CULTURAL CLUSTERS: KULTUR = KAPITAL?!

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DELTAMETROPOLIS ASSOCIATION AIMS TO PROMOTE AND GUIDE THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DUTCH MET-ROPOLITAIN REGION, KNOWN AS THE RANDSTAD-HOLLAND

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Randstad

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Ruhr Area

22000 2002 2004 006 2008 2010

2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010

Berlin

Randstad

Berlin

Ruhr Area

22000 2002 2004 006 2008 2010

Ruhr Area

2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010

Randstad

Berlin

Ruhr Area

22000 2002 2004 006 2008 2010

Randstad Holland

2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010

28 - 32 32 - 36 36 - 40

12 - 16 %

24 - 28

5 - 8 %8 - 12 %

GDP per Inhabitant in Thousand Euro

Share of Creative Industries on Economy

Economic performance of metropolitan areas in Gross Do-mestic Product. The estimated contribution to the economic performance of the creative in-dustries is based on the share of companies in this sector and the total number of companies.

Economic Performance of Creative Industries

20 - 24

201020082006

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AUTHORSYvonne 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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Cultural Clusters – Kultur = Kapital ?!

When examining the economic development of Randstad Holland, Berlin and the Ruhr Area, it becomes clear that in all three environments – an economically prosperous Rand-stad and an economic precarious Berlin and Ruhr Area – creative industries establish and sustain themselves. The Berlin economy can generally be framed as structurally weak. In it the many creative entrepreneurs take up a big share. For the Ruhr Area statistics indicate a simliar overall situation: the economic performance of this region is low but, unlike Berlin, the creative industries do not score much bet-ter. Considering that the Ruhr Area was Cultural Capital of Europe in 2010, this is disappointing. Policymakers have been developing strategic tools to attract 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 fi gures, we see that the creative industries are no longer newcomers, but rather show signifi cantly increased employment numbers and a growing market share. In Rand-stad 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 astable and high growth of companies that surpasses num-bers in other economic sectors.In 2009, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of RandstadHolland dropped about 15%, but the creative industriesshowed 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

show the resilience of the sector, which might well be a pay-off for the pioneering work of creative entrepreneurs. It seems that the creative industries are indeed able to take up an important role in the urban economy and even boost it. This however is not the case in all areas. The Delta-metropolis Association is currently looking into cultural clustering (clustering of creative industries at a certain loca-tion) and to which extend this is plannable and makeable. Bytaking Berlin as a case study, we aim to unravel the local and global processes involved in cultural clustering and draw generic conclusions.

SOURCESEurostat Data Explorer | Information und Technic Nordrhein-Westfalen |Regionalverband Ruhr | Economic Support Metropole Ruhr | Ministry ofInfrastructure and the Environment (LISA) | Senate Administration forEconomy, Technology and Research | Berlin Open Data | Projekt Zukunft

Developement of GRP in Percent

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GRP Ruhrgebiet

2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010

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40

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Increase Employees

Increase in Number of Companies

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20

40

60

80

100

120

140

% | year 2000-02 2004-06 2006-08 2008-10

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40

% | year 2000-02 2004-06 2006-08 2008-10

Increase Employees

Increase in Number of Companies

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100

120

140

% | year 2000-02 2004-06 2006-08 2008-10

Ruhr Area

RandstadBerlin

Development of GDP in Percent *

GDP Creative Ind. Total Economy

* GDP (Gross Domestic Product) development in Randstad Hol-land, Berlin and the Ruhr Area between 2000 and 2010.** Development of Number of Companies in Total and in the Creative Industries between 2000 and 2010.*** Development of Total Employment and Employment in the Creative Industries from 2000-10.

Development of Employment in Percent***

% 2002

Development in Number of Companies in Percent**

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