizens, businesses and other organizations. Cities regardless of their size are seeking their own distinguishing features and positions. By combining culture and creativity to improve international visibility, cities can develop new potentials, create job opportunities and boost econ...

The digital creative industries exemplify innovation processes in whichuser communities are highly involved in product and service development, bringing new ideas, and developing tools for newproduct uses and environments. We explore the role of user communities in suchco-innovation processes via four case studies of interrelations between firms and their communities. The digitization and virtu...

In 2002, ‘film’ consolidated a position within municipal governance as part of the Brisbane City Council’s economic development program based on the ‘new economy’ understanding of the role of the city as the physical location of commercial and cultural activity. This positioning of film within the notion of industry clustering, and the acknowledgment that production technologies of film and tel...

It has now been over a decade since the concept of creative in-5 dustries was first put into the public domain by the Blair Labour government's Creative Industries Mapping Documents in Britain. The concept has developed traction globally, but it has also been understood and developed in different ways in Europe, Asia, Aus-tralia, New Zealand, and North America, and also in international 10 bodi...

The present study explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth for 103 Italian provinces (NUTS 3) over the period between 2001 and 2006. Provincial growth rates are measured alternatively by value added growth and employment growth. Findings show a positive effect o...