This book brings together a set of multidisciplinary contributions to investigate the kaleidoscope of European creativity, focussing on cultural and creative industries (CCIs) and the innovations connected with them. The two main questions that this volume aims to address are: How can we identify, map and define CCIs in Europe? And how do they contribute to innovation and sustainable growth?

Luciana Lazzeretti is Professor of Business Economics and Director of the Postgraduate Programme in Economics and Management of Cultural Goods and Museums at the Faculty of Economics, University of Florence, Italy.

Cultural and Creative Industries: An introduction Luciana Lazzeretti Part I Cultural and Creative Industries in Europe 1. The Geography of Creative Industries in Europe: Comparing France, Great Britain, Italy and Spain Rafael Boix, Luciana Lazzeretti, Francesco Capone, Lisa de Propris and Daniel Sánchez 2. Why Do Creative Industries Cluster? Luciana Lazzeretti, Rafael Boix and Francesco Capone 3. Creative Industries in Spain: The case of printing and publishing Rafael Boix 4. Creative and Cultural Industries in Austria Michaela Trippl, Franz Tödtling and René Schuldner 5. Creative Industries in the UK Lisa De Propris 6. Leisure, Culture and Experience Economy as Creative Strategy in the Periphery: Does North Denmark benefit from the experience economy? Anne Lorentzen 7. Creative Industries and Creative City Policy in Japan Masayuki Sasaki Part II Innovation, Creative Space and Symbolic Value 8. Complexity Geography and the Rise of the Green Creative City Philip Cooke 9. From Cultural Cluster to Creative Cluster: The case of art restoration in Florence Luciana Lazzeretti and Tommaso Cinti 10. Geographical Proximity and New Short Supply Food Chains Leïla Kebir and André Torre 11. Product Category Dynamics in Cultural Industries: Spaghetti Westerns' influence on American Western movie genre Gino Cattani and C. Moritz B. Fliescher 12. Cultural Activities in Territorial Development: The case of cultural and creative enterprises in the Swiss watchmaking industry Hugues Jeannerat and Olivier Crevoisier 13. Putting Creativity in Place: A relational and practice perspective Udo Staber 14. Design at Work: The interwoven effect of territorial embeddedness, social ties and business networks Marco Bettiol and Silvia Rita Sedita 15. The Importance of Gatekeeping Processes and Reputation Building in the Sustainability of Creative Milieux: Evidence from case studies in Lisbon, Barcelona and São Paulo Pedro Costa