Search

While taking over the Editorial Board of a journal like Regional Studies will never be easy, our start greatly benefited from the excellent shape in which we inherited the journal from the team bas...

Part I: Cultural and Creative Industries in Europe 1. The Geography of Creative Industries in Europe: Comparing France, Great Britain, Italy and Spain Rafael Boix, Luciana Lazzeretti, Francesco Capone, Lisa De Propris and Daniel Sanchez 2. Why Do Creative Industries Cluster? Luciana Lazzeretti, Rafael Boix and Francesco Capone 3. Creative Industries in Spain: The case of printing and publishing Rafael Boix 4. Creative and Cultural Industries in Austria Michaela Trippl, Franz Todtling and Rene Schuldner 5. Creative Industries in the United Kingdom Lisa De Propris 6. Leisure, Culture and Experience Economy as a Creative Strategy in the Periphery: Does North Denmark benefit from the experience economy? Anne Lorentzen 7. Creative Industries and Creative City Policy in Japan Masayuki Sasaki Part II: Innovation, Creative Space and Symbolic Value 8. Complexity Geography and the Rise of the Green Creative City Philip Cooke 9. From Cultural Cluster to Creative Cluster: The case of art restoration in Florence Luciana Lazzeretti and Tommaso Cinti 10. Geographical Proximity and New Short Supply Food Chains Leila Kebir and Andre Torre 11. Product Category Dynamics in Cultural Industries: Spaghetti Westerns' renewal of the Hollywood Western movie genre Gino Cattani and C. Moritz B. Fliescher 12. Cultural Activities in Territorial Development: The case of cultural and creative enterprises in the Swiss watchmaking industry Hugues Jeannerat and Olivier Crevoisier 13. Putting Creativity in Place: A relational and practice perspective Udo Staber 14. Design at Work: The interwoven effect of territorial embeddedness, social ties and business networks Marco Bettiol and Silvia Rita Sedita 15. The Importance of Gatekeeping Processes and Reputation Building in the Sustainability of Creative Milieus: Evidence from case studies in Lisbon, Barcelona and Sao Paulo Pedro Costa

It is often deplored that the role of Geographical Proximity in creativity, innovation and regional development dynamics has been considered of secondary importance in the recent debates on the end of Geography. However the issue of Geographical Proximity comes back into force today, notably in one of the basic functions of our society: food. Based on the literature on short supply food chains and on the works on proximity relations, this paper aims at understanding the roles, contents and meaning of different types of proximities, for creativity, innovation and regional development dynamics.

Part 1: The business model of industrial districts and clusters in the knowledge-based view and in the social network analysis perspective 1. The international fragmentation of the industrial districts value chain between relocation and global integration Fiorenza Belussi and Alessia Sammarra 2. Situated business networks facing globalisation: a critical assessment Fiorenza Belussi and Silvia Sedita 3. Boundary spanning strategies of industrial districts: the impact of absorptive capacity Tine Aage Part 2: Industrial districts and clusters in the global value chains. A taxonomical exercise on the path-dependent avenue of Marshallian/Satellite/Evolutionary/Science districts 4. Industrial districts and clusters in the global value chain: the cases of Saonara, Pistoia and Boskoop Fiorenza Belussi and Silvia Rita Sedita 6. The evolution of the Montebelluna sportswear district through knowledge creation, ICT adoption, and international commercial nets Fiorenza Belussi 7. A "low road" to competitiveness in the global apparel industry: the case of the Vibrata Valley district Alessia Sammarra 8. From proximity advantages to organisational advantages through the global extension of an industrial district: the case of the footwear district of Verona Fiorenza Belussi 9. Facing globalisation through inward and outward investments and international research collaboration: evidence from the biomedical district of Mirandola Fiorenza Belussi and Alessia Sammarra 10. Moving immigrants into western industrial districts: the "inverse" delocalisation of the leather tanning district of Arzignano Fiorenza Belussi and Silvia Rita Sedita 11. The clustering R&D through the institutional mechanisms in the Paris Region Najoua Boufaden, Sofiene Lourimi and Andre Torre 12. Transferring entrepreneurialship: the making of the cluster of Timisoara Fiorenza Belussi 13. How deeply embedded is the "footwear agglomeration" in Timisoara? Simona Montagnana 14. The Evolution of External Linkages and Relational Density in the Tuscan Leather Industry Lorenzo Bacci and Mauro Lombardi and Sandrine Labory 15. Local development and innovation policies in China: the experience of Guangdong specialised towns Annalisa Caloffi 16. Industrial Clusters in the Brazilian Ceramic Tile Industry and the New Challenges of the Competition in the Global Value Chain Renato Garcia and Gabriela Scur 17. The localisation of multinationals in Italian clusters between Marshallian and urban externalities Nicoletta Tessieri