Blockchain technology may have first emerged with bitcoin but its significance extends far beyond the financial sector: it is ushering in a whole new techno-economic paradigm. This book provides the first critical, in-depth examination of blockchain’s transformative impact on the creative...

Chapter 1: Introduction Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship as Drivers for Change and Development -- PART I: Combining Creative Industries and Business Issues -- Chapter 2: Culture-Based Products: Integrating Cultural and Commercial Strategies -- Chapter 3: Entrepreneurial Behavior and...

This book discusses the rise of the creative economy. Organisations like UNCTAD have observed the emergence of the creative economy across the globe and noted its resilience in the face of recent economic turmoil. Here, the authors intend to bring the level of analysis down to the regional and...

This book combines insights from cultural economics, public finance, and tax law, providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction in the application of tax incentives for the creative industries. It does not have a single-country focus, but instead uses the perspective and examples of...

Analyzing the role of creative industries, this book explores regional development within the economic cycle. Using the Greek region of Epirus as an in-depth case study, the authors identify the main opportunities for the region’s development as well as the necessary conditions and constraints...

Erster Teil -- Zum Begriff der Kreativen Industrien -- Zur Theorie der Kreativen Industrien -- Kreative Industrien im Internationalen Überblick -- Zweiter Teil -- Von der Theorie zur Empirie -- Kreative Industrien Berlins im Überblick -- Kreative Industrien Berlins im Detail -- Exkurs:...

Einführung: Bedeutung der Kreativwirtschaft für branchenübergreifende Innovationskooperationen -- Innovationstrends und - treiber in der Kreativwirtschaft und anderen Sektoren -- Innovationsprozess: Spillovereffekte und Open sowie Cross Innovation in der Kreativwirtschaft -- Praxisbeispiele...

This book introduces a radically spatialised approach to knowledge creation and innovation. Reflecting on an array of European urban and regional developments, it offers an updated notion of milieu as the conceptual and material space of knowledge and innovation in line with the interpretative...

Die Wirtschaftskrisen der vergangenen Jahre haben das Ansehen multinationaler Konzerne ins Wanken gebracht. Zu groß, zu unbeweglich, zu unsympathisch – sagen viele junge Arbeitnehmer und Entrepreneure. Diese Avantgarde eines neuen Unternehmertums verfolgt ihre Geschäftsideen lieber selbst in...

1 -- The Notion of Creative Industries -- On the Theory of Creative Industries -- An International Overview on the Creative Industries -- 2 -- From Theory to Empirics -- The Berlin Creative Industries at a Glance -- The Creative Industries in Detail -- Excursus: Differences among Research...