The economic drivers of media clusters

Komorowski, Marlen; Fodor, Maté

doi:10.1386/macp_00031_1

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“…It is a single case study with a meso-level approach. Media clusters, as Komorowski (2017) and Komorowski and Fodor (2020) have documented, are different in composition and have various regional and national prerequisites. MCB is unique, and the historical and industrial specificity of the cluster must be recognized, as we have underlined in this study.…”

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“…Research on industry clusters in general and media clusters in particular finds that there are both internal and external drivers in cluster formation and growth (Komorowski & Fodor, 2020): urbanization economies, localization economies, agglomeration economies, and perception economies. In the context of MCB, the concept of "agglomeration economies" is particularly relevant, meaning closeness to similar businesses as well as competitors.…”

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Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation: From Radical to Incremental Innovation in a Cluster

Milojevic,

Larsen

2024

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During recent decades new players, forms, and practices have been entering the journalism field, prompting a re-examination of journalism’s professional and organizational boundaries. Many scholars argue for expanding the scope of journalism studies beyond the newsrooms to encompass actors labelled as strangers, peripheral players, or interlopers. Those actors do not belong to traditional journalism but are becoming involved in the production of news, challenging journalism borders from the inside and out. Their influence has been growing and scholarship is increasingly mapping out these strangers and assessing their role in journalism innovation. In this article, we examine the role of one type of implicit interloper in journalism innovation: media-tech companies. We consider companies that provide video management and virtual reality services as implicit interlopers, due to their connection to journalism through the boundary object of news production and lack of claim over journalistic authority. We argue that media-tech companies have been under-researched based on a review of literature on innovation according to Holton and Belair-Gagnon’s (2018) typology of interlopers. Therefore, we examine what kind of innovation comes from the periphery of journalism, and the prerequisites for and the role of those innovations in the context of a specific cluster. We conducted a case study of Media City Bergen based on a thematic analysis of semi-structured elite interviews with executives of media-tech companies. Our findings show how media-tech companies bring innovation to production and distribution, content, and content consumption. Furthermore, they show how disruptiveness and the degree of innovations change with the maturation of the cluster.

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Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation: From Radical to Incremental Innovation in a Cluster

Milojevic,

Larsen

2024

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“…Concepts related to, but by no means interchangeable [54] with, creative networks include creative cities [55], creative ecosystems [56], creative knowledge exchange hubs [57], creative clusters or agglomerations [58][59][60], cultural hubs [61], communities of practice [62,63], social networks [64], creative places [65] and (co)-creative living labs [66]. This variety of circulated concepts underpins the broad literature that exists where two strands of thought prevail [67]: A dominant strand that explores the agglomeration and clustering of creative industries (co-location understanding [68]) and a second and more recent one that analyzes creative industries from a network and connectivity perspective (network understanding). So far, there is little communication between these two strands of research, and capturing the interconnections between the economic and cultural/relational dimensions of networks remains particularly challenging inside the creative industries [69].…”

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Joining the Dots—Understanding the Value Generation of Creative Networks for Sustainability in Local Creative Ecosystems

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In recent years, the ecological shift from an economically driven model of arts and culture to that of an ecosystem in the creative industries determined the emergence of a range of new bottom-up, place-based networks herewith referred to as “creative networks”. This article explores how these networks can generate sustainability for local creative ecosystems through a value network approach. Building on the quadruple helix model to identify the actors in these networks, this study explores the relationships and value flows between the actors of 22 identified creative networks across the UK. It then maps these relationships using data gathered through a mixed methodology that includes survey data and focus group research. Our findings show that creative networks operate as central nodes of the local creative ecosystem, functioning as a ‘glue’ inside the otherwise very heterogenous creative industries. From this position, creative networks can act as catalysts for sustainability. However, the economic, cultural, and social value created by creative networks is often overshadowed by other challenges including a lack of funding and a lack of understanding from policy makers or the public.

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