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- Borén, Thomas, et al.
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A brief review of regulation for creative and cultural industries
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report examines key elements of the European regulatory environment for the cultural and creative industries (CCI) and is part of Work Package 3 (Policy, regulatory and governance matrix of the CCI in Europe) of the CICERONE‐project (Creative Industries Cultural Economy Production Network, Grant No.: 822778). The focus of the report is on regulation within the EU that effect CCIs and their production networks and does not specifically address the myriad ways in which trade regulations and regulators effect CCIs. The perspective is based on the concept of Global Production Networks which suggests that the regulatory environment along the entire value chain of cultural production, and the places involved, needs to be considered together. The regulatory environment covering the CCIs encompasses both policy and legislation as well as it includes frameworks that exist at local, regional, national, EU, and supranational levels. In this report we discuss six key areas: (1) policy hierarchies and scalar and sectorial complexity; (2) regulation of work and contracts, with a focus on small actors and protected designations;( 3) content and production regulation, including notions of quotas, arm‐length’s distance and the new political landscape in Europe; (4) intellectual property rights regulation; (5) competition regulation, monopolies, and platform economies; (6) and regulation for the digital single market. Throughout the report we highlight possibilities that may be considered in policy to further support the CCIs.
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- Bråtå, Hans Olav, et al.
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Users’ role in innovation processes in the sports equipment industry : experiences and lessons
- 2009
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main objective of this project is to contribute to our knowledge about user-driven innovation and to suggest how knowledge on user-driven innovation may be included in innovation efforts and systems both for the sports equipment industry and for other industries. The study is primarily based on case studies of how firms within the Nordic sports equipment and outdoor industry involve users in their innovation efforts. Our studies concentrate on firms producing equipment for winter sport and outdoor recreation. The study builds upon a large number of interviews with firms and key persons as well as extensive analysis of available written material and research literature. The results focus on the identification of certain key user groups in the sports equipment innovation cycle: user innovators, professional and sponsored users, enthusiastic amateurs, passionate insiders and chains and retailers. We consider the extent to which these users influence or take part in innovation processes within technical design, visual design, branding and the development of product systems. The report concludes with policy recommendations for how firms may take advantage of each user group. In this respect we present some key points and examples on firms’ interaction with users in innovation processes. Other recommendations consider public policy and suggest that public policy ought to encourage firms to take advantage of knowledge held by those groups. In society a large number of user groups exist and public policy ought to stimulate use of their knowledge for a broader purpose, including societal development. Merging user groups in order to stimulate cross sector development, in addition to organising meeting places may be a theme for public policy at the regional level.
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- Collins, Patrick, et al.
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A co-evolving cultural cluster in the periphery : Film and TV production in Galway, Ireland
- 2019
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Ingår i: City, Culture and Society. - : Elsevier BV. - 1877-9166 .- 1877-9174. ; 18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we trace the co-evolution of a set of industries and supporting institutions in the Film and television (TV) industry in one of Europe’s most peripheral regions. It is a comprehensive overview of the key stages of development, from inception to sustainability with key roles enacted by a diverse set of actors, from community activists to the current Irish President. This work contributes to the growing literature that is focussing attention on the growth of creative economy activity beyond the city. We pay particular attention to the role played by firms, institutions and geography and their co-evolution towards a cluster of cultural activity in Galway, Ireland.
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- Hauge, Atle, et al.
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Quality, difference and regional advantage : The case of the winter sports industry
- 2013
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Ingår i: European Urban and Regional Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0969-7764 .- 1461-7145. ; 20:4 SI, s. 385-400
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- his paper addresses the role of quality, difference and differentiation in the value both producers and consumers attach to products and firms. It is argued that analysis of urban andregional competitiveness needs to be complemented by a renewed focus on the vital role thatquality plays in competitiveness as well as an understanding of geographies of product differenceand differentiation. Debates on economic development and resilience need to focus on innovation but also on how through making and providing quality goods and services - that may be based on the latest technologies or equally on age-old craft traditions - firms secure and develop competitive strengths. But since quality is always a value co-constructed in a negotiation between the consumer and producer, processes of identification and differentiation are formative. A case study of two developments in winter sport equipment is used to exemplify an industry in whichquality is both an entry condition as well as a major factor in differentiation and valuation. The case illustrates the roles of producer-led innovation and user-led innovation in equipment innovation; and that the appreciation of products' quality, value and differentiation rests in interactions between producers, intermediaries and led-users in localized and regional settings. Focusing on the geographies of quality and differentiation is suggested to be important not only for firms but also for urban and regional policy. Regional advantage may partly rest upon how actors come together to co-construct notions of quality and difference: notions that can have lasting effects on regional competitiveness.
