The geography of creative industries in Europe: Comparing France, Great Britain, Italy and Spain

This paper presents a cross-country analysis of the geographical distribution and nature of creative industries across four European countries: France, Great Britain, Italy and Spain. Local labour markets are used as territorial units of analysis to overcome the limitations of the region as unit of analysis and to better understand the type of creativity embedded in each country and territory. The results reveal that employment in creative industries tends to be more concentrated than in other sectors as well as the existence of specific national profiles with respect to the form of creativity and its spatial distribution.