Beyond Networks and Relations: Towards Rethinking Creative Cluster Theory

• Main Author: Kong, Lily
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Economic development; Competition; Innovation; Geography; Singapore; creative clusters; cultural creative clusters; Asian Studies; Human Geography; Urban Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1805; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9949-6_5
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The concept of “creative clusters” is a difficult one, complicated not least by the complexity of its constituent components — the concept of “creativity” and the idea of “clusters”. The debates surrounding the explanatory value and the promise and potential of creative clusters are particularly sig...