CALL FOR PAPERS:
RGS-IBG Annual Conference London 28-30th Aug 2013
Session Title: Creative industries, creative jobs and creative clusters: An evolutionary perspective
Organisers:
Su-Hyun Berg (Dept. of Geography, University of Kiel, Germany)
Roberta Comunian (Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London)
Robert Hassink (Dept. of Geography, University of Kiel, Germany)
Call for abstracts
During the last decades an increasing interest can be observed among urban and economic geographers in creative industries, the creative economy, creative cities, as well as the creative class (Chapain et al. 2012). In addition to this increasing academic interest, testified by several recent special issues in journals such as Urban Studies, the Journal of Economic Geography, Regional Studies and the Creative Industries Journal, also policy-makers at several spatial levels (urban, regional, national, as well as supranational) try to find ways how to foster creative industries. Many studies focused both on the economic functions of creative industries, mainly in terms of employment, value-added production, and exports, as well as on their current organizational features. However, evolutionary and history-informed perspectives are often neglected (Rantisi et al., 2006), as well as explaining differences in dynamics between different creative industries in a regional context. Why is it that some creative industries grow fast in some regions while stagnate in other regions?
The aim of this session is therefore to shed a more evolutionary and dynamic light on creative industries in a local and regional context. In a similar vein as Comunian (2011) recently used complexity theory and complex adaptive systems to explain the development of creative industries in the North East of England, this session particularly welcomes abstracts linking theories used in other fields to shed a new, more dynamic light on creative industries. One potentially fruitful paradigm to draw on, in this context, is evolutionary economic geography (Boschma & Frenken 2011). In contrast to neoclassical theory, this school takes history and geography seriously by recognizing the importance of place-specific elements and processes to explain broader spatial patterns of technology evolution. In this session, therefore, we would like to explore whether notions of evolutionary economic geography, such as path creation, path dependence and co-evolution, can contribute to analyzing and explaining the spatial dynamics of creative industries.
We welcome both empirical, theoretical, as well as policy-related abstracts. The focus can be on any creative industries, such as publishing and literature, performing arts, music, film, video and photography, broadcasting, design, fashion, visual arts, advertising and interactive media as well as creative jobs. We also welcome abstracts that go beyond the narrow focus of creative clusters, namely those dealing with creative cities, the creative economy, as well as creative class in relation to creative industries.
Potential questions include:
How do creative industries in cities and regions develop through time?
How can we explain differences in dynamics between creative industries in a regional economy?
What is the impact of policies at several spatial levels on the dynamics of creative industries and jobs?
How can individual talents be fosted in the creative industries?
How can firms in creative clusters be fostered?
How does the national institutional context affect the development of creative industries in cities and regions through?
References
Chapain, C., Clifton, N., & Comunian, R. (2012) Understanding Creative Regions: Bridging the Gap between Global Discourses and Regional and National Contexts. Regional Studies, (ahead-of-print), 1-4.
Comunian, R. (2011) Rethinking the Creative City The Role of Complexity, Networks and Interactions in the Urban Creative Economy. Urban Studies, 48(6), 1157-1179.
Boschma, R., & Frenken, K. (2011). The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography. Journal of Economic Geography, 11(2), 295-307.
Rantisi N M, Leslie D, Christopherson S (2006) Placing the creative economy: scale, politics, and the material. Environment and Planning A 38(10) 1789 – 1797
Abstract Submission:
If you would like to contribute to this session, please send your abstract of not more than 250 words to Su-Hyun Berg (berg@geographie.uni-kiel.de) by Friday, 8th February 2013.
Organisers:
Su-Hyun Berg (Dept. of Geography, University of Kiel, Germany)
Roberta Comunian (Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London)
Robert Hassink (Dept. of Geography, University of Kiel, Germany)
Call for abstracts
During the last decades an increasing interest can be observed among urban and economic geographers in creative industries, the creative economy, creative cities, as well as the creative class (Chapain et al. 2012). In addition to this increasing academic interest, testified by several recent special issues in journals such as Urban Studies, the Journal of Economic Geography, Regional Studies and the Creative Industries Journal, also policy-makers at several spatial levels (urban, regional, national, as well as supranational) try to find ways how to foster creative industries. Many studies focused both on the economic functions of creative industries, mainly in terms of employment, value-added production, and exports, as well as on their current organizational features. However, evolutionary and history-informed perspectives are often neglected (Rantisi et al., 2006), as well as explaining differences in dynamics between different creative industries in a regional context. Why is it that some creative industries grow fast in some regions while stagnate in other regions?
