创意产业及其地方性

本文致力研究创意产业集群与城市政策和效益之间的互动。研究的创意产业行业包括软件、多媒体、电子游戏、时装设计、出版、研究与开发。经验调查研究以多个城市的情况作为基础,这些城市包括美国的波士顿、旧金山、圣迭亚戈、西雅图、奥斯丁、华盛顿特区、爱尔兰的都柏林、东京和印度的班加罗尔。本文关键的研究问题是:什么类型的城市是富有创意的?什么区位因素是必不可少的?创意城市共同采取的政策措施有哪些?文章首先总结了影响地方特定创意产业集群的因素和政策措施;接着深入剖析两个成功的创意城市——波士顿和圣迭亚戈的案例,随后讨论城市各自的某些特征是否使得它们更适合发展某一特定的创意产业。

Power of Place on Creative Industries

This paper focuses on interactions of the clustering of creative industries,urban policy,and urban outcomes. The set of creative industries include software,multimedia,video games,fashion design,publishing,and research and development. The cities that form the basis for the empirical investigations are Boston,San Francisco,San Diego,Seattle,Austin,Washington DC,Dublin （Ireland）,Tokyo （Japan）,and Bangalore （India）. The key research questions are： What types of cities are creative？ What locational factors are essential？ What are the common urban policy initiatives used by creative cities？ The paper first isolates the factors and policies that have contributed to the local clustering of particular creative industries. Next the paper presents more in-depth case studies of two successful creative cities-Boston and San Diego, followed by a discussion on whether particular features of individual cities make them better suited for specific creative industries.