I will show in this article that there are two distinct audiovisual clusters in the Netherlands. One is situated in Amsterdam, the cultural capital of the Netherlands, and one in Hilversum, the broadcasting centre of the Netherlands, 20 km east of Amsterdam. I will propose that the...

Van der Groep R. 'Breaking out' and 'breaking in': changing firm strategies in the Dutch audiovisual industry, Regional Studies. In this article, it is argued that privatization and deregulation processes in the Dutch broadcasting system in 1989 affected the entrepreneurial strategies of...