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Despite the growing popularity of the ecosystem vision of complex adaptive systems in the social sciences, the cultural and creative sectors are still theoretically and empirically studied with a prevalent industrial focus. However, several scholars have depicted culture and creativity as connected living organisms, with different components, norms, and behaviors, interacting in local and global networks. This chapter explores how the concept of the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) evolved over time and whether an ecosystem approach may be considered a new representation of the relationships and dynamics of CCIs as an alternative to those based on industrial specializations. Starting from the model of culture-economy-society-technology and moving through the contribution of the complex adaptive systems framework, the chapter maps the evolution of actors, relationships, and structures of the CCIs ecosystem.

This paper analyses entrepreneurship adopting the concept of ‘emergence’, defined in the literature on entrepreneurship and complexity, as the creation of a new order, arising from the interactions...

The aim of this chapter is to explore the literature on creative entrepreneurship under the lens of the creative economy approach and of local economic development. The study was carried out in two phases: first, the main definitions of creative entrepreneurship and its declinations are reviewed; second, a first bibliometric analysis is conducted on the ISI Web of Science database for the period 1998–2016, and around 300 publications are selected. Even with some limitations, the results of the research highlight how the topic has consistently grown and taken up a multidisciplinary character in recent years, although it remains a niche theme but with high potential for development. We found that the creative dimension is overwhelmingly entering the debate, beside the cultural sphere. However, the issue on the definition of creative entrepreneurship remains open.