A 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

Contents:

1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to Creative Economies 1
Roberta Comunian, Alessandra Faggian, Jarna Heinonen
and Nick Wilson

PART I CREATIVE ECONOMIES: CHALLENGING
DEFINITIONS AND EXPLORING NEW METHODS
2 Modular solutions and creative coding: the success of the
creative and cultural industries in Australia 21
Scott Brook
3 On GIS and the creative economy: opportunities and challenges 36
Manfredi de Bernard, Roberta Comunian and Federica Viganò
4 Using social network analysis to understand the creative
and cultural industries 55
Jon Swords
5 Measuring creative and cultural industries: the statistics
job from taxonomies to composite indices 77
Alessandro Crociata and Chiara Burlina

PART II CREATIVE ECONOMIES AND
ENTREPRENEURSHIP: RE-THINKING
INCLUSIVITY AND BUSINESS MODELS
6 Experiences of belonging to the creative economy:
narratives from northern micro-entrepreneurs 92
Lenita Nieminen and Arja Lemmetyinen
7 Cultural entrepreneurship: ethnicity and migrant communities 109
Annette Naudin
8 Creative entrepreneurship in 2022 and beyond: some
implications for higher education 125
Ruth Bridgstock

PART III CREATIVE ECONOMIES: FOCUS ON
NETWORKS, PLACE AND MOBILITIES
9 This must be the place: creative workers’ evaluations of
cities as enabling contexts for work 147
Lorenzo Mizzau, Fabrizio Montanari, Damiano Razzoli
and Stefano Rodighiero
10 Crafting professionals: exploring the spatial and social
mediation of professional networks in craft higher education 164
Lauren England
11 Emerging spatial relations of artists and art scenes through
the lens of art schools in Manchester and Leipzig 181
Silvie Jacobi
12 Exploring contemporary visual arts careers in Italy:
education, mobility and project work 194
Jessica Tanghetti

PART IV CREATIVE ECONOMIES RE-IMAGINED
13 Re-futuring creative economies: beyond bad dreams and
the banal imagination 216
Mark Banks
14 Growth of what? New narratives for the creative economy,
beyond GDP 228
Jonathan Gross
15 Inclusive solidarity: emerging forms of resistance within
the UK creative economy 249
Tamsyn Dent
16 What is the creative economy – really? 269
Nick Wilson

Index 286