The aim of this session is therefore to shed a more evolutionary and dynamic light on creative industries in a local and regional context. In a similar vein as Comunian (2011) recently used complexity theory and complex adaptive systems to explain the development of creative industries in the North East of England, this session particularly welcomes abstracts linking theories used in other fields to shed a new, more dynamic light on creative industries. One potentially fruitful paradigm to draw on, in this context, is evolutionary economic geography (Boschma & Frenken 2011). In contrast to neoclassical theory, this school takes history and geography seriously by recognizing the importance of place-specific elements and processes to explain broader spatial patterns of technology evolution. In this session, therefore, we would like to explore whether notions of evolutionary economic geography, such as path creation, path dependence and co-evolution, can contribute to analyzing and explaining the spatial dynamics of creative industries.
We welcome both empirical, theoretical, as well as policy-related abstracts. The focus can be on any creative industries, such as publishing and literature, performing arts, music, film, video and photography, broadcasting, design, fashion, visual arts, advertising and interactive media as well as creative jobs. We also welcome abstracts that go beyond the narrow focus of creative clusters, namely those dealing with creative cities, the creative economy, as well as creative class in relation to creative industries.
Potential questions include:
How do creative industries in cities and regions develop through time?
How can we explain differences in dynamics between creative industries in a regional economy?
What is the impact of policies at several spatial levels on the dynamics of creative industries and jobs?
How can individual talents be fosted in the creative industries?
How can firms in creative clusters be fostered?
How does the national institutional context affect the development of creative industries in cities and regions through?
References
Chapain, C., Clifton, N., & Comunian, R. (2012) Understanding Creative Regions: Bridging the Gap between Global Discourses and Regional and National Contexts. Regional Studies, (ahead-of-print), 1-4.
Comunian, R. (2011) Rethinking the Creative City The Role of Complexity, Networks and Interactions in the Urban Creative Economy. Urban Studies, 48(6), 1157-1179.
Boschma, R., & Frenken, K. (2011). The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography. Journal of Economic Geography, 11(2), 295-307.
Rantisi N M, Leslie D, Christopherson S (2006) Placing the creative economy: scale, politics, and the material. Environment and Planning A 38(10) 1789 – 1797
Abstract Submission:
If you would like to contribute to this session, please send your abstract of not more than 250 words to Su-Hyun Berg (berg@geographie.uni-kiel.de) by Friday, 8th February 2013.
CALL FOR PAPERS
As many of you will be aware, our series of 3 seminars arising from the Regional Studies Association Research Network on Creative Regions in Europe recently concluded in Copenhagen last month, previous events having taken place in Barcelona and Poznan.
As discussed at the time, we are planning a special issue of a leading international journal as a follow on from this – both for papers presented during the actual events or for other relevant high quality work as yet unpublished emerging from the group. This will broadly themed around ‘Creative Regions in Europe: challenges and opportunities’, with preliminary discussions having taken place with European Urban and Regional Studies as the preferred outlet for this. Contributions are thus invited around the general themes of
· the relationship between creative workers and creative cities
· creative economies in different geographical contexts in Europe
· what role do concentrations of creative and cultural industries play at different geographical scales and contexts?
· how can local and regional policies and policy frameworks play a role for creative regions? Of particular interest are best practices/lessons emerging in different European contexts.
The proposed time scale for this is then as follows
· Expression of interest through abstracts (500 words) to Nick Clifton nclifton@cardiffmet.ac.uk by 1st July 2012
· Submission of selected full papers to Special Issue organisers: 31st October 2012
· Final papers to be formally submitted to the journal for the blind review process: November 2012
· Publication: planned for Spring 2014
As discussed at the time, we are planning a special issue of a leading international journal as a follow on from this – both for papers presented during the actual events or for other relevant high quality work as yet unpublished emerging from the group. This will broadly themed around ‘Creative Regions in Europe: challenges and opportunities’, with preliminary discussions having taken place with European Urban and Regional Studies as the preferred outlet for this. Contributions are thus invited around the general themes of
· the relationship between creative workers and creative cities
· creative economies in different geographical contexts in Europe
· what role do concentrations of creative and cultural industries play at different geographical scales and contexts?
