Creative Industries Agglomeration,Regional Innovation and Productivity Growth in China

This paper falls into the broad area of economic geography and economics of creativity,and it presents an alternative approach to explain why total factor productivity(TFP)growth is different across China′s regions.It establishes an empirical model to estimate the spatial agglomeration effects of creative industries on regional TFP growth,using China′s provincial panel data during the period of 2003 to 2010.We found that the creative industries agglomeration(CIA)has significant and positive impact on regional TFP growth.The result also implies that the CIA can facilitate regional TFP growth through promoting regional innovation instead of improving regional efficiency.Therefore,we argue that policy makers should take some measures to retain and establish more creative zones.

The role of cultural and creative industries in optimizing industrial structure under low-carbon emission constraint

In the post-financial crisis era,China is facing dual pressure from reducing carbon emissions and external demand stagnation.The industrial structure changing is in urgent needs.The cultural and creative industries can expand China's markets through creating and stimulating demands,and can reduce carbon emissions at the same time.By producing both demands and supplies,cultural and creative industries may lead the development of other industries.Since innovation plays a quite important role in the value chain,cultural and creative industries can promote the industrial upgrading and the industrial structure optimization by industrial convergence.

New Forms, Trends and Problems of Cultural and Creative Industries in China Today

A creative economy is one of the latest trends in the global cultural economic development, with innovation and creation being the driving force of the global economy and cultural practice. To transform cultural industries into cultural and creative industries, the priority is economic restructuring, and specifically upgrading low-end manufacturing through creation. From the Internet way of thinking to "Internet+," from theories to practice, high technologies represented by the Internet have deeply integrated with culture, thereby opening a new dimension of innovation and creation to enhance the dynamics of creative industries and a creative economy. The fast-growing maker movement is an excellent strategy for China to develop into a great country of originality. Core contents of this movement include facilitating national originality, achieving leaping development of originality of our cultural and creative industries, promoting Internet celebrity economy, VR, AR, and other new experiments and new forms. What should correspond to "Internet+" and "Maker space" is "Culture+". It is vital to notice that culture, esthetics and ethics are in fact missing in the development of our cultural and creative industries.

Socio-cultural Embeddedness of Spatial Agglomeration of Creative Industries in Shanghai

Rapidly emerged creative industries receive increasing attention from a variety of disciplines. However, the space features of creative industries and its association with local socio-cultural contexts have not been fully understood, especially at a micro-city level. This study attempts to understand the agglomeration of creative industries in Shanghai from the sociology perspective. For this study, this paper utilizes primarily a questionnaire survey to explain the space features of creative industries in Shanghai. The results indicate an extensive socio-cultural embeddedness of the agglomeration of creative industries in Shanghai. First, strong emphasis on face-to-face contacts by creative professionals makes geographical agglomeration necessary for creative industries. Second, the reason why inner city of Shanghai is popular among creative professionals and enterprises lies in the diversity of cultures and special environment of the former colonial zones of Shanghai. Additionally, highly concentrated dining and entertainment facilities in the central city of Shanghai offer creative workers social networking places and nightlife venues. Third, as the educational attainment of local citizens and the protection of intellectual property are highly stressed by creative professionals, research and design specialized creative industries are more likely located near universities and research institutes.

Under Pressure:The Work in Brazilian Creative Industries and the New Era of Globalization

The aim of the article is to examine the work in Brazilian creative industries in the new era of globalization.The main argument indicates that creative professionals are increasingly encouraged to assume entrepreneurial skills.Although work in creative industries is typically characterized by expressive,intrinsically motivating,and autonomous content,socio-occupational conditions are typically unfavorable.The adverse work conditions of the Brazilian creative class,in the context of globalization,can be identified in precarious contracts,the lack of social guarantees,the management of fear and moral harassment,and the imposition of unattainable production goals on workers.

Competitiveness Comparison of International Trade in Creative Industries： China trends and features

This article first summarizes the concept systems and models of creative industries, then compares China＇s international competitiveness index, import and export value, sub-sector indicators with developed countries and other world economics from 2002 to 2008, analyzes the present trends, features and problems, and discusses irrational structure of China＇ s creativity goods and services export, imbalance value between import and export, insufficient generating and consuming of original creativities through the international creative industries trade statistics at last.

Development of Cultural and Creative Industries in China and Its Impacts on Urban Renovation

Emerging along with the economic restructuring and the increase of cultural demands after the reforms and opening-up in the late1970s,the cultural and creative industries have gone through rapid development in China driven by the reform on cultural system.Since the21stcentury,the development of cultural and creative industries has further become one of China’s national policies of industrial development,occupying a significant position in the national economy.Starting by clarifying various definitions on the conception of cultural and creative industry,this paper outlines the process of cultural and creative industry development in China since the reforms and opening-up,summarizes its development trends in the past decade and its contributions to the socio-economic development,and analyzes its potential influences on the urban renovation of certain kinds of areas,in particular the historic neighborhoods in regeneration,the industrial areas in redevelopment,and the peripheral urban villages in transformation.

