European Cluster Report - Creative and Cultural Industries
The European Cluster Observatory presents the 2nd in a series of priority sector reports, which analyse clusters in sectors of especial importance to the future of the European economy. The report covers the Creative and Cultural Industries. The study details the industries' status in 250 regions and shows where the industries' 6.5 million employees are clustered.
The authors are Professor Dominic Power (Uppsala University) and senior analyst Tobias Nielsén (Volante).
Executive Summary
- In 2006 European creative and cultural industries firms employed a total of 6.5 million persons.
- Regions with high concentrations of creative and cultural industries have Europe’s highest prosperity levels.
- Large urban areas and capital city regions dominate the creative and cultural industries, but some city regions do better than others. The super clusters London and Paris stand out, followed by Milan and Amsterdam.
- The creative and cultural industries are significant generators of intellectual property, in particular copyrights, and the largest creative and cultural industries regions are also among the largest employment centres for copyright-based industries.
- Among the regions of Europe which rank among the top 25 either by population or creative and cultural industries employment the following have a disproportionally large creative and cultural sector: Athens, Berlin, Budapest, Denmark, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Ireland, Inner London, Outer London, Maastricht, Madrid, Munich, Nijmegen, Oxford, Rome, Stockholm, and Stuttgart.
- As a share of the regional labour market, creative and cultural industries account for the largest shares in Inner London (5.95%), Stockholm (5.87%), Prague (5.81%), and Bratislava (5.01%).
- Most of the regions in the top 25 highest cultural and creative growth regions are small and medium sized regions. However, the following regions with labour markets over 1 million people were in the top 25 for annual employment growth: Seville (7.78%), Southampton (7.22%), Valencia (6.25%), Bilbao (6.51%), Galicia (5.45%), Lithuania (5.79%).
- The highest annual employment growth rates in the period 2001-2006 are found in Austria (6.2%), Lithuania (5.79%), Estonia (4.02%), Slovakia (3.88%), Latvia (3.87%), and Slovenia (3.76%).
- Creative and cultural industries manufacturing and production activities are the most regionally concentrated, and consumer oriented activities such as retail the least regionally concentrated.
- Further statistical work is needed to measure the true size of the creative and cultural industries. The data used in this report covers employees but not sole traders (i.e. firms with no employees but one active owner) or freelancers.
Europe’s Top 25 regions for creative and cultural industries employment clusters
|
Region |
CCI Rank |
Employment |
LQ |
|
Île de France (Paris), FR |
1 |
301,895 |
1.53 |
|
Inner London, UK |
2 |
235,327 |
2.19 |
|
Lombardia (Milan), IT |
3 |
195,848 |
1.28 |
|
West-Nederland (Amsterdam), NL |
4 |
195,646 |
1.56 |
|
Madrid, ES |
5 |
172,800 |
1.58 |
|
Cataluña (Barcelona), ES |
6 |
153,202 |
1.30 |
|
Danmark, DK |
7 |
124,352 |
1.28 |
|
Lazio (Rome), IT |
8 |
118,047 |
1.51 |
|
Oberbayern (München), DE |
9 |
97,050 |
1.59 |
|
Stockholm, SE |
10 |
86,239 |
2.16 |
|
Kozep-Magyarorszag (Budapest), HU |
11 |
82,429 |
1.73 |
|
Outer London, UK |
12 |
80,845 |
1.28 |
|
Berks, Bucks and Oxon (Oxford), UK |
13 |
80,628 |
1.82 |
|
Attiki (Athens), GR |
14 |
78,920 |
1.26 |
|
Oost-Nederland (Nijmegen), NL |
15 |
74,064 |
1.39 |
|
Andalucía (Sevilla), ES |
16 |
71,843 |
0.74 |
|
Ireland, IE |
17 |
70,602 |
1.18 |
|
Zuid-Nederland (Maastricht), NL |
18 |
70,543 |
1.28 |
|
Darmstadt (Frankfurt am Main), DE |
19 |
68,238 |
1.23 |
|
Piemonte (Turin), IT |
20 |
66,291 |
1.04 |
|
Köln, DE |
21 |
65,341 |
1.28 |
|
Etelä-Suomi (Helsinki), FI |
22 |
64,500 |
1.43 |
|
Veneto (Venice), IT |
23 |
63,024 |
0.89 |
|
Stuttgart, DE |
24 |
61,626 |
1.17 |
|
Berlin, DE |
25 |
60,736 |
1.53 |
Top 15 regions by CCI Focus.
|
|
CCI Focus |
Employment |
CCI Rank |
|
Inner London, UK |
5.95% |
235,327 |
2 |
|
Stockholm, SE |
5.87% |
86,239 |
10 |
|
Praha, CZ |
5.81% |
53,461 |
35 |
|
Bratislavsky kraj (Bratislava), SK |
5.01% |
21,776 |
87 |
|
Berks, Bucks and Oxon (Oxford), UK |
4.94% |
80,628 |
13 |
|
Hamburg, DE |
4.75% |
54,867 |
32 |
|
Kozep-Magyarorszag (Budapest), HU |
4.69% |
82,429 |
11 |
|
Oslo og Akershus, NO |
4.61% |
39,778 |
44 |
|
Oberbayern (München), DE |
4.32% |
97,050 |
9 |
|
Karlsruhe, DE |
4.30% |
55,794 |
30 |
|
Madrid, ES |
4.30% |
172,800 |
5 |
|
West-Nederland (Amsterdam), NL |
4.23% |
195,646 |
4 |
|
Berlin, DE |
4.15% |
60,736 |
25 |
|
Île de France (Paris), FR |
4.15% |
301,895 |
1 |
|
Lazio (Rome), IT |
4.11% |
118,047 |
8 |
Note: Focus indicates how large share of the region’s total employment the CCI sector constitutes.
