Abstract The recent narrative on museums as catalysts of innovation and growth considers their relations with other cultural creative industries (CCIs) to be very important. We argue that most establish CCI firms institutions are unlikely produce strong positive externalities make the latter more innovative. To prove this claim, we propose a conceptual framework qualifying project-based supply ...

Review of the book <i>"Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in Cultural and Creative Industries"</i> by Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien, Mark Taylor.

In this paper, we seek to address the challenge of online connected creativity by studying the emergence of novelty in the ‘Sensory Threads’ project, a six-month project currently underway as part of the EPSRC cluster project, http://www.creatorproject.org/, (EP/G002088/1), New Research Processes and Business Models for the Creative Industries. The cluster brings together practitioners from the...

The aim of this paper is to critically assess the notion of the creative cluster, and to consider whether it is an appropriate tool for the governance of the creative industries, or even a suitable point from which to begin an analysis of the creative industries. The paper argues that creative clusters are formally a sub-set of business clusters. A critique of the business clusters literature h...

Abstract The trend towards digitalisation and technological innovation has reshaped the cultural creative industries (CCIs) by changing existing funding models structures. aim of this article is to explore impact dimensions policies on adoption reward-based crowdfunding as a new form finance for firms in CCIs 12 different European countries during 2015–2019 period. Our results show that nationa...

The aim of this article is to examine synthetically the concept of ‘autonomy’ in cultural and creative industries work. Following brief discussion regarding the definition(s) of autonomy, and its historical linkages to discourses of art, I then rehearse three prominent social science critiques which suggest the possibilities for autonomy in cultural work have been seriously diminished or compro...