Notwithstanding the wide research on clusters and industrial districts, most of the preceding
contributions tried to analyse and investigate past research and rarely tried to critique or …

This Element provides an overview of cultural entrepreneurship scholarship and seeks to lay
the foundation for a broader and more integrative research agenda at the interface of …

Hesmondhalgh has done it again! The third edition of The Cultural Industries is a tour-de-
force. At once brilliant and accessible, it is without peer when it comes to detailing the big …

Cultural industries–systems of organizations that produce and distribute cultural goods with
substantive symbolic, aesthetic, or artistic value–represent an important, exciting, and …

Innovation and entrepreneurship lie at the heart of the modern economy. Yet, while scholars
have long examined the economic drivers of innovation and entrepreneurship, less is known …

Creative industries are among the fastest-growing and most important sectors of European
and North American economies. Their growth depends on continuous innovation, which is …

This essay considers how policy thinking about culture has been steadily transformed into
an overwhelmingly economic subject matter whose central trope is the “creative economy” …

Recent research shows increasing efforts to unfold the potential of Cultural and Creative
Industries (CCIs) for regions in order to pursue new sources of innovation, competitive edge …

The business model construct has become attractive to both managers and academics. It
reflects how the most important organization's strategic and tactical choices regarding the …

Creative industries contain paradoxes because conflicting tensions arise between the
market and the arts. Entrepreneurs need to find and maintain a balance between those two …