Creative Cluster Development: Governance, Place-Making and Entrepreneurship

In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development has gained increasing recognition from national and regional governments. Governments have been investing in initiatives and urban development plans that aim to create or support localized creative industries.

Our understanding of creative clusters is expanded with this insightful volume, which looks at issues of governance, place-making and entrepreneurship. In addition to its theoretical contributions, the book also presents a rich range of international case studies, including, among others, an analysis of coworking spaces in Toronto, business park development in MediaCityUK and mediapark.brussels and public–private partnerships in Warsaw.

Creative Cluster Development will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers in urban planning, regional studies, economic geography, innovation studies and the creative and cultural industries.

Marlen Komorowski, PhD in Media and Communication Studies, is Senior Researcher at imec-SMIT (Studies on Media, Innovation & Technology) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Impact Analyst for Clwstwr at Cardiff University. As a researcher, her work focuses on media and creative industries-related projects, impact analysis, industry clustering, ecosystem and value network analysis, new business models and the impact of digitization on industries and firms.

Ike Picone is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Unit Leader within the research group imec-SMIT-VUB, where he heads the research in Journalism, Trust and Participation. He is also a member of the Council for Journalism of Flanders (Belgium). His research topics include user participation in online news, the changing relationship between news audiences and journalists and the role of new media in the emergence of deliberative public spheres.