Handbook of Creative Regions

Edited by Rafael Boix-Domènech, Professor of Economic Structure, Department of Economic Structure, University of Valencia, Spain and Luciana Lazzeretti, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Management, Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence, Italy

‘By analysing the genesis of a large variety of concepts at the cross yard of creativity and space – such as city-regions, creative metropolitan areas, creative digital ecosystems – the book provides a rich collection of chapters dealing with the positive and negative side of creativity in space. The book delves into new interesting topics like the rise of creative regions in BRIC countries and the AI-powered creativity.’

• Contents1 Introduction: creative regions in the 21st century 1Rafael Boix-Domènech and Luciana Lazzeretti2 In search of the creative grail: methodological issues to understand whatcreativity is, how to measure it and how to use it in policy strategies forcreative regions 22Pau Rausell-Köster3 A worldwide geography of creative regions 43Rafael Boix4 Creative regions in the European Union 70Andrea Gallelli5 Creative regions in China: trends and issues 90Qianni Feng, Chuan Li and Jing Wang6 Creative ties: the global network of local innovation 111Ernest Miguelez, Julio Raffo, Christian Chacua, Massimiliano Coda-Zabetta, Deyun Yin, Francesco Lissoni and Gianluca Tarasconi7 Creative megaregions in the world 143Vittorio Galletto, Joan Marull López, Joan Trullén Thomas and RafaelBoix-Domènech8 Creative Industries mapping via creative intensity perspective: the case ofBrazil 158Leandro Valiati, Gustavo Möller and Camila Cauzzi9 The economic effect of CCIs: in search of global creative regions 173Fernando Álvarez-Teresa10 The role of cultural and creative industries in promoting regional well-being 195Jordi Sanjuán11 Exploring artificial intelligence in creative regions:. a literature review 213Luciana Lazzeretti, Stefania Oliva and Niccolò Innocenti12 Path dependence and creative industries 229Jue Peng and Robert Hassink13 The transition of a territorial to a digital-based ecosystem driven bycreativity: Florianópolis – from magic island to silicon island 247Dinorá Eliete Floriani Beatrice Ma Zanellato Fonseca Mayer andSilvio Luis de Vasconcellos14 Defining different contexts for women entrepreneurs in creative and high-tech sectors of high-income countries 268Blanca de-Miguel-Molina and María de-Miguel-Molina15 Questionable relations: on financial violator ‘assemblages’ in the globaleconomy 290Philip Cooke16 Creative regions in digital worlds: an empirical analysis of creative designin video games creation 306Alessandro Muscio and Michele Rinaldi17 Leveraging technological change to renew creative regions: the case ofMontreal 322Etienne Capron, Patrick Cohendet and Laurent Simon18 The creative region of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona 336Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod, Eva Coll-Martínez, Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway19 Creative clusters and sparse spaces: Manchester’s creative industries andthe geographies of deprivation and prosperity 360Bruce S. Tether20 The promotion of audiovisual creation in Latin America 400Alejandra Luzardo21 Do not frighten the creatives: mass shootings and employment in the arts,entertainment and recreation sector in the United States 421Carlos Gayán-Navarro and Marcos Sanso-Navarro