Why do creative industries cluster? An analysis of the determinants of clustering of creative industries (W.P. in Economics 09.02)
ABRIL 2009
- Luciana Lazzeretti
Department of Business Economics, University of Florence Via delle pandette, 9, 50127 – Firenze. Email: luciana.lazzeretti@unifi.it
- Rafael Boix
Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona Parc de Recerca Modul A, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona (Spain) Email: rafael.boix@uab.es
- Francesco Capone
Department of Business Economics, University of Florence Via delle pandette, 9, 50127 – Firenze. Email: Francesco.capone@unifi.it
Creative industries tend to concentrate mainly around large- and medium-sized cities, forming creative local production systems. The text analyses the forces behind clustering of creative industries to provide the first empirical explanation of the determinants of creative employment clustering following a multidisciplinary approach based on cultural and creative economics, evolutionary geography and urban economics. A comparative analysis has been performed for Italy and Spain. The results show different patterns of creative employment clustering in both countries. The small role of historical and cultural endowments, the size of the place, the average size of creative industries, the productive diversity and the concentration of human capital and creative class have been found as common factors of clustering in both countries.
