Creative industries & creative policies: A European perspective?

Exploring implicit and explicit cultural policy dimensions through major-event and neoliberal rhetoric

“…The revised pandemic strategy seemed to focus on cultural districtualization processes (Lazzeretti, 2008) and clustering the culture and creative industries (Pratt, 2021;Vivant & Morteau, 2020), which is a well-tested strategy of the creative city, with imprecise outcomes (Comunian, Chapain, & Clifton, 2014). The Rikard Benčić complex was converted from an administrative building of an old tobacco factory into Rijeka's new cultural district (constituted by the Rijeka Civic Library, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka Civic Museum, and Children's House).…”

Coworking Spaces as a Driver of the Post-Fordist City: a Tool for Building a Creative Ecosystem

“…Nevertheless, the physical proximity and coexistence could be summarised as the first stage of developing collaborative spaces. More importantly, they denote the idea of collaboration that is unique and essential for the creative economy in terms of the crossover of an innovation that utilises technologies and techniques from other related industries (Cooke, 2018). Hence, managers of coworking spaces face challenges of developing human capital in order to achieve sustainability and viability in the long run.…”

“…This eventually corresponds to the process of cultural and creative education with the involvement of users/customers in the process of creation. Involvement of various agents create a favourable environment for crossover innovation that comprises both internal and external features (Cooke, 2018). Moreover, favourable an innovative and entrepreneurial environment nurtures economic growth with pre-conditions corresponding to creativity and interaction in time and place (Copercini, 2016;Farina et al ., 2018).…”

Creativity, Cohesion and the ‘Post-conflict’ Society: A Policy Agenda (Illustrated from the Case of Northern Ireland)

“…Northern Ireland clearly faces particular challenges here, which have largely been ignored within the neo-liberal consensus-or more to the point assumed to be solvable by economic success itself. However, there is increasing evidence that for realising creativity context matters (Boschma & Frisch, 2009;Clifton et al, 2013;Comunian et al, 2014;Martin-Brelot, Grossetti, M., Eckert, D., Gritsai, O., & Kovács, 2010) and that society and business are deeply intertwined at the cultural level . Moreover, the policy climate plays an important role in the degree to which creativity is successfully translated (or not) into economic outcomes at the local level (Huggins & Clifton, 2011).…”