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...

extended abstract 1. introduction knowledge-based cultural industries are among new economic opportunities for all countries in the 21st century. cultural industries are parts of economics of new knowledge. governments promote measures that lead to the support and development of cultural industries. creative industries have 13 subsets and handicraft is one of them. this article investigates the...

The paper describes and explains empirically the economic performance of four key creative industries (the book publishing, music sound recording, film production and software industries) in five Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon). Using the Porter (Diamond) model as its theoretical background, a survey was conducted in the years 2002-03 among 242 experts, covering fir...

According to the literature, university-industry collaborations are far from straightforward. This paper adds to this work by looking at how the process of collaboration has fared between higher education institutions (HEIs) and small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the creative and cultural industries (CCI). It does this by looking at the preliminary findings of Creativeworks Lon...

The creative industries have long been seen as an innovative sector. More recent research posits that creative occupations are also a fundamental, but overlooked, driver of innovation. Theory also suggests cities are important for both creative industries and occupations, with urban environments helping firms innovate. Yet little empirical work has considered the links between creative industri...