Modern Guide to Creative Economies

Edited by Roberta Comunian, King’s College London, UK, Alessandra Faggian, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy, Jarna Heinonen, Professor of Entrepreneurship, School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland and Nick Wilson, King’s College London, UK

‘For the past two decades, governments, academics, and industry groups have celebrated, measured, and advocated for the creative economy and its accelerated growth. Largely thought of as the production and consumption of creative goods across multiple sectors and geographies, the creative economy is actually much more – it is the sum total of our expressive lives – how we create and share human expression – which is both critical and complex and subject to policy, market forces, networks, professional practice, and community-based values. A Modern Guide to Creative Economies is essential reading for considering and reflecting on how we build healthy, equitable, and sustainable conditions for the creation, celebration, and exchange of human expression. The book, and its collection of brilliant essays, offers fresh insight that will inspire scholars, students, and leaders in arts and culture to ask new and different questions and ultimately to imagine possibilities for not just growing our creative economies, but also for sustaining the humans who are critical for creative expression to thrive.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to Creative Economies 1Roberta Comunian, Alessandra Faggian, Jarna Heinonenand Nick WilsonPART I CREATIVE ECONOMIES: CHALLENGINGDEFINITIONS AND EXPLORING NEW METHODS2 Modular solutions and creative coding: the success of thecreative and cultural industries in Australia 21Scott Brook3 On GIS and the creative economy: opportunities and challenges 36Manfredi de Bernard, Roberta Comunian and Federica Viganò4 Using social network analysis to understand the creativeand cultural industries 55Jon Swords5 Measuring creative and cultural industries: the statisticsjob from taxonomies to composite indices 77Alessandro Crociata and Chiara BurlinaPART II CREATIVE ECONOMIES ANDENTREPRENEURSHIP: RE-THINKINGINCLUSIVITY AND BUSINESS MODELS6 Experiences of belonging to the creative economy:narratives from northern micro-entrepreneurs 92Lenita Nieminen and Arja Lemmetyinen7 Cultural entrepreneurship: ethnicity and migrant communities 109Annette Naudin8 Creative entrepreneurship in 2022 and beyond: someimplications for higher education 125Ruth BridgstockPART III CREATIVE ECONOMIES: FOCUS ONNETWORKS, PLACE AND MOBILITIES9 This must be the place: creative workers’ evaluations ofcities as enabling contexts for work 147Lorenzo Mizzau, Fabrizio Montanari, Damiano Razzoliand Stefano Rodighiero10 Crafting professionals: exploring the spatial and socialmediation of professional networks in craft higher education 164Lauren England11 Emerging spatial relations of artists and art scenes throughthe lens of art schools in Manchester and Leipzig 181Silvie Jacobi12 Exploring contemporary visual arts careers in Italy:education, mobility and project work 194Jessica TanghettiPART IV CREATIVE ECONOMIES RE-IMAGINED13 Re-futuring creative economies: beyond bad dreams andthe banal imagination 216Mark Banks14 Growth of what? New narratives for the creative economy,beyond GDP 228Jonathan Gross15 Inclusive solidarity: emerging forms of resistance withinthe UK creative economy 249Tamsyn Dent16 What is the creative economy – really? 269Nick WilsonIndex 286