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DELTAMETROPOLIS ASSOCIATION AIMS TO PROMOTE AND GUIDE THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DUTCH METROPOLITAIN REGION, KNOWN AS THE RANDSTAD-HOLLAND
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CULTURAL CLUSTERS: KULTUR = KAPITAL?! Randstad Holland
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Economic Performance of Creative Industries Economic performance of metropolitan areas in Gross Domestic Product. The estimated contribution to the economic performance of the creative industries is based on the share of companies in this sector and the total number of companies.
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Cultural Clusters – Kultur = Kapital ?! When examining the economic development of Randstad Holland, BerlinEmployees and the Ruhr Area, it becomes clear that in Increase 40 all three environments – an economically prosperous Randstad and an economic precarious Berlin and Ruhr Area – 30 creative industries establish and sustain themselves. The Berlin20 economy can generally be framed as structurally weak. In it the many creative entrepreneurs take up a big share.10 For the Ruhr Area statistics indicate a simliar overall situation: the economic performance of this region is low but, 0 unlike Berlin, the creative industries do not score much better. Considering that the Ruhr Area was Cultural Capital of -10 Europe in 2010, this is disappointing. -20 Policymakers have been developing strategic tools to attract % | year 2000-02 2004-06 2006-08 2008-10 the creative class and the creative industries for quite some
time, since creative industries are considered to be able to boost the urban economy. And indeed when looking at the facts and figures, we see that the creative industries are no longer newcomers, but rather show significantly increased employment numbers and a growing market share. In Randstad Holland the creative industries take up more than 11% of the regional economy, in Berlin nearly 16%. Moreover in both we observe that the creative industries generate a stable and high growth of companies that surpasses numbers in other economic sectors. In 2009, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Randstad Holland dropped about 15%, but the creative industries showed an increase in number of companies of over 40%. During the early 2000s, when the regional economy was still far behind its current performance, Berlin showed similar high growth rates in the creative industries. These numbers
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN RANDSTAD HOLLAND, BERLIN AND THE RUHR AREA Development of GDP in Percent *
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show the resilience of the sector, which might well be a payoff forIncrease the pioneering work of creative entrepreneurs. in Number of Companies 140 It seems that the creative industries are indeed able to take up an important role in the urban economy and even boost 120 it. This however is not the case in all areas. The Delta100 metropolis Association is currently looking into cultural 80 clustering (clustering of creative industries at a certain location)60and to which extend this is plannable and makeable. By taking Berlin as a case study, we aim to unravel the local and 40global processes involved in cultural clustering and draw20generic conclusions. 0
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AUTHORS Yvonne Rijpers and Isabel Neumann, research within the framework of project ‘Cultural Clusters – plannable and makeable?’ at the Deltametropolis Association in cooperation with the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL
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