This unique book focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity and innovation process within regions in the knowled

Creative and cultural industries, broadly defined, are now considered by many policy makers across Europe at the heart of their national innovation and economic

Analyses the economic development of cities from the 'cultural economy' and 'creative industry' perspectives.

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, planne

In recent years, there has been high level of interest amongst policy-makers in the ‘creative city’ concept, due to the anticipation of economic and social