· how can local and regional policies and policy frameworks play a role for creative regions? Of particular interest are best practices/lessons emerging in different European contexts.
The proposed time scale for this is then as follows
· Expression of interest through abstracts (500 words) to Nick Clifton nclifton@cardiffmet.ac.uk by 1st July 2012
· Submission of selected full papers to Special Issue organisers: 31st October 2012
· Final papers to be formally submitted to the journal for the blind review process: November 2012
· Publication: planned for Spring 2014
Save these dates ...
The third (and final) seminar of the Regional Studies Association Research Network Creative Industries in Europe will be held on the 18th and 19th of April 2012 and will be hosted by our colleagues Høgni Kalsø Hansen and Lars Winther, at the University of Copenhagen (in Copenhagen, Denmark). We will circulate a call for papers before the Christmas break and hope you will be able to join us in Copenhagen.
The next year Creative Regions Summer School will be held in Cardiff and organised by Dr Nick Clifton (Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University) and will take place between the 2nd and 6th of July 2012. We will circulate more information about registering and attending the summer school before Christmas, but if you want to find out more visit the website www.creative-regions.org.uk and see what happened in the last year summer school.
The next year Creative Regions Summer School will be held in Cardiff and organised by Dr Nick Clifton (Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University) and will take place between the 2nd and 6th of July 2012. We will circulate more information about registering and attending the summer school before Christmas, but if you want to find out more visit the website www.creative-regions.org.uk and see what happened in the last year summer school.
Outcomes Second Research Seminar available online
The Second Research Seminar: Creative industries in the periphery Creative regions in Central and Eastern Europe: challenges and opportunities
was held on the 21st –22nd September 2011 at the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznao, Poland.
You can download many of the presentations and papers presented from our websites. If you want to quote or reference these presentations or papers, please get in touch with each author / presenter.
Outcomes are available here
NEW 'Hanbook of Creative Cities' out now...
With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by
Richard Florida in 2002, the ‘creative city’ became the
new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and
economists. Florida has developed one of three pathbreaking
theories about the relationship between creative
individuals and urban environments. The economist Åke
E. Andersson and the psychologist Dean Simonton are the
other members of this ‘creative troika’. In the Handbook of
Creative Cities, Florida, Andersson and Simonton appear in
the same volume for the first time. The expert contributors
in this timely Handbook extend their insights with a varied
set of theoretical and empirical tools. The diversity of the
contributions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of creative
city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics,
economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology,
and urban planning. The stated policy implications are equally diverse, ranging from
libertarian to social democratic visions of our shared creative and urban future.
Download the flyer with the list of chapters and contributors here
Richard Florida in 2002, the ‘creative city’ became the
new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and
economists. Florida has developed one of three pathbreaking
theories about the relationship between creative
individuals and urban environments. The economist Åke
E. Andersson and the psychologist Dean Simonton are the
other members of this ‘creative troika’. In the Handbook of
Creative Cities, Florida, Andersson and Simonton appear in
the same volume for the first time. The expert contributors
in this timely Handbook extend their insights with a varied
set of theoretical and empirical tools. The diversity of the
contributions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of creative
city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics,
economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology,
and urban planning. The stated policy implications are equally diverse, ranging from
libertarian to social democratic visions of our shared creative and urban future.
Download the flyer with the list of chapters and contributors here
New Special Edition on the Creative Economy
A special edition of the Review on Design, Innovation and Strategic Management was published in August (V. 2, N. 2 (2011): Special Edition: Creative Economy). With articles in English and Portoguese. Many contributors took part in our previous seminar in Barcelona have contributed to this special edition. Well-done all! Articles are available to download here http://www.cetiqt.senai.br/redige/
The Creative Regions in Europe Research Network is supported by the Regional Studies Association
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