Creative industries tend to concentrate mainly around large- and medium-sized cities, forming creative local production systems. The text analyses the forces behind clustering of creative industries to provide the first empirical explanation of the determinants of creative employment clustering...

Metropolitan areas concentrate the main share of population, production and consumption in OECD countries. They are likely to be the most important units for economic, social and environmental analysis as well as for the development of policy strategies. However, one of the main problems that...

El presente trabajo presenta la revisión de los mapas de distritos industriales y sistemas productivos locales manufactureros de gran empresa de España siguiendo la nueva metodología ISTAT 2006. El artículo presenta la metodología de identificación de sistemas locales de trabajo, distritos...