Is Creative Cluster the Best Vehicle for Delivering Growth of Creative Industry?
Jia Wang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59429/pmcs.v5i4.1183
Keywords: Creative Cluster; Creative Industry
Abstract
With the impetus of the economic globalization, creative industry has become the trend of the development of the world economy and culture, and the new direction and model of industrial development. In order to promote the development of the creative industry’s clustering, scale, branding, creative cluster has emerged and developed. Creative clusters have a profound cultural background, strong economic spill-over effect and scale effect, which refers to a group of enterprises with characteristics of cultural industry and regarding to people’s creativity as the primary productivity (Drake, 2003). However, it has been claimed that there are some criticisms about creative clusters. Some think that creative cluster is the best vehicle for delivering growth of creative industry while other think it has many weaknesses of creative cluster and might be replaced by other forms, such as ‘small dog cluster economy’. This essay will first discuss the two main existing models of creative clusters separately Then it will examine the strengthens and weaknesses of creative clusters for creative industry with examples explaining it with different scholars. Finally, it will discuss whether it exists other forms could also replace creative clusters for delivering growth to development of creative industry.
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