Cultural economics and creative cities. New paradigms for innovation and growth
Cultural economics and creative cities. New paradigms for innovation and growth

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents from the cultural economics perspective the shift that this area of economic analysis has experimented in the last years from “cultural economics” to “economics of creativity”. In this framework we analyze the role of cultural industries and the proper concept of creativity from three axes. The first one is focused in the study of creative industries in the light of the new paradigm of “cultural capitalism”. The second one tries to place cultural industries in a new organizational paradigm: the so called “liver model”, in order to confront this with the former “ovarian model”. Finally we integrate these entire concepts in the urban development field taking as referential one the “creative city”. We are mainly interested in the capacity of public policies in order to generate innovation processes based on culture and creativity.

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