Little progress has been made in the mitigation of the controversies surrounding creativity and its role for local economic development (FLORIDA, 2002; PECK, 2005). Moreover, creative industries seem to have been denied, so far, a prominent role in the intense debate about the impact of localization or urbanization economies on innovation and growth. Taking departure in the void between these two streams of literature, I deploy the concept of «related variety», as formulated by BOSCHMA (2005) and FRENKEN, VAN OORT and VERBURG (2007), to verify if well-diversified and interdependent creative industries determine more pronounced local creative employment growth. A pooled OLS panel model has been estimated for 73 Italian provinces (2008-2010), using the total amount of creative workers as dependent variable and the variety indexes as main regressors. The results are mostly consistent with the main hypothesis: related variety, in terms of complementarity between sectors, has a positive and significant effect on provincial creative employment growth.

Does related variety matter for creative employment growth? / Simone, Andrea. - In: MEMORIE DELLA SOCIETÀ GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA. - ISSN 0391-5190. - ELETTRONICO. - 13:(2015), pp. 203-210. (Intervento presentato al convegno Oltre la Globalizzazione "Conflitti/Conflicts" tenutosi a Firenze nel 9 dicembre 2014).

Does related variety matter for creative employment growth?

SIMONE, ANDREA
2015

Abstract

Little progress has been made in the mitigation of the controversies surrounding creativity and its role for local economic development (FLORIDA, 2002; PECK, 2005). Moreover, creative industries seem to have been denied, so far, a prominent role in the intense debate about the impact of localization or urbanization economies on innovation and growth. Taking departure in the void between these two streams of literature, I deploy the concept of «related variety», as formulated by BOSCHMA (2005) and FRENKEN, VAN OORT and VERBURG (2007), to verify if well-diversified and interdependent creative industries determine more pronounced local creative employment growth. A pooled OLS panel model has been estimated for 73 Italian provinces (2008-2010), using the total amount of creative workers as dependent variable and the variety indexes as main regressors. The results are mostly consistent with the main hypothesis: related variety, in terms of complementarity between sectors, has a positive and significant effect on provincial creative employment growth.
2015
Oltre la Globalizzazione "Conflitti/Conflicts"
creative industry; elated variety ; Italian provinces
04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno::04c Atto di convegno in rivista
Does related variety matter for creative employment growth? / Simone, Andrea. - In: MEMORIE DELLA SOCIETÀ GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA. - ISSN 0391-5190. - ELETTRONICO. - 13:(2015), pp. 203-210. (Intervento presentato al convegno Oltre la Globalizzazione "Conflitti/Conflicts" tenutosi a Firenze nel 9 dicembre 2014).
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