Sierra Leone's creative economy is a significant yet underleveraged engine for diversification, youth employment, and cultural expression, contributing an estimated 4.5% of GDP and over 10% of formal employment. This Creative Economy Diagnostic and Roadmap analyzes the structure and performance...

This study examines the impact of changes in shareholder wealth and risks in cultural and creative industries (C&CIs) from an investor's perspective, testing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using weekly data on cultural and creative stocks in the Taiwan stock market and empirical studies...

The aim of this study is to fill the gap in the literature regarding the empirical analysis of digital competitive advantage and to extend the knowledge about its antecedents such as digital culture and digital creativity. The subject of this study is micro, small and medium-sized enterprises...

Artificial intelligence's (AI) rapid growth in creative industries has created a difficult choice: While companies can use AI to work faster, this often reduces human creativity and innovation. We show how educational institutions can resolve this by bringing together different groups to work...

This study investigates the factors driving innovation in museums by incorporating both technological and symbolic innovations. Unlike previous research, it employs a comprehensive set of determinants to examine their impact on technological and symbolic innovations. Based on data from 250...

This study provides an assessment of the Creative Europe Programme's (CEP) contribution to the development of the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) at local and regional levels across Europe. It analyses both the opportunities and constraints shaping the engagement of local and regional...

Research background: Creative industries nowadays stand as one of the driving forces behind modern knowledge-based economies. Despite their many advantages, this research focuses on some of the less positive aspects of their development, notably less than optimal working conditions. Purpose: One...

Studies of non-standard, project-based forms of work prevalent in the creative industries have typically theorized the relational dynamics of work as a competitive process of social capital accumulation involving an individualistic, self-enterprising, zero-sum, and winner-takes-all struggle for...

Employee turnover remains a critical challenge for organizations, prompting an examination of how leadership approaches influence employees' intentions to leave. This study investigates the impact of transformational leadership on turnover intention, focusing on emotional exhaustion and...

This report has been prepared within the 'European Monitor of Industrial Ecosystems' (EMI) project with the objective to analysing the green and digital transformation of industrial ecosystems and progress made over time, in this specific case, cultural and creative industries. For greater...

This report gives an overview of the structure of the European Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs), their strengths and challenges and the possible impact on them of new ICTs and AI. It sets out the economic importance of this industry and its crossover impact on other sectors of the...

Startup clusters exert a significant influence on territorial dynamics and local urban development by attracting job opportunities, talent, and shaping market interest, supported by effective land use policies. This study examines the impact of Urban Development Policies (UDP) on technology...

WORTH Partnership Project is an initiative of the European Commission funded recently through the COSME programme for competitiveness of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Its main objective is to strengthen the competitiveness of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in lifestyle...

Identifying creative ability and its determinants is crucial in understanding artistic and innovative achievements. Previous work has shown that performance across established creativity tasks does not correlate within participants. A potential reason for this finding is that most creativity...

We analyze how deterministic political competition between the elites and the so-called creative class shapes economic outcomes in a stylized region. By deterministic, we mean a case where political power has shifted from the elites to the creative class with probability one. There are three...

This study examines how Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) can be effectively utilised as a good practice to analyse Amazon reviews within the creative and cultural industry category of Design, particularly Arts, Crafts & Sewing. By focusing on specific products and reviews...

EIT Culture & Creativity is a knowledge and innovation community (KIC) created by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in 2022. The EIT is Europe's largest innovation ecosystem offering education, innovation and business creation services to solve global challenges. EIT...

The overall aim of the study was to identify the key national and regional support measures aimed at increasing the capacity of the European audiovisual (AV) industries and to review the impact of these measures on facilitating the AV operators' access to MEDIA funding. The study also assessed...

We analyze how a permanent shift in political power in a region that is creative a la Richard Florida affects tax policy and economic outcomes. There are three groups of individuals in our region: laborers or workers, creative class members or entrepreneurs, and the elites. The elites initially...

The following publication presents the Creative Europe's support to the book and publishing sector with a specific focus on projects working on the theme of youth that were selected and funded between 2021 and 2024. This publication highlights the diversity of projects with youth-oriented...

The following publication presents the Creative Europe's support to the book and publishing sector with a specific focus on projects working on the theme of youth that were selected and funded between 2021 and 2024. This publication highlights the diversity of projects with youth-oriented...

Technological change has repeatedly disrupted creative labor markets, raising concerns about whether new tools substitute for artists or shift the organization of creative work. This paper studies how occupational exposure to generative AI (genAI) maps into employment and earnings outcomes for...

This study investigated the interplay between community-based cultural initiatives conducted by Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) and social innovation. Selecting peer-reviewed open-access articles that focus on the intersection of culture and innovation was the first step in our...