Living on the Edge: Brazilian Creative Workers in the Gig Economy During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The aim is to analyse the situation of Brazilian creative workers in the gig economy during the COVID-19 pandemic.The main argument indicates that,despite the opportunities for entrepreneurship brought by gig economy during the COVID-19 pandemic,Brazilian creative workers may be open to exploitation and lower wages and show lower levels of satisfaction compared to the creative activities they used to have before the pandemic.The workers became even more exposed to the lack of long-standing protections-such as a minimum wage,safety and health regulation,retirement income,health insurance,and worker compensation-and risks that were previously shouldered by employers and the state,including responsibility for bodily injury,damage to tools and assets,coverage between paid gigs,financial malfeasance by customers,and harassment.

Creative Economy and Materials Science & Engineering

New materials are fundamental to the growth,security,and quality of life of human being sand open doors to technologies in civil,chemical,nuclear,aeronautical,mechanical,biomedical,and electrical engineering.Creative companies use multiple materials in the development of their activities,such as solid stone,fiber glass,concrete,and glass reinforced concrete,for example.Based on bibliographic research,the article examines the synergy between materials science&engineering and creative economy.The main argument indicates that this synergy creates solutions and functionalities that add value to existing products and allow the development of new products with competitive advantages.It may also contribute to the preservation of cultural values and promote sustainability.

Creative Economy, Manufacturing Industry, and Agribusiness in the New Era of Globalization

The aim is to examine how the creative sectors and professionals contribute to the manufacturing industry and agribusiness in the new era of globalization.Creative sectors can develop innovations and experiences as part of their own activities,as well as procedures,technologies,and routines in business models,which increase the efficiency or the quality of the results.Creative professionals can support innovation and the generation of experiences.

Where Dreams and Nightmares Are From: Creativity and Creative Economy

The aim is to examine the multiple meanings of creativity in creative economy.The meanings which reinforce the individual aspect stress that personal characteristics may unlock the wealth that lies within people.The definitions that reinforce the organizational and social aspects understand creativity as a process,which requires knowledge,networks,and technologies that interconnect novel ideas and contexts.The perspectives which reinforce the political aspect see that creativity took the status of a doctrine to secure collaboration between government and industry.However,these notions of creativity stress its instrumental utility and undermine fantasy,play,or uselessness.

Orgasmic Bodies: Do-It-Yourself Sexualities, Pharmaceuticals, and Creative Economy

Based on bibliographic research, the article examines how pharmaceuticals address people‟s sexual needs and desires,stimulated by creative economy. The main argument indicates that pharmaceuticals create conditions for do-it-yourself sexualities,based on bodily stereotypes disseminated by creative industries, which reflect dominant heteronormative discourses. People shapetheir bodies, enhance sexual experiences, and foster sexual hygiene and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

Research on the Development Path of Zigong Salt Culture and Creative Industry in the Era of Digital New Media

Salt culture is the main component of traditional culture in Zigong,Sichuan.With centuries of history,it has accumulated rich cultural connotations.At present,Zigong salt culture,as a precious traditional cultural wealth,has taken cultural and creative industries as a new carrier of communication in the rapid development of digital new media technology,giving full play to the resource advantages of its traditional culture.This article focuses on the study of the development path of Zigong salt cultural and creative industry in the new digital media era.Combining digital new media technology with cultural and creative industries,Zigong salt culture actively uses virtual technology to realize the innovative development of cultural and creative industries,promote the cultivation of cultural and creative brands based on digital new media technology.This article aims to give relevant strategies with reference value,so as to make corresponding contributions to the development path of Zigong salt culture in the future.

The study of folk culture and creative industry development strategy in Hebei

Hebei province is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, it is one of the birthplace of the Chinese nation. Its superior natural conditions gave birth to the rich and colorful folk culture. In the trend of rapid development of modem economy, more and more people are aware of the important position in the cultural construction and huge potential about the folk culture. But as the result of the modem cultural development faster and faster, many folk culture has been neglected, even under the modem culture.

In the Future,Will There Be Creative Cities in China?

The aim of this paper is to establish the notion of the creative city,show its essential characteristics,and critically evaluate and analyse what elements impact creativity and innovation in cities using real case studies and related literature.Finally,in the essay,the topic of whether or not China will have creative cities in the future is asked,and the feasibility of constructing creative cities in China is discussed,prompting a new way of thinking about China’s future creative city plan.

