Elle Xiaoyan Huang and Xueying Zou
This paper aims to understand how cultural and creative industries (CCIs) contribute to regional innovation.
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to understand how cultural and creative industries (CCIs) contribute to regional innovation.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper explores the process of CCIs contributing to regional innovation and assesses the accumulated outcome of this process.
Findings
The authors conclude that CCIs contribute to a city’s innovation involving five dimensions (time, space, tangible, intangible and division) and four phases (people, tool, collaboration and brokerage) and the contributions are accumulated into positive innovation outcome; however, a highly developed economy is relatively unsupportive of CCIs contributing to regional innovation.
Originality/value
The main contributions are that the authors configured the detailed process of CCIs contributing to regional innovation and the authors quantitatively measured the impact of CCIs on regional innovation, using the Porter diamond model and Shannon entropy to construct the CCI index.