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- Jansson, Johan, 1974-, et al.
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Constructing Scandinavian design : Cyclical clusters in global circuits
- 2009
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper explores the notion that the ‘origins’ of cultural products are built up in a dialectical relationship between the products of a cultural cluster and its place. Traditionally, research on cultural agglomerations has posited direct links between products and place: Hollywood films, Paris fashion, Italian design. It has been thought that regional and industrial success can be at least partly explained by mutual reinforcing effects: the industry adds to the local/regional brand and vice versa. This view, we suggest, is too one dimensional to explain the ‘origins’ of cultural products or to explain how origins embed a place. In particular, we suggest that understandings of connections between cultural products and place must be put in the context of the role ‘cyclical clusters’ in global circuits have in the ongoing constitution and reconstitution of spatial identifiers and brands. The paper uses the example of ‘Scandinavian Design’ which in its 50 year history has become an important identifier and brand used by design, architecture and fashion consumers and industries around the world to imbue cultural products and firms with various intangible values. The paper uses the example to show that: (i) industrial narratives can be crucial to producing imagined geographies of cultural production; and (ii) that such narratives of place have complex geographies that should be understood less in terms of their roots in that place than in terms of their roots in discursive fields played out through cyclical clusters in global circuits. The paper concludes by suggesting that we must go beyond thinking about cultural products ‘origins’ in terms of place-based constructs and instead think about how spatial narratives are constructed in global circuits of overlapping spaces that are timed and arranged in such a way that spaces can be reproduced, reenacted and renewed over time.
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- Jansson, Johan, 1974-, et al.
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Fashioning a Global City : Global City Brand Channels in the Fashion and Design Industries
- 2010
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Ingår i: Regional studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0034-3404 .- 1360-0591. ; 44:7, s. 889-904
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper approaches the ways in which fashion and design-based industrial actors contribute to creating images and myths that support global-city status. It is suggested that multi-channel systems of brand building and differentiation exist at regional and local levels, supportive of, and constituted by, cultural industries. The Italian city of Milan is used as a case study to show how the city is an arena where different brand channels are negotiated and formed to service fashion and design branding. For cultural industries, these systems are vital regional sources of advantage and necessary complements to other localized phenomena such as industrial agglomerations and clusters.
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- Lange, Bastian, et al.
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Geographies of field-configuring events
- 2014
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Ingår i: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie. - 0044-3751. ; 58:4, s. 187-201
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper treats the concept of ‘field-configuring events’ (FCE) and relates it to economic geographical research. The FCE approach attempts to draw attention to the role of events in fields of economic and social action and suggests that events can be important to introducing, structuring, maintaining and configuring new products, industrial standards, cultural artefacts and knowledge categories. The FCE approach has primarily been used to study the actors and networks associated with events such as trade shows, professional gatherings, technology contests, cultural tournaments, industrial exhibitions and business ceremonies: events where actors assemble to reveal novel prod- ucts, develop industry designs, initiate cultural trends, create social networks, and allocate meaning to previously unfamiliar circumstances. In this introductory paper, we identify the main research tra- jectories in FCE and link these to economic geography by identifying some common lines of thinking apparent in economic geography, management and organisational studies. The paper moves on to investigate the nature of the “field”, “configuration” and “events” from a geographic perspective, and to emphasize the role that space and power play as a structuring mechanisms in all three. We conclude that the FCE approach can function as a useful tool for geographical analysis of the increasing fluid and episodic contours of the contemporary space economy.
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