Alexander N, Akehurst G (2005) Identifying the role of services in the regional economy and servicing the identity of the region. Serv Ind J 25(4):421–428
Asheim BT, Hansen HK (2009) Knowledge bases. talents, and contexts: on the usefulness of the creative class approach in Sweden. Econ Geogr 85(5):425–442
Asheim BT, Boschma R, Cooke Ph (2011) Constructing regional advantage: platform policies based on related variety and differentiated knowledge bases. Reg Stud 45(7):893–904
[+]
Alexander N, Akehurst G (2005) Identifying the role of services in the regional economy and servicing the identity of the region. Serv Ind J 25(4):421–428
Asheim BT, Hansen HK (2009) Knowledge bases. talents, and contexts: on the usefulness of the creative class approach in Sweden. Econ Geogr 85(5):425–442
Asheim BT, Boschma R, Cooke Ph (2011) Constructing regional advantage: platform policies based on related variety and differentiated knowledge bases. Reg Stud 45(7):893–904
Barro RJ, Sala-i-Martin X (1991) Convergence across states and regions. Brook Pap Econ Act 1:137–158
Baumol WJ, Bowen WG (1966) Performing arts, the economic dilemma. The MIT Press, MA
Cáceres R, Guzmán J, Rekowski M (2011) Firms as source of variety in innovation: influence of size and sector. Int Entrepreneurship Manag J 7(3):357–372
Chapain C, Cooke Ph, De Propris L, McNeil S, Materos J (2009) Creative clusters and innovation: putting creativity on the map. Nesta, London
Commission European (2010) Green paper on cultural and creative industries: unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries. DG Education and Culture, Brussels
DCA (Department of Communications and the Arts, Australia) (1994) Creative nation: commonwealth cultural policy
DCMS (1998) The creative industries mapping document. DCMS, London
DCMS (2009) Creative industries economic estimates. Stat Bull
De Miguel B, Hervás JL, Boix R, De Miguel, M (2012) The importance of creative industry agglomerations in explaining the wealth of European regions. European planning studies (forthcoming). Available the version presented at DRUID 2011 conference Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, June 15–17
De Propris L, Chapain C, Cooke P, MacNeill S, Mateos-García J (2009) The geography of creativity. NESTA Interim Report, August
Drucker P (1969) The age of discontinuity: guidelines to our changing society. Harper and Row, New York
Eurostat (2009) ‘High-technology’ and ‘knowledge based services’ aggregations based on NACE Rev. 2. Eurostat, Luxembourg
Hotho S, Champion K (2011) Small businesses in the new creative industries: innovation as a people management challenge. Manag Decis 49(1):29–54
Lazzeretti L, Boix R, Capone F (2012) Why do creative industries cluster? An analysis of the determinants of clustering of creative industries. In Lazzeretti L (ed) Creative industries and innovation in Europe: concepts, measures and comparative case studies. Routledge (forthcoming April 2012)
Léo PY, Philippe J, Monnoyer MC (2010) Services and high skills: a new challenge for developing medium-sized cities. Serv Ind J 30(4):513–529
Leydesdorff L, Fritsch M (2006) Measuring the knowledge base of regional innovation system in Germany in terms of a triple helix dynamics. Res Policy 35(10):1538–1553
Leydesdorff L, Dolfsma W, Van der Panne G (2006) Measuring the knowledge base of an economy in terms of triple-helix relations among “technology, organization and territory”. Res Policy 35(2):181–199
Lucas RE (1988) On the mechanics of economic development. J Monet Econ 22:3–42
Machlup F (1962) The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States. Princeton University Press, Princeton
Más-Verdú F, Wensley A, Alba M, García Álvarez-Coque JM (2011) How much does KIBS contribute to the generation and diffusion of innovation. Serv Bus 5(3):195–212
Miles I (2001) Services innovation: a reconfiguration of innovation studies, PREST Discussion Paper Series, 01–05, Manchester
Miles I, Green L (2008) Hidden innovation in the creative industries. NESTA, London
Müller E, Zenker A (2001) Business services as actors of knowledge transformation: the role of KIBS in regional and national innovation systems. Res Policy 30(9):1501–1516
Müller K, Rammer C, Trüby J (2009) The role of creative industries in industrial innovation. Innovation: management. Policy Pract 11:148–168
OECD (1996) The knowledge based economy. OECD, Paris
Potts J, Cunningham S (2008) Four models of the creative industries. Int J Cult Policies 14(3):233–247
Power D, Nielsén T (2010) Priority sector report: creative and cultural industries. European Commission, Europe innova-European cluster observatory
Pratt A (2007) An economic geography of the cultural industries. In: Leyson A, McDowell L, Lee R (eds) An economic geography reader. Sage, London
Quah D (1996) Regional convergence clusters across Europe. Eur Econ Rev 40:951–958
Redondo-Cano A, Canet-Giner MT (2010) Outsourcing agrochemical services: economic or strategic logic? Serv Bus 4(3–4):237–252
Romer PM (1986) Increasing returns and long-run growth. J Political Econ 94:1002–1037
Stoneman P (2009) Soft innovation: towards a more complete picture of innovative change. NESTA, London
Sunely P, Pinch S, Reimer S, Macmillen J (2008) Innovation in a creative production system: the case of design. J Econ Geogr 8:675–698
UNCTAD (2010) Creative economy. Report 2010. UNDP-UNCTAD. Geneva, New York
Wernerheim CM (2010) The tendency of advanced services to co-locate and the implications for regional government policy. Serv Ind J 30(5):731–748
Wood P (ed) (2002) Consultancy and Innovation. Routledge, London
[-]