In strictly economic terms, economic development is the process whereby the real per capita income of the country increases over a long period of time subject to stipulations that the people below an absolute poverty line does not increase, and that the distribution of income does not become...

This paper suggests a way to cluster Ukrainian regions by using economy and creativity-related multiparametric sets so as to reveal the main roles of players in cross-regional comparisons. Special attention was paid to an analysis of invaded regions since 2014 and 2022. The methodology is based...

SMEs, including cultural and creative firms, are encountering increasingly difficult obstacles in today’s competitive landscape. In particular, during the COVID-19 pandemic, these SMEs had to confront significant challenges that endangered their survival, requiring a shift in their business...

The term "volatility" applies to changeability: both that which can be measured, such as temperatures and stock prices, and that which cannot be easily measured, such as affects and emotions. Quantitative financial volatility has typically been studied quite separately from art, culture, and...

COVID-19 has a negative impact on business performance through anti-contagion regulations and consumers’ self-restraints. It is especially serious in specific service industries such as hospitality, tourism, entertainment, and cultural industries. Empirical studies have been carried out on the...

This study investigates the influence of government subsidies on recipients’ growth potential and subsequent performance in cultural and creative industries (CCIs). We find that CCI firms significantly increase their R&D expenditure after receiving direct government subsidies. Direct subsidy...

Surviving in a humanitarian disaster such as the COVID-19 pandemic is a big challenge for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in all industries. Furthermore, cultural and creative firms face additional challenges. Many of those firms have survived the effects of the pandemic by proposing...

Der Sonderfonds des Bundes für Kulturveranstaltungen ist das zentrale Instrument zur Unterstützung der Kultur- und Veranstaltungsbranche und dabei eines von mehreren Maßnahmen, die von Bund und Ländern zur Bewältigung der Coronapandemie aufgelegt wurden. Der Sonderfonds ist ein...

The COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdowns across the world have greatly affected an already vulnerable cultural economy and the structural precarity of many cultural workers. After documenting the impacts of the pandemic in the cultural sector and the effectiveness of governmental responses in...

The cultural and creative economy is an area increasingly attracting research attention and has been at the heart of discussions underway, in advanced (post-industrial) economies and emerging economies alike, on the design of a development and growth strategy. In the Greek context, the sector...

Back in 2012, I was talking with an acquaintance, who happens to be a copyright scholar, about a cease and desist letter that an artist had received from a publisher. The publisher objected to the artist’s display and sale of works that collaged cutouts from a comic book with new material...

The concept of the creative economy in the modern global world is filled with new meanings and acquires many qualitatively new features and properties. The article describes the development of creative economy models. A comparative analysis of the characteristics of the creative economy in EU...

With this paper, from the perspective of ethics at the workplace, we problematize the taken-for-granted assumptions embedded in the use of artistic freedom in creative processes. Drawing on the notion of inequality regimes (e.g. Acker, 2006) and using empirical material from a performing arts...

India's creative economy is large, but its untapped potential is even larger. This study provides the first reliable measure on the size of India's creative economy, explores the many challenges faced by the creative industries, and provides recommendations to make India one of the most creative...

India's creative economy is large, but its untapped potential is even larger. This study provides the first reliable measure on the size of India's creative economy, explores the many challenges faced by the creative industries, and provides recommendations to make India one of the most creative...

Der Sonderfonds des Bundes für Kulturveranstaltungen ist das zentrale Instrument zur Unterstützung der Kultur- und Veranstaltungsbranche und dabei eines von mehreren Maßnahmen, die von Bund und Ländern zur Bewältigung der Coronapandemie aufgelegt wurden. Der Sonderfonds ist ein...

This paper considers economic issues and trends in the rock and roll industry, broadly defined. The analysis focuses on concert revenues, the main source of performers ' income. Issues considered include: price measurement; concert price acceleration in the 1990s; the increased concentration of...

The current study explores the impact of cultural industries on economic and employment growth in China using the data from 2004Q1-2018Q4, taking the quarterly data of National culture and related industries value added, Employment and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the main variables. In this...