The role of business incubators in the development of sustainable clusters of cultural and creative industries

Clusters of cultural and creative industries are rather widespread in and surrounding inner cities. The development and dynamics of these clusters are objects of study of various conceptual approaches: some aim at their role and significance for urban development, others at their development and dynamics as such. These latter approaches focus...

Transnational learning in Creative City Challenge

Report written in the context of the INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge. Based on a series of international expert meetings the report discusses various themes in relation to creative city policy, and analyses the process of transnational learning itself.

Creative City Challenge: Policy measures and applications

Report written in the framework of NSR INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge. The report presents the results of the project by means of an interactive toolkit for policy-makers. It presents policy measures to foster creative city development and their application on CCC partner cities and regions, and discusses the transferability of...

People climate: Intangible urban qualities in local economic policy

Study report written in the context of the INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge. Based on a series in-depth interviews the report analyses the role of intangible urban qualities in urban-economic policy from different perspectives.

Creative city policy: Bridging the gap with theory

The creative city concept is popular among researchers and policy-makers. On the one hand, academic literature elaborates, on a conceptual level, the importance of creativity and innovation for urban competitiveness; on the other, numerous cities develop and implement creative city policies in practice. The connection between these two is rather...

The creative economy in CCC cities and regions: Creative City Challenge

Report written within the framework of WP6 Activity 2 of the NSR INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge, file nr. 35-2-07-09

Key elements of creative city development: An assessment of local policies in Amsterdam and Rotterdam

The creative city thesis states that creativity — a creative milieu — is an important precondition for innovation to flourish. Yet, the creative city is often considered a hype, something momentary. This raises the question of whether this thesis has any long-term value. This paper reflects on this question from a local policy perspective. It...

Creative city development in the Lisbon strategy: Evidence from Dutch ERDF allocation

Creativity is considered a main factor of urban competitiveness nowadays. However, while local policies increasingly reflect the ideas of Richard Florida, Charles Landry and others, the influence of the creative city concept on higher level policies is not clear. The paper takes this issue to the European Union’s Lisbon strategy, intended to...