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By Jinliao He

ISBN-10: 3319019759

ISBN-13: 9783319019758

ISBN-10: 3319019767

ISBN-13: 9783319019765

Since the overdue Nineteen Nineties, there were extensive discussions about the speedy upward thrust of the artistic economic climate. inventive or cultural is obvious because the new engine of the nearby progress for either built economies and rising international locations. on the aspect of transition in economic system and society, China is lately striving to remodel its economic climate from “made in China” in the direction of “created in China”. This booklet offers an perception into inventive industries and areas in Shanghai, that is the quickest starting to be megacity in China and the heart of recent monetary improvement on an international scale. Underpinned via new techniques from fiscal geography and concrete stories, it offers with the recent relatives among the artistic economic climate and concrete surroundings in Shanghai. over the past decade, artistic clusters were swiftly rising particularly destinations within the vital urban of Shanghai. This spatial phenomenon is defined within the e-book via an research of dynamics, networks and implications.

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Moreover, there has been an increasing rise of studies on the patterns of international cooperation and knowledge exchange in both SMEs and MNCs (multinational corporations) (Cantwell and Piscitello 1999). The authors reread and extend the Marshallian industrial district to be “Neo-Marshallian industrial district” (Amin and Thrift 1992) or “new industrial district” (Park and Markusen 1995; Park 1996; Markusen 1996), in order to keep pace with the today’s competitive global economy. These concepts emphasize the importance of flexible specialization in the post-Fordist economic mode (Piore and Sabel 1984; Scott 1988), as well as networks and embeddedness within sociocultural context (Park 1996).

However, one should not ignore the fact that the gap between developing countries and developed countries is still massive, especially in the exports of creative services, where developed countries dominate the market with an 83 % market share. Moreover, worldwide observations suggest that creative industries have a highly biased distribution in cites and metropolitan areas on the macro level (Scott 1997; Foord 2009). Particularly, the world cities such as Paris, London, New York, and Los Angeles and more recently Berlin, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Seoul, and Shanghai enjoy a higher growth speed and employment rate of creative industries than their nations’.

First, strong local institutional relations may act as a prelude to regional economic success (Amin and Thrift 1995), through which localization processes enable local firms to reduce delivery and transaction costs, to use local industrial milieus, as well as allowing cultures to improve innovation potential (Park 1996). Meanwhile, “globalization processes with the inter-firm linkages in the global economy beyond national boundaries is able to increase demand, to save production costs and to limit the uncertainties in innovation and technological development ” (Park 1996).

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