Defining the Creative Economy: Industry and Occupational Approaches

By A. Markusen, Gregory Wassall, D. DeNatale, Randy Cohen. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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Creative and cultural work without filters: Covid-19 and exposed precarity in the creative economy (2020, background): “approach was heavily criticized for being fuzzy (Markusen et al., 2008), as well as for subjugating creativity to the new neoliberal urban imperative (Peck, 2005).”
Does urban form matter for innovation productivity? A national multi-level study of the association between neighbourhood innovation capacity and urban sprawl (2019, background): “…in the economic terminology (referring to Schumpeter’s aforementioned definition) is a broader and more inclusive phenomenon that contains creative industries, STEM (science, technology, engineering and science) industries and KIBS (knowledge intensive business services) (Markusen et al., 2008).”
Art Spaces in Community and Economic Development: Connections to Neighborhoods, Artists, and the Cultural Economy (2011, background): “, architecture, graphic design), and visual and performing arts and may cut across commercial, nonprofit, and informal spheres (Markusen et al. 2008).”
Cultural Industries: Product–Market Characteristics, Management Challenges and Industry Dynamics (2015, neutral): “Such goods offer a low level of utilitarian value, and a high level of aesthetic (Hirsch 1972; Power 2002), symbolic (DeFillippi et al. 2007; Throsby 2001), social meaning (Markusen et al. 2008) and social display value (Bourdieu 1984; Scott 1999a).”
Cultural economy and the creative field of the city (2010, background): “…years about the precise definition of the cultural (or creative) economy and its sectoral and occupational composition (Pratt 1997; Power 2002; Markusen et al. 2008). this inconclusiveness is scarcely surprising in view of the circumstance that no hard and fast line can be drawn between…”
Cultural economy planning in creative cities: Discourse and practice (2013, background): “…of the cultural or creative economy, research in this arena typically focuses on the production and consumption of goods and services with high symbolic value and generally rely on specialized labor and intellectual property (Americans for the Arts, 2008; Markusen et al., 2008; Scott, 2000).”