Transforming Strijp S： From Philips＇ Industrial Site to New Residential and Creative Area

In the contemporary city, the transformation of abandoned industrial landscapes offers great potential for experimentation and in creating new urban environments. Industrial heritage plays an essential role in this respect and it goes beyond its strong cultural and symbolic value. In fact, industrial-cultural heritage is able to re-enact people＇s capability to maintain the culture of the past while looking forward with appropriate and innovative design solutions. This paper focuses on the design of regeneration of the former Philips＇ electronic industrial area named Strijp S in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The master plan is pioneer in experimental rules on development areas due to the Crisis and Recovery Act （2010）, a new Dutch law in response to development and economical crisis. The authors identify four criteria of analysis in order to show the complexity of this urban transformation and assess the results of this work-in-progress transformation. Moreover, it will discuss the challenges for industrial architecture/heritage when incorporating different objectives of redevelopment and to which extent the local dynamics are linked to the design of reuse. As conclusion, the paper will debate on the comprehensive urban framework, which puts forward sustainable design criteria, sets out principles in temporary and long-term reuse of the old buildings, and on their implication in terms of urban quality of indoor and outdoor spaces.

External Incentive Mechanism Research on Knowledge Cooperation-Sharing in the Chinese Creative Industry Cluster

The creative industry is a knowledge-based industry,but it is difficult and complex to create knowledge for enterprises.The principle of cooperationsharing posits that companies’limited resources prohibit them from gaining a competitive advantage in all business areas.Therefore,cooperation-sharing can help businesses overcome this hurdle.Cooperation-sharing expedites economic development,breaks the barrier of independent knowledge creation,and enhances resource utilization.However,the effectiveness and stability of knowledge cooperation-sharing are key problems facing governments and other regulators.This study can help regulators promote honesty in enterprise cooperation-sharing.Based on the hypothesis of bounded rationality,the evolutionary game theory was used to construct the“Enterprises–Informal Institutions–Government”tripartite game matrix.Next,based on this game matrix,a simulation analysis method was used to analyze the effects of external incentives on the stability of evolutionary strategies.The analysis shows that the strategic choice of the“Enterprises–Informal Institutions–Government”tripartite game could be affected by the initial state strategy choices of the other two players,but more influential were the cost and external incentive levels of the game players.The results indicate that the government and informal institutions should regulate enterprises with a rational external incentive mechanism that boosts the enterprises’incentive to cooperate honestly.Thus,an effective external incentive mechanism can significantly improve the probability of enterprises behaving honestly in cooperation-sharing and promote the development of the creative industry.

Design of Creative Incentive Contract of Cultural and Creative Industry Chain from Dual Perspective

The duality of cultural and creative industry can maintain the independence of creative birth and management as well as taking into account of the artistic and marketability of creativity.Income distribution contracts that link the design process to the commercial value of creative ideas can solve the problem of quantitative incentives for creative subjects.At the same time,it can encourage creative subjects to complete commercial and artistic design activities.The principal-agent relationship between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain is utilized to stimulate the creation of creative ideas in line with market conditions,so as to solve the problem of duality reconciliation of cultural and creative industries.Through the design of the cultural creative industry chain dual task creative incentive contract,in the process of encouraging creative design subjects to complete the design of the work to give consideration to the coordination of duality.By analyzing the influences of design capability,risk,cost coefficient and binary correlation on the optimal investment level and the optimal risk sharing level of creative subjects in two types of design activities,the input transfer caused by the variation of the above conditions is further discussed.

Creative Industrial Cluster： Three- Stage Development and the Case of Beijing＇s 798 Art District

This paper presents a three-stage hypothesis on the development of creative industrial clusters, which includes stages of agglomeration, interfacing, and network development. In the first stage, micro-entities concentrate geographically in a creative industrial cluster in search of resources. The second stage reflects the need for building identity. Finally, the third stage is the outcome of multi-dimensional expansion. As a creative industrial cluster develops, its focus moves from geographic concentration to division of labor and the creation of novel systems. Using this three-stage framework, this paper conducts an empirical study on Beijing＇s 798 District （＂798＂）. Our study finds that the ＂self-destruction ＂phenomenon （which appeared after 798 had reached the stage of network development in a low-level capacity） is essentially the product of a squeezing effect of commercial prosperity on art production. Our study further examines four models of art-commerce integration and explains the ways in which creative industrial clusters are different from conventional industrial clusters： a creative cluster is a platform of integration for culture, commerce, and technology. Its course of development is characterized by novelty, emergence of identity through interfacing, and network cooperation.

Research on the Development of Shanghai Creative Industry Park

With the rise and development of knowledge economy in the world, the economic form is undergoing a global strategic change, the creative economy has become the new economic form of international strategic competition, and shows a number of development trends. The creative industry is rising rapidly at an unprecedented rate and becoming an important pillar of the economic development of all countries. In recent years, with the adjustment of China＇s industrial structure, creative industry has been paid more and more attention. Shanghai as the early development of Creative Industrial Park City, in recent years, the number of creative industrial parks in Shanghai has been more and more, according to the author statistics 2017 Shanghai, the current creative industrial park has reached 385, these industrial parks are mainly located in the city center, mainly engaged in the project to fashion design, cultural media, architectural design, Research and development design, consulting planning mainly.