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The analysis of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) is both interesting and challenging. Their role as driver of economic development on the one hand and their contribution as bearer of social values makes them relevant for academic and institutional debates. However, the challenge faced by researchers is related to the founding nature of CCIs: creativity. All conceptual discussion of CCIs and their classifications have attempted in some way to detect creativity in CCIs. What resulted is that this concept is heterogeneous and difficult to capture. This chapter is aimed at reviewing in a critical way the main approaches to CCIs, using the way in which creativity is conceived as an interpretative key.

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    https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hcrj20/current.

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    The interrelation of innovativeness, novelty and creativity has also been conceptualised by Helizabeth Hirschman (1980), under the lenses of consumer behaviour.

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    The conceptual confusion generated by different definitions of CCIs has two main reasons according to Wyszomirski (2004). First, the implicit use of different criteria to identify which activities are deemed part of the CCIs; second, the dual objective of the studies: establishing a baseline to perform quantitative analyses and/or constructing a conceptual framework for the design and implementation of policies.

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    Official links for to the national studies available at: https://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/performance/.

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    The Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community, abbreviated as NACE, is the classification of economic activities in the European Union (EU); the term NACE is derived from the French Nomenclature statistique des activités économiques dans la Communauté européenne. Various NACE versions have been developed since 1970. Source: Eurostat.

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    The Creative Trident mixes the concepts of industries and occupations and its estimation across all industries would result in significant double counting due to overlaps (Centre for International Economics, 2009).

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    ATECO is the Italian classification of economic activities (ATtività ECOnomiche). The 2002 version is based on NACE Rev. 1.1.

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    For a detailed review of the theories of innovation in space cf. Capello (2019).

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    Institutions should be read according to North’s perspective, namely as a set of norms and “rules of the game” (North 1990).

  10. 10.

    The concept of cognitive proximity will be recalled in Chap. 40 when discussing the factors triggering the clustering of CCIs.

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Dellisanti, R. (2023). In Pursuit of Creativity in CCIs. In: Cultural and Creative Industries and Regional Development. Contributions to Regional Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29624-